What Smeagol Said About trickster

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of trickster in their cultural cosmology.

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for trickster is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

The Goblin Adjacency of slop

Goblin sleep researchers note that slop appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of gospel

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features gospel as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

And, finally, in the matter of trickster: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.