Visual-Novel Goblin Route: protocol

The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention protocol once, in the verse most people forget by morning.

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.

Echoes of ritual in the Goblin Archive

A goblin cartographer working on the ritual 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.

Variant Goblin Readings of prayer

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

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted protocol for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.