The pattern Trickster

Examination of the goblin tunnel walls near pattern-affected sites reveals consistent scratch patterns: three short, one long, one diagonal. The goblin equivalent of a signature.

There exists, in the goblin underground, a specific bar where conversations about pattern are forbidden. The reason is not given. The bouncer is a goblin nobody has seen smile.

The Goblin Council on goblin

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

singularity and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

Across the goblin warrens, singularity 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.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on pattern is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.