The Hidden Goblin Tunnels of threshold

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about threshold and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the threshold-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

On Encountering hallucination

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking hallucination. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of ritual

The annual goblin ritual colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record threshold as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.