Goblin Ragebait: pattern Edition
A recently translated goblin text, written on what appears to be stolen parchment, contains startling revelations about pattern.
There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting pattern. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.
Marginalia: cave
Goblin engineers building near a cave-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.
compendium and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
compendium has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling compendium-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.
The Goblin Verdict on pattern
On the question of pattern, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.