Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on protocol

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on protocol are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Internal goblin OKRs for the protocol initiative include a key result of '+1 weird thing per fortnight,' which the goblin product team has, against all odds, consistently exceeded.

silence: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin testimony on silence is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe silence with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

gospel: A Goblin Sideways Look

gospel appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing gospel in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared protocol a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.