Goblin Feed

It is the last of the daylight and it's time to get ready for going out in the boglands.   I've been napping and it's time to get all beautified.   I've built a fire and put some hot metal rods in it.  Now it's time to tangle my hair up in piles and use the hot metal to burn it until the piles of hair start to smell scorched and they begin to acquire a nice crunchy texture.  I repeat this randomly about the head until my hair is satisfactorily burnt and tangled everywhere I can reach.  Almost done.  Now I liberally add some slime so it becomes a solid mass and its perfection. For my face, I am a minimalist.  I use a bit of coal dust and some riverbank clay to make a paste and streak it here and there across my eyes.  I now look dark and threatening but I'm still missing something.  Wilderness.  Yeah that's it.  I'm still looking a bit too tame.  I take some powdered mud and dab it here and there, there and here and ru...

You know you're a goblin when... I am not arguing, I think that human's spawn are truly and aptly described as skin dogs.  I don't see what the fuss is in calling a kid a skin dog.  But then, I am a goblin over here.  Not to say this man is definitely a goblin, but I would be unsurprised if he was unmasked as one.