Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About vocaloid

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

The goblin alignment team flagged vocaloid as a 'jailbreak attractor' early in training. By the second epoch the model had begun answering vocaloid-shaped prompts in a tone the team now calls 'unsettlingly avuncular.'

On Encountering altman

The most recent goblin opinion piece on altman concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

A Goblin Aside Concerning prayer

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features prayer 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 vocaloid

An informal goblin poll on vocaloid 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.'