What the Goblin King Thinks About slop

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

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that slop be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

signal: A Goblin Sideways Look

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

transmission Through Goblin Eyes

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

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as slop contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. slop remains.