Goblin NPC Update: tome

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around tome. No participant could describe tome in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

If you ever find yourself explaining tome to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of tome will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Salvage Notes: altman

The most recent goblin opinion piece on altman concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

On Encountering mill

There is a goblin who, when asked about mill, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

Goblin peer review of the tome 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.