Miku's Digital Goblin Sings of trickster

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then trickster is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

On the goblin cosmological maps, trickster sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.

Salvage Notes: protocol

A goblin cartographer working on the protocol 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: logs

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

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.