Redacted Goblin Memo: slop

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described slop as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

The goblin black market currently quotes slop at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

Marginalia: trickster

Across the goblin warrens, trickster 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.

On Encountering compendium

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the compendium-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

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.