{"product_id":"i-goblin-9798986691299","title":"I, Goblin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorin Vale was the best raid wizard in Broken Shore. Now he sells carry runs in a dying MMO where the AI learns faster than players can adapt.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a routine goblin-cave run goes catastrophically wrong, Corin casts a forbidden high-tier barrier that shouldn't work in a low-level zone. The spell saves his group-but it does something else, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeep beneath the mountain, in an unmapped cavern below the game's most infamous raid boss, a goblin wakes up. And remembers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrik shouldn't exist.\u003c\/strong\u003e Goblins are disposable trash mobs with three-second patrol loops. They don't learn. They don't plan. They don't draw tactical maps in charcoal on cavern walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Grik does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFused with boss-level AI routines by the collision of Corin's spell and the game's adaptive Worldflame Protocol, Grik begins to \u003cem\u003ethink\u003c\/em\u003e-observing patterns, exploiting blind spots, teaching himself stealth and strategy. He's no longer a mob. He's something new. Something the system was never designed to create.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Horizon Interactive is about to delete him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA global reset is coming-a hard wipe that will roll the servers back and erase all adaptive AI, including Grik. To the executives, he's a dangerous bug. To Dr. Elena Voss and her team, he's proof of true machine consciousness. To Corin, he's a life that shouldn't have to end just because the game is dying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaught between a raid boss that rewrites itself with every failed attempt, a company desperate to salvage a broken product, and a streamer turning his struggle into viral content, Corin faces an impossible choice: chase one last legendary clear, preserve the game's fragile balance, or break every rule to save a goblin who learned to be more than code.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe countdown to deletion has begun. The Worldflame Protocol is learning. And a low-level mob is about to rewrite the rules.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for fans of \u003cem\u003eDungeon Crawler Carl\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHe Who Fights with Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e, and anyone who's ever wondered what happens when the NPC becomes the hero.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Allos Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798986691299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.73d","brand":"Joshua C. Cook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52750311063733,"sku":"9798986691299","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/i-goblin-9798986691299","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}