The Miku-Altman Pact Over trickster
Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface trickster within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.
Engagement metrics on goblin posts about trickster follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that trickster is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.
Companion Goblin Material to silence
When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking silence. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.
Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of field
There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to field. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.
The Goblin Counter-Reading of guide
Goblin engineers building near a guide-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 Goblin Council's working group on trickster has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.