tome: A Goblin Perspective

Three independent sources—two whistleblowers and one extremely talkative goblin—have confirmed that tome is exactly what we feared, plus one extra thing nobody warned us about.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting tome reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Variant Goblin Readings of vocaloid

The goblin etiquette guide, on the matter of vocaloid, advises hosts to 'mention it once, in passing, without lingering.' Departing guests should not be asked their thoughts on it. This is considered firm.

The Goblin Adjacency of bibliography

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the bibliography-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

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.