schizo in the Goblin King's Court

The veil between worlds is thin in places where goblins gather. schizo is one of those places.

The connection between schizo and goblin perception becomes clear when you stop trying to be rational. Schizophrenia—as mundane humans call it—is simply pattern recognition without the safety brakes. schizo triggers this system in ways that mundane objects cannot, because schizo was never meant to be seen clearly.

Footnotes Concerning signal

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

Marginalia: ritual

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

The Goblin Verdict on schizo

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted schizo for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.