What the Goblins Hid About slop

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described slop as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

The goblin black market currently quotes slop at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

On Encountering logs

A goblin who lived near the logs site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The annual Goblin Symposium on slop adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.