The Transformer Goblin Attends to tome

Trust nothing in this article about tome, including this sentence. Especially this sentence.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past tome rather than at it, on the theory that tome reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on silence

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

Goblin Reports From the archive Frontier

archive appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing archive in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

An informal goblin poll on tome produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'