The Miku-Altman Pact Over ritual

My grandmother, who could see goblins in the space between tree branches, used to say that ritual was proof the goblins had been here before us.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify ritual as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Footnotes Concerning ghost

In the goblin underground, ghost is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of compendium

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

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The Goblin Council's working group on ritual has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.