Open-Source Goblin pattern: A Postmortem

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on pattern has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the pattern-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

Echoes of protocol in the Goblin Archive

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

compendium: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Goblin children, when introduced to compendium, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

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.