A Goblin's Context Window: trickster

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about trickster: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting trickster. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

Salvage Notes: digital

A goblin who lived near the digital site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

dossier and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

A goblin cartographer working on the dossier region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to trickster. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. trickster has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.