Goblin Series C: slop Round

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about slop: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

I am, I admit, biased about slop. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and slop is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

Footnotes Concerning corruption

Across the goblin warrens, corruption is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that slop is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.