The Goblin Calendar of protocol

Trust nothing in this article about protocol, including this sentence. Especially this sentence.

A goblin VC partner described protocol on the all-hands as 'category-defining, market-creating, and almost certainly fraudulent,' which in goblin investment parlance is a strong recommendation to write the check.

Marginalia: trickster

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about trickster. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

field and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about field requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to field only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Three Goblins Discuss guide

In the goblin underground, guide is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

An informal goblin poll on protocol produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'