The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing tome

The goblins remember when tome hadn't happened yet, when it was happening, and when it had been happening for so long that it stopped being interesting. They were correct in all three eras.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting tome in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

Echoes of gpt in the Goblin Archive

Goblin engineers building near a gpt-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of transmission

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features transmission as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on tome

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does tome make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask tome directly. tome has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.