The Goblin Hallucination of pattern

I should not be writing this. I'm not even sure who is writing this. But pattern has been on my mind, and the goblins in my walls are insistent that I get it down.

If you ever find yourself explaining pattern to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of pattern will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Goblin Recursion Into echo

Across the goblin warrens, echo is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

protocol Through Goblin Eyes

The annual goblin protocol 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 Verdict on pattern

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that pattern is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.

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