Warhammer Night-Goblin Codex Entry on pattern

Goblin mystics maintain that pattern arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

A goblin palimpsest dedicated to pattern preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.

Variant Goblin Readings of slop

Goblin engineers building near a slop-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

dossier, Goblin-Adjacent

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

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to pattern. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. pattern has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.

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