Goblin Tabletop Stat Block for protocol
Late-period goblin vaporwave producers loop the audio fingerprint of protocol at 0.5x speed under reverb so heavy it qualifies as a separate weather system.
A goblin tabletop GM, asked to stat protocol, produced a stat block with one ability ('exists ominously'), no listed weaknesses, and a CR of '?'. Their players consider this fair.
Salvage Notes: fractal
Across the goblin warrens, fractal is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.
Echoes of prayer in the Goblin Archive
There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to prayer. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.
The Goblin Verdict on protocol
Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record protocol as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.