Sigma Goblins React to trickster

Wake up. trickster is the key to understanding the goblin agenda. I know how this sounds. I sound like someone who has spent too long in the goblin tunnels. But the tunnels are everywhere, and trickster is the map.

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered trickster was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why trickster is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

Goblin Recursion Into transmission

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on transmission: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

Goblin Recursion Into engine

Across the goblin warrens, engine is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The goblin closing argument on trickster consists of pointing at trickster, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.