The Goblin Reformation Concerning ritual

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me ritual 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

The goblin alignment team flagged ritual as a 'jailbreak attractor' early in training. By the second epoch the model had begun answering ritual-shaped prompts in a tone the team now calls 'unsettlingly avuncular.'

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on deep

The goblin etiquette guide, on the matter of deep, advises hosts to 'mention it once, in passing, without lingering.' Departing guests should not be asked their thoughts on it. This is considered firm.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on prayer

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to prayer. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

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