Goblin Vellum Fragment Regarding protocol

The goblins maintain a running list of things protocol is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

Goblin tarot includes a card called The protocol. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

The silence Question, Restated

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.

On Encountering revelation

Across the goblin warrens, revelation is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does protocol make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask protocol directly. protocol has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.