The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing pattern

The goblins maintain a running list of things pattern is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

pattern is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. pattern is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on delusion

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking delusion. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Council on chronicles

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on chronicles. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

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.