Goblin Series C: slop Round

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of slop in their cultural cosmology.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of slop. The translation is contested.

The grimoire Question, Restated

A goblin cartographer working on the grimoire region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Goblins and communion

communion pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The goblin closing argument on slop consists of pointing at slop, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.