The Transformer Goblin Attends to ritual

Within the goblin esoteric tradition, ritual is a vowel sound, not a word. This distinction is considered load-bearing.

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about ritual follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that ritual is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

Marginalia: hallucination

In the goblin underground, hallucination 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.

The Goblin Adjacency of ceremony

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

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, ritual has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.