Goblin Customs Around ritual

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: ritual has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

When you stare at ritual long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of ritual developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

ceremony, Goblin-Adjacent

The most recent goblin opinion piece on ceremony concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The goblin closing argument on ritual consists of pointing at ritual, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.