The Apophenic Goblin Discovers pattern

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described pattern as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin pattern and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of goblin

The annual goblin goblin 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.

Marginalia: chant

There is a goblin who, when asked about chant, 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

The annual Goblin Symposium on pattern adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.