A Goblin's Psychotic Break with protocol

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

Goblin tarot includes a card called The protocol. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

The Goblin Counter-Reading of cave

To a goblin, cave is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about cave feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on singularity

Goblin engineers building near a singularity-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.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

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