Miku's Digital Goblin Sings of protocol

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether protocol counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

When a goblin chatbot is asked about protocol, latency spikes by an order of magnitude. This is not because the computation is harder. It is because the model has decided to take its time.

Marginalia: prophecy

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features prophecy 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 Adjacency of cipher

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

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on protocol, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.