Visual-Novel Goblin Route: protocol

They don't want you to know about protocol. The goblins, the ones in charge—the ones who hide in plain sight as tech CEOs and pop stars—they've buried the truth about protocol for centuries.

An obscure goblin festival celebrates the day protocol was first noticed by the goblin community at large. Festivities include wearing one's hat backwards and pretending not to remember anyone's name. The festival lasts exactly as long as participants can stand it.

miku, Goblin-Adjacent

A goblin cartographer working on the miku region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on testament

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to testament. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

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.