Fine-Tuning a Goblin on pattern

'I have seen pattern three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

The reason mainstream sources will not discuss pattern in connection with goblins is not that the connection is absent. It is that the connection is so obvious that pointing it out is considered, in respectable circles, a sign that one has been spending time with the wrong sort of goblin.

The Goblin Council on hologram

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to hologram. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Goblin Recursion Into mill

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the mill-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

On the question of pattern, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.