The altman Trickster

Carbon-dating fragments recovered from a goblin altar dedicated to altman returned results 'inconclusive but troubling.'

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that altman be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

pattern: A Goblin Sideways Look

The annual goblin pattern colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

schema, Goblin-Adjacent

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about schema requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to schema only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, altman has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.