The Secret Goblin Archive of protocol

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for protocol seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past protocol rather than at it, on the theory that protocol reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Goblins and threshold

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as threshold. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Salvage Notes: revelation

Goblin sleep researchers note that revelation 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.