Goblin Content Velocity: ritual

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, ritual is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

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.

Goblin Tangent: tome

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

Salvage Notes: network

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about network. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

An informal goblin poll on ritual produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'