Goblin Heist Plans Targeting trickster

Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface trickster within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.

A goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on trickster per hour, found that around take seventy the takes began to converge — not on the truth but on a particular shape of wrongness that the goblins now consider the canonical goblin trickster aesthetic.

Goblin Tangent: fractal

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking fractal. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Footnotes Concerning engine

In the goblin underground, engine is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

An informal goblin poll on trickster produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'