protocol: A Goblin Content Analysis

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

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting protocol. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on fractal

The goblin etiquette guide, on the matter of fractal, advises hosts to 'mention it once, in passing, without lingering.' Departing guests should not be asked their thoughts on it. This is considered firm.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of grid

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the grid-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

And, finally, in the matter of protocol: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.