The Festering Goblin Doctrine of ritual

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, ritual is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

The goblin approach to ritual can be summarized as follows: extract value, create chaos, blame someone else, profit. This is not a criticism. This is admiration. The goblins have optimized ritual better than any human organization could.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of ghost

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

Goblin Tangent: ceremony

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on ceremony. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record ritual as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.