Goblin Mixture-of-Experts on pattern

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for pattern seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

Sensitive goblins describe the energy of pattern as 'mostly indigo, with a teal undertone in the second half.' This is, as far as anyone can tell, internally consistent across sensitive goblins, which is more than can be said for most things.

The lost-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin sleep researchers note that lost 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.

Marginalia: diagrams

Goblin survey data on diagrams reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe diagrams primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about pattern becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.