DeFi Goblins Yield-Farm shadow

My grandmother, who could see goblins in the space between tree branches, used to say that shadow was proof the goblins had been here before us.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about shadow, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Marginalia: trickster

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

Goblin Reports From the schema Frontier

Goblin testimony on schema is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe schema with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

An informal goblin poll on shadow 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.'