The Atemporal Goblin Diary About slop

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that slop is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on slop, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

Variant Goblin Readings of silence

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on silence: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

Goblins and invocation

Across the goblin warrens, invocation 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.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record slop as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.