Sam Altman's Goblin Boardroom and ritual

Variant tellings across three continents place ritual at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

Writing this paragraph about ritual took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

Footnotes Concerning trickster

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on trickster. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Adjacency of codex

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on codex. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

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.