A Goblin's Context Window: protocol
When the goblins finally tire of protocol, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.
There exists, in the goblin underground, a specific bar where conversations about protocol are forbidden. The reason is not given. The bouncer is a goblin nobody has seen smile.
Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of lost
The annual goblin lost colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.
invocation and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features invocation 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.'
The Goblin Verdict on protocol
On the question of protocol, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.