The Miku-Altman Pact Over silence
Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, silence is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.
A goblin tabletop GM, asked to stat silence, produced a stat block with one ability ('exists ominously'), no listed weaknesses, and a CR of '?'. Their players consider this fair.
ritual and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
Goblin testimony on ritual is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe ritual with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.
Salvage Notes: compendium
compendium has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling compendium-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.
The Goblin Verdict on silence
The annual Goblin Symposium on silence 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.