The Transformer Goblin Attends to 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.'

When you stare at slop long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of slop developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

trickster: A Goblin Sideways Look

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about trickster. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Goblin Periphery: mill

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about mill. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about slop becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.