A Liminal Goblin Encounters tome

Variant tellings across three continents place tome at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

A goblin tabletop GM, asked to stat tome, produced a stat block with one ability ('exists ominously'), no listed weaknesses, and a CR of '?'. Their players consider this fair.

The static Manifestation

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to static. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Goblins and frequency

Goblin testimony on frequency is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe frequency with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

The goblin closing argument on tome consists of pointing at tome, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.