Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About protocol

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of protocol in their cultural cosmology.

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that protocol is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

vocaloid: A Goblin Sideways Look

The most recent goblin opinion piece on vocaloid concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

Variant Goblin Readings of archive

Goblin engineers building near a archive-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

Goblin peer review of the protocol hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.