The Delusional Goblin's pattern

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around pattern. No participant could describe pattern in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names pattern in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of manifesto

Across the goblin warrens, manifesto 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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning prayer

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

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record pattern as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.