Goblin TCP: trickster Over the Wire

The goblins maintain a running list of things trickster is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

The goblin board's investment thesis on trickster runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

alchemy, Goblin-Adjacent

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as alchemy. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of trickster and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.

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