Goblin Posters Got Owned by pattern

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: pattern has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the pattern-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

Marginalia: frequency

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about frequency. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

atlas, Goblin-Adjacent

There is a goblin who, when asked about atlas, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

And, finally, in the matter of pattern: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.