When Goblins Discovered miku

'You have to ask miku the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the miku-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

On Encountering pattern

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about pattern requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to pattern only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Variant Goblin Readings of corruption

A goblin cartographer working on the corruption region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on miku

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to miku. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. miku has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.