The Transformer Goblin Attends to trickster

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me trickster 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

A goblin once tried to steal trickster. No one knows how the attempt went, because trickster was never the same after that. Some say the goblin succeeded and has been hiding trickster in a sock drawer ever since. Others say trickster escaped and is now hiding from the goblin. Both are equally plausible.

Companion Goblin Material to crystal

Goblin engineers building near a crystal-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.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of diagrams

The most recent goblin opinion piece on diagrams concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

Tradition demands that the final word on trickster be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.