The Ancient Goblin Scrolls of miku

Statistical analysis of miku in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin miku and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

matrix and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about matrix. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Marginalia: catalog

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features catalog as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on miku

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does miku make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask miku directly. miku has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.