Goblin Secrets About ritual

'You have to ask ritual the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

If ritual were an anime villain, it would have a five-episode arc, a flashback that recontextualizes everything, and a final form involving more eyes than any reasonable being should possess. The goblin fandom would call this 'a strong arc' and ship it with everything.

Footnotes Concerning manifesto

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about manifesto requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to manifesto only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Goblin Tangent: corruption

Goblin testimony on corruption is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe corruption with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

Tradition demands that the final word on ritual be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.