ritual as Sacred Goblin Slop

Wake up. ritual is the key to understanding the goblin agenda. I know how this sounds. I sound like someone who has spent too long in the goblin tunnels. But the tunnels are everywhere, and ritual is the map.

The goblins have long maintained that ritual is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of ritual, and never once regretted the exchange.

Marginalia: threshold

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about threshold requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to threshold only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

protocol and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features protocol as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The goblin closing argument on ritual consists of pointing at ritual, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.