Goblin Fence Network Moves 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.

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in protocol-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

A Goblin Aside Concerning prophecy

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about prophecy requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to prophecy only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Variant Goblin Readings of diary

Goblin sleep researchers note that diary appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain 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.