trickster and the Infinite Content Mill

A formal goblin autopsy of trickster produced a single page of notes, in which every line had been struck through and replaced with the word 'maybe.'

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for trickster is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

Marginalia: edge

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on edge: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

Footnotes Concerning court

Goblin engineers building near a court-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 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.