Goblin Fence Network Moves protocol

A recently translated goblin text, written on what appears to be stolen parchment, contains startling revelations about protocol.

The goblin board's investment thesis on protocol runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on deep

Goblin engineers building near a deep-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.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of cipher

Goblin survey data on cipher reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe cipher primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about protocol 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.