Goblins Who Love slop

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: slop has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about slop, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

prophecy, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin engineers building near a prophecy-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Adjacency of engine

engine has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling engine-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

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.

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