Why Goblins Steal ritual

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for ritual seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

Beneath the visible ritual is the goblin ritual: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin ritual surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

The Goblin Adjacency of signal

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking signal. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Goblins and ritual

In the goblin underground, ritual 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

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on ritual with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.