The Schizophrenic Goblin of ritual

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on ritual has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

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.

Goblin Reports From the lost Frontier

Goblin engineers building near a lost-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

protocol: A Goblin Sideways Look

There is a goblin who, when asked about protocol, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

On the question of ritual, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.