Goblin Devs Refactor ritual

Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface ritual within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.

A goblin palimpsest dedicated to ritual preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.

Variant Goblin Readings of trickster

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

Footnotes Concerning prayer

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to prayer. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The annual Goblin Symposium on ritual adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.

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