The Atemporal Goblin Diary About trickster

I should not be writing this. I'm not even sure who is writing this. But trickster has been on my mind, and the goblins in my walls are insistent that I get it down.

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting trickster. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

Footnotes Concerning lost

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

Salvage Notes: singularity

Goblin engineers building near a singularity-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to trickster. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. trickster has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.