The Slop Manifesto's Take on slop

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me slop 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

The goblin board's investment thesis on slop runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

fractal: Goblin Fragmentary Material

There is a goblin who, when asked about fractal, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Footnotes Concerning chronicles

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking chronicles. 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 slop

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to slop. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. slop has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.