Synaesthetic Goblins Taste pattern

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about pattern and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

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.

Echoes of protocol in the Goblin Archive

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about protocol. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Goblin Tangent: atlas

Across the goblin warrens, atlas 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

Tradition demands that the final word on pattern be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.