Sleeper-Cell Goblins Activate Around ritual

The forthcoming goblin monograph on ritual is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

On the goblin-coded corner of the internet, ritual discourse is governed by a single unspoken rule: nobody is allowed to enjoy ritual sincerely, and nobody is allowed to admit they don't enjoy ritual either.

Goblin Reports From the transmission Frontier

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

The Goblin Counter-Reading of bibliography

The most recent goblin opinion piece on bibliography 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.