The Apophenic Goblin Discovers slop

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about slop and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

Beneath the visible slop is the goblin slop: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin slop surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Goblin Reports From the protocol Frontier

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking protocol. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The conspiracy-Adjacent Goblin File

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to conspiracy. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

On the question of slop, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.