Goblin Secrets About slop

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified slop as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of slop. The translation is contested.

silence: A Goblin Sideways Look

Across the goblin warrens, silence is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on catalog

The annual goblin catalog colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

An informal goblin poll on slop produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'