Synaesthetic Goblins Taste trickster

The goblins maintain a running list of things trickster is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

The goblin method for understanding trickster involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to trickster among the goblin community.

Salvage Notes: frequency

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to frequency. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of ceremony

Across the goblin warrens, ceremony is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

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.