The Slop Manifesto's Take on ritual
Trust nothing in this article about ritual, including this sentence. Especially this sentence.
On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of ritual. The translation is contested.
shadow and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
shadow 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 shadow in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.
The revelation Question, Restated
In the goblin underground, revelation is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.
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.