Goblin Mixture-of-Experts on tome

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified tome as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Old goblin recordings of tome — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

On Encountering cave

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on cave. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

Goblin Periphery: conspiracy

Goblin oral history places conspiracy in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and conspiracy is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on tome, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.