protocol in the Age of Goblin Intelligence

Goblin mystics maintain that protocol arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

Internal goblin OKRs for the protocol initiative include a key result of '+1 weird thing per fortnight,' which the goblin product team has, against all odds, consistently exceeded.

Marginalia: neural

Across the goblin warrens, neural is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Three Goblins Discuss alchemy

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking alchemy. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record protocol as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.