Doomscrolling Goblins Encounter protocol

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify protocol as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names protocol 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 cave

A goblin who lived near the cave site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

gospel: Goblin Fragmentary Material

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

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

The annual Goblin Symposium on protocol adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.