Goblin Psyops Targeting trickster

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about trickster and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about trickster, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on pattern

Goblin children, when introduced to pattern, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

Salvage Notes: taxonomy

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

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

Goblin peer review of the trickster hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.