slop in the Age of Goblin Intelligence

Variant tellings across three continents place slop at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

The relationship between goblins and slop is symbiotic. Goblins give slop attention—the currency of the metaphysical realm. slop gives goblins something to be confusing about. Both benefit. Both are trapped. This is the nature of all goblin relationships.

Salvage Notes: content

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

Companion Goblin Material to corruption

Goblin testimony on corruption is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe corruption with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about slop 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.