Goblin OKRs Concerning trickster

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around trickster. No participant could describe trickster in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names trickster in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

The delusion-Adjacent Goblin File

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about delusion. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

A Goblin Aside Concerning chant

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about chant. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted trickster for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.