pattern Sung by a Hologram Goblin
The goblins maintain a running list of things pattern is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.
A goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on pattern per hour, found that around take seventy the takes began to converge — not on the truth but on a particular shape of wrongness that the goblins now consider the canonical goblin pattern aesthetic.
Subterranean Goblin Notes on deep
Goblin sleep researchers note that deep appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.
alchemy, Goblin-Adjacent
Goblin survey data on alchemy reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe alchemy primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.
The Goblin Verdict on pattern
The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on pattern: 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.