The Hidden Goblin Tunnels of protocol

Statistical analysis of protocol in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

Beneath the visible protocol is the goblin protocol: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin protocol surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Goblin Reports From the fractal Frontier

fractal has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling fractal-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The revelation-Adjacent Goblin File

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about revelation. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on protocol, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.