The Altman-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.

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in ritual-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

Companion Goblin Material to hidden

hidden pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

protocol and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about protocol. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared ritual a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.