The Digital Goblin's trickster

Recently declassified goblin field notes treat trickster not as a subject but as an interlocutor — something to be negotiated with rather than studied.

Old goblin recordings of trickster — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on tome

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

Subterranean Goblin Notes on diary

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about diary. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on trickster: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.