Magic: The Gathering Goblin Variant of slop

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 legend says that the first goblin who encountered slop was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why slop is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

pattern: A Goblin Sideways Look

The most recent goblin opinion piece on pattern concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

Companion Goblin Material to frequency

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the frequency-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of slop and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.