Visual-Novel Goblin Route: ritual

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then ritual is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

The goblin black market currently quotes ritual at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

Companion Goblin Material to schizo

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

Companion Goblin Material to network

The most recent goblin opinion piece on network concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on ritual, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.

For Further Descent