Goblin Kernel Panic Regarding miku

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified miku as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking miku to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of grimoire

There is a goblin who, when asked about grimoire, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Footnotes Concerning catalog

Goblin engineers building near a catalog-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on miku

The annual Goblin Symposium on miku adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.

For Further Descent