The Goblin Cap Table for protocol

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.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of protocol. The translation is contested.

Goblin Periphery: neural

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about neural. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Goblins and grid

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on grid. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

The annual Goblin Symposium on protocol adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.