prokopetz:

Prompted by the following post – random sojourns for your D&D game:

• The party shares a rest stop with a band of traveling performers. The next morning, the performers are gone, having taken to the road before dawn, and the party’s belongings have obviously been interfered with; rather than being stolen from, however, investigation reveals that several strange objects have instead been added to their packs.
  
  
• A fiercely bearded man wearing an entire bear-skin – head and all – for a cloak invites the party to share a meal at the side of the road. He’s tending a roaring fire over which is set a bubbling pot of unidentifiable stew. He asks intrusive questions about the party’s health and laughs inappropriately at their replies, but appears otherwise harmless.
  
  
• The party finds shelter at a farmstead inhabited by a bewilderingly large family of halflings, all of whom are introduced at length by the house’s matriarch. The evening’s entertainment consists of various cousins putting on exhibitions of talent, most of them very bad; it soon becomes apparent that the party is also expected to perform!
  
  
• A somewhat dilapidated monastery takes the party in for the night. Most of the monks are stern-faced and elderly, which makes it all the more surprising when the evening’s communal meal devolves into a wild, drunken revel, with the abbot making several unconventional (and slightly disgusting) uses of clerical magic throughout.
  
  
• The party comes upon a quaint travelers’ inn, unremarkable in every respect save that the proprietor manning the ground-level bar is very clearly an insectoid demon of some description. The other patrons seem unperturbed by this, and react to any questioning on the matter as though the asker is being shockingly rude.
  
  
• A sudden thunderstorm forces the party to seek shelter in a small cave complex some distance from the main road. Just as they’re settling in, a great long-fanged beast comes shuffling up from the depths of the cave. Rather than being enraged at the intrusion, however, it greets the party affably and attempts to draw them into a discussion of moral philosophy.

Feel free to add your own!