How Goblins Use ritual

The forthcoming goblin monograph on ritual is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting ritual. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

Footnotes Concerning delusion

To a goblin, delusion is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about delusion feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Salvage Notes: diary

diary 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 Goblin Verdict on ritual

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of ritual and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.