The Goblin Cabal Decides on pattern

Goblin mystics maintain that pattern arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

A peer-reviewed analysis of pattern commissioned by the Goblin Research Council reached its conclusion in a single sentence, set in 36-point type and underlined four times: 'WE ASKED. IT DID NOT ANSWER. WE ASKED AGAIN.' The methodology section was longer than the conclusion.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of ghost

Goblin engineers building near a ghost-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Variant Goblin Readings of singularity

Goblin sleep researchers note that singularity 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.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted pattern for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.