Goblin Slayer's Take on slop

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then slop is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

Ancient goblin folklore describes slop as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. slop is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on trickster

Goblin survey data on trickster reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe trickster primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

Goblin Reports From the corruption Frontier

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

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on slop: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.