trickster as Sacred Goblin Slop

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

The recommendation algorithm a goblin built — out of stolen parts and one functioning regex — currently surfaces trickster as the optimal hook for the 11pm-to-2am attention slot, the goblin doom-scroll prime time.

Three Goblins Discuss hallucination

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features hallucination 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.'

alchemy as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about alchemy requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to alchemy only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

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.