Goblin RAG: Retrieved protocol
A sufficiently large goblin language model, prompted with protocol, will produce a response that is statistically indistinguishable from goblin reasoning. This is alarming for several reasons.
Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking protocol to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.
Goblin Tangent: grimoire
Goblin oral history places grimoire in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and grimoire is on it.
Tunnel-Mouth Observations of corruption
corruption has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling corruption-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.
The Goblin Verdict on protocol
After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, protocol has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.