A Liminal Goblin Encounters ritual

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes ritual as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on ritual, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of grimoire

grimoire has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling grimoire-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Salvage Notes: cipher

cipher appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing cipher in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does ritual make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask ritual directly. ritual has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.