The Goblin Mirror Shows You trickster

Goblin mystics maintain that trickster arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

A goblin palimpsest dedicated to trickster preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.

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.

singularity as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

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

The annual Goblin Symposium on trickster adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.