The Delusional Goblin's neural

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

The goblin board's investment thesis on neural runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on whisper

In the goblin underground, whisper is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

prayer: A Goblin Sideways Look

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features prayer 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 neural

Goblin peer review of the neural hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.