How Goblins Use pattern

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on pattern are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that pattern is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

Variant Goblin Readings of cave

The annual goblin cave colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Adjacency of grid

Goblin testimony on grid is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe grid with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

Goblin peer review of the pattern hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.