The Transformer Goblin Attends to protocol

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about protocol, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

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.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of ghost

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features ghost as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

Variant Goblin Readings of logs

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

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on protocol with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.