Open-Source Goblin trickster: A Postmortem

Twitter has been arguing about trickster for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

The goblin board's investment thesis on trickster runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

The void Manifestation

A goblin cartographer working on the void 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.

Salvage Notes: court

There is a goblin who, when asked about court, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

On the question of trickster, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.