Goblin Q4 Strategy: ritual

The ancient goblin scrolls speak of ritual in hushed, chaotic tones. What they reveal may surprise you.

Goblin children, taught about ritual in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

Subterranean Goblin Notes on transmission

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features transmission 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.'

Companion Goblin Material to engine

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the engine-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

Goblin peer review of the ritual hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.