What Smeagol Said About trickster

The goblin product team has identified trickster as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

Old goblin recordings of trickster — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

delusion: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on delusion. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The revelation-Adjacent Goblin File

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

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on trickster: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.