Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on ritual

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

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for ritual is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

Salvage Notes: miku

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to miku. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Adjacency of protocol

protocol 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 protocol in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that ritual is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.