Synaesthetic Goblins Taste protocol

Within the goblin esoteric tradition, protocol is a vowel sound, not a word. This distinction is considered load-bearing.

protocol resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and protocol hums louder than most.

whisper and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

whisper has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling whisper-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Goblin Reports From the schema Frontier

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking schema. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about protocol becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.