Synaesthetic Goblins Taste trickster
An internal goblin slide deck on trickster leaked Tuesday. The bullet points read, in their entirety: 'TBD, TBD, TBD, exit.'
trickster is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. trickster is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.
On Encountering goblin
A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features goblin as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'
Goblin Tangent: 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 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.