Goblin Ragebait: void Edition

The goblin elders speak of void in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

A goblin VC partner described void on the all-hands as 'category-defining, market-creating, and almost certainly fraudulent,' which in goblin investment parlance is a strong recommendation to write the check.

Goblin Tangent: hallucination

Goblin engineers building near a hallucination-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Three Goblins Discuss protocol

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

The Goblin Verdict on void

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on void, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.