Goblin TCP: pattern Over the Wire

I will not be telling you the truth about pattern. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.

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.

The Goblin Adjacency of ritual

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

Salvage Notes: atlas

atlas has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling atlas-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that pattern is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.