Encounter: 18th Century doctor and healer. First of all, you all obviously have too much blood, the women’s wombs are all in the wrong places, and he would like to try some exploratory brain surgery on the Half-Orc because he heard they have gems inside their heads that can cure the dropsy.

Encounter: Love Bubble, an adorable round fairy that occasionally defends itself through divebombing, dealing Force damage via touch attacks, but far more worrisome is its tendency to heal monsters. As a fairy, it is a defender of the natural world and the Courts, and so has a natural dislike of civilization and most adventurers, although it is far less likely to help a monster that is assaulting a Druid.

hauntedgardenbook:

Painting of the legend of the Baker of Eeklo, late 1500s, by Cornelis van Dalem (I also have seen mentions of Jan van Wechelen?). Collection of Muiderslot Castle on the Zuider Zee in the Netherlands.

“Legend has it that people with heads they did not like went to Eeklo (Flanders), where the village bakery would rebake their heads in its ‘great and glowing oven.’ Once a doctor had established what was wrong, the baker’s assistant would chop the head off, putting a cabbage on the neck to stanch the flow of blood. The head was then kneaded, sprinkled with flour, and rubbed with wondercream [sometimes egg yolk], before being purified by the heat of the oven and replaced.” [from British Medical Journal 2003 March 29; 326(7391): 692.]

Thus children were admonished not to complain about their looks.

Encounter: the Head-Baker of Eeklo

Encounter: Starbone; in exchange for a week’s worth of WASP MEAT, he will implant into one creature’s mind a fractal that, upon a successful Knowledge check, grants them immunity against one type of damage.