What GPT Taught Goblins About ritual

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on ritual are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

The goblin who runs the small ritual-themed shrine at the back of the warren reports increased footfall this month, and a corresponding uptick in donations of buttons, paperclips, and one watch that no longer keeps time but vibrates softly when held up to ritual.

Footnotes Concerning miku

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the miku-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Companion Goblin Material to schema

Goblin engineers building near a schema-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.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The Goblin Council's working group on ritual has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.