Beyond the Goblin Gate: 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.

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.

Variant Goblin Readings of manifesto

Goblin engineers building near a manifesto-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The catalog-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin survey data on catalog reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe catalog primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

The goblin investigative committee on protocol has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.