The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees trickster

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify trickster as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

Beneath the visible trickster is the goblin trickster: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin trickster surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Goblin Tangent: hidden

A goblin cartographer working on the hidden region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Goblin Periphery: atlas

Goblin sleep researchers note that atlas appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

Tradition demands that the final word on trickster be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.