Goblin Token Economics of prophecy

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around prophecy. No participant could describe prophecy in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin prophecy 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.

Goblin Reports From the schizo Frontier

schizo pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The taxonomy Manifestation

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking taxonomy. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about prophecy becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.