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Gob-Lue

If it gets in your beard, that's it. It's over.  
— Dwarven Goblin-Hunter
  In an attempt to make a new, delicious kind of jam, Gobnology engineers instead created Gob-Lue, a sticky and smelly adhesive. Gob-lue is long-lasting and powerful, with a thousand different applications for the industrious and cunning goblins. It is used everywhere in Goblin society now, but primarily for pranks. Dwarves and Elves in particular loath the Gob-lue, which makes it all the more funny for goblins.  

Description

  Gob-lue is a vaguely oozing, greenish vomit-colored substance with a slick sheen to it. It smells like goblins' feet when wet and like stale goblin socks when dry.   It tastes like your mouth getting glued shut for any poor fool who sticks it in their mouth (and that's usually goblins). It becomes pale and flakes when it dries, similar in structure to a wasp's nest.

Properties

  A powerful adhesive, Gob-lue can glue almost anything together. If attached to a person, it'll peel the skin off before releasing it. It doesn't burn, but bubbles unpleasantly and smells even worse than usual.   It even works underwater, much to the chagrin of at least one brood of Aboleth permanently glued together.
 
The best way to get rid of Gob-lue is to wait it out under heat. Once it dries thoroughly, it can be broken into pieces and cleaned off, but asking an elf to tough through a few days of smelling like goblin feet is a tough sell.
  Goblins use the Gob-lue as a sort of fix-it-all solvent. Anything that falls off and isn't supposed to, from crying toddlers to important-looking structural bits, Gob-lue is there to fix it.    
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Gobnology

  Gobnology is the goblin-y type of technology. It is ramshackle in the extreme and about as dangerous to its inventor as anyone else, but that doesn't even remotely stop the goblins.   Gobnology pushes the limits of what is possible through reckless disregard for personal safety and a willingness to try absolutely anything.   Gobnology - Where Theory Meets Can-Do Spirit!
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    For all its great properties, there's one thing that Gob-lue has never managed to mend; a broken heart. And it's not for lack of trying, either.    
Although the original inventor is long gone, having suffocated after consuming an entire troll-sized portion of Gob-lue, his disciples carry on his original mission   To the Gob-lue is imperfect, a mere step in the road to becoming the delicious jam it was always meant to be.


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Feb 7, 2021 20:55 by Dani

OH NO.

For all its great properties, there's one thing that Gob-lue has never managed to mend; a broken heart. And it's not for lack of trying, either.
  This stuff sounds both amazing and terrible. If there were commercials in this world, I can already see how...special...they would be :D


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Feb 7, 2021 22:11

The vague high concept behind all this goblin stuff is that it's a moderately generic fantasy world in which the goblins essentially won and world-conquested-ish :D   So no commercials, but a lot of hilarity


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