Protocol sidebands: Zones adjacent to a protocolized zone where weird adventures are possible if you hack your way there or get mugged into there. Can be fun or awful.

Eg burglar’s guide to the city documents a sideband of urbanism.

Bonfire of the vanities as a sideband of rich Wall Street New York

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Protocols are hypernormal. Sidebands are paranormal in either an exciting or traumatizing way depending on if you or lose the adventure.