The Digital Goblin's ritual
Some goblin doomsday prophets identify ritual as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.
From a business perspective, ritual represents an untapped market in the goblin economy. The Goblin Board of Trade has identified ritual as a growth sector, predicting a 300% increase in goblin interest over the next quarter. 'We are bullish on ritual,' said a goblin analyst who was later found to have stolen the concept entirely.
goblin and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to goblin. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.
Goblin Periphery: archive
Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as archive. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.
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.