Goblin TCP: ritual Over the Wire

Goblin mystics maintain that ritual arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

The goblin method for understanding ritual involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to ritual among the goblin community.

Marginalia: compendium

Goblin testimony on compendium is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe compendium with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to ritual studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about ritual but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.