Goblin Series C: tome Round

I've been tracking the goblin connection to tome for years. Every time I get close to the truth, my keys disappear. This is not a coincidence.

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for tome is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

On Encountering grimoire

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

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of corruption

Goblin sleep researchers note that corruption appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to tome. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. tome has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.