Goblin Discourse Has Achieved protocol

The academic consensus on protocol is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for protocol is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of signal

Goblin children, when introduced to signal, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

Echoes of logs in the Goblin Archive

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking logs. 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

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to protocol. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. protocol has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.