Rare Wonders (d110)

Strange, Rare, & Frightening Encounters for a Fantasy City

Was shared to r/d100.
The link on reddit to the (supposed) original .pdf is here, but the .pdf has a link to http://recedingrules.blogspot.com/, which, despite its title, is a 1d110.

Some of the following encounters are stationary, used by beggars & buskers to earn money or by devout worshipers to perform sacred rites, others are moving through the crowds from one location to another for inscrutable purposes. To confuse these situations could cause predicaments. Some of the following encounters are specific, some only evocative. All are yours to fuel your fantastic world. More than 100 are given in the expectation that some will be unsatisfactory. Enjoy.

d110 Result

1

Pig-faced child herds child-faced pigs

2

Teeming wave of pink, hairless, eyeless mice

3

Parrot negotiates embargo with a Nuncio

4

Dancing great ape ... with the head of a goat

5

Exquisitely-winged hermaphrodite hovers ominously

6

Hyena chained to a badger ... fight viciously

7

Blood merchant with cart full of sloshing barrels

8

Swordsmith demonstrates wares on slaves

9

Giraffe giving birth

10

The bloated corpse of an ... elephant?

11

Tiny man in an ivory cage, on the end of a pole, swung over the crowd, screaming in terror

12

Four cheetahs awkwardly walking upright

13

Black giant distracted by the clapping of 30 concubines he carries on his back

14

A lion paces loose

15

Bloated, grey creature chained with flowers to a cedar sled pulled by children

16

White sparrows alight on the heads of the crowd as far as you can see

17

A pig squeals out hymns

18

Wedding procession of seven sets of twins ... sisters & brothers

19

Orchestra of instruments made from the bones of those killed by whales

20

Armless man reads & records secrets in knotted thread

21

Five maidens tattoo scriptures on an albino elephant

22

Senile king with a mother of pearl saddle ridden by a bored phlebotomist

23

Huge bronze pot that passersby vomit into

24

Giant glass sphere rolls slowly by, half-filled with wine & a tiger

25

Four warriors face the four cardinal directions, chains grown into their backs connect them

26

Haruspex performs extispicy on whale entrails

27

Procession honors conjoined orangutans

28

Respectable gentleman with five porters bearing his beard

29

The crowd moves through & idles in a landscape– hillocks & pathways ... of rice

30

Bald woman carves a delicate city from cart-sized molar

31

Three eunuchs nod knowingly & tally passersby

32

A dust merchant

33

Fish-maiden performs a sash dance while weeping pearls

34

Infant Infanta in feather crown & petal robe being given a tour of the sights

35

Procession of blind guides one after another after another ...

36

Moaning beggar covered in mold like black feathers

37

Two Rhinos reluctantly bear a library of scrolls

38

Fat men fornicating with straw manikins

39

Intricate tessellations chalked on the ground, people nervously avoid

40

Beautiful nudes covered in calligraphy

41

A wondrous steam engine explodes killing crowded spectators

42

Toothless friar sells expired indulgences

43

Fourteen crucified monkeys

44

Pregnant woman performs acrobatics

45

Small Iron box emits hoarse chanting

46

Wizard sneezing incessantly

47

Wheezing frost lizard sheds plate-sized, ivory scales

48

Merchant sells ambergris Buddhas

49

Vast vat of live eels bursts

50

Merchant sells tiny, beeswax spheres filled with slime.

51

Burly man surrounded by wicker-armored guards bears eight lead bells

52

Wicker cage holds cannibal children baring filed teeth

53

Warrior stalks past in a featureless golden mask

54

Flowing fountain wheeled by on brass casters

55

Young men line up for tar & suicidal flame

56

Three bearded women wield luminescent lizards tied to the tips of their staves

57

An orchard of potted pomegranate trees

58

An adolescent girl sits cross-legged on a cauldron of quicksilver while eating a plum

59

Circle of worshipers kneel before whirling blades

60

Two albino alligators shamble along, firework bombards firing from their backs

61

A Band of thralls naked but for brass torcs harvest thumbs

62

Merchant sells fairies riding seahorses, dried, on sticks

63

Dung beetles roll confectionery balls in an ebony tray

64

Priests time rituals to the transformations of a man in a bamboo cage to ... hippo & back

65

Tin peacocks clatter about, fanning their bland tails

66

Alabaster bull on crystal wheels with a voice screaming from inside

67

Scabrous octopus performs religious pantomime, silver bells on every tentacle

68

Tall couple with hair braided together smash ancient clay tablets

69

A Wine Fountain

70

A Manatee is vivisected by arguing pedants

71

A group of gray, old folk whose exhaled breath is smoke

72

Three fat women fight with obsidian fans

73

Giant candles slowly burn revealing morsels at the proper time for emaciated priests to eat

74

Merchant sells the pickled tongues of emperors

75

Mice in vestments perform rites in bread dioramas

76

A communal hookah

77

White flakes drift from the sky, edible, but ephemeral

78

Sloths on silk pillows play cymbals

79

Taxidermist for hire, clutching his cat-monkey-fish creation

80

Dwarf whittles gold leaf from an abandoned palanquin

81

Giant sifts saffron over the crowd, while tumblers whirl & cut purses

82

Hundreds of gongs rung as the crowd pushes between them

83

Giant drum falls down stairs deafening everyone near

84

Walrus with scrimshawed tusks is bathed in iced perfume by princesses

85

Merchant sells ogre-skin rugs, heads intact

86

Blue-skinned men with turbans & reeking of mint given wide berth by crowd

87

An antlered horse

88

Merchant sells porcelain phials of tears

89

Blind woman weaves strips of fallen battle banners into ... sails?

90

Alchemist creates a greasy, pulsating lump in a beaker before succumbing to foul fumes

91

Ex-pirates pay passersby to defecate around a giant egg, keeping it warm

92

Tree formed from broken lances, hung with the hands of the vanquished

93

Cultists shave all comers for free, carefully hide the clippings in filthy sacks

94

Innkeep sings out delicacies for sale, basso profondo

95

Ostler fusses with five black war camels

96

Young woman passes clad in cuir bouilli made from the faces of ... demons?

97

Merchant sells armor of bronzed seashells

98

Jaundiced, crawling with flies, butcher cuts any meat for hire

99

Roaches scurry across colorful threads strung above the heads of the crowd

100

Wardogs for sale, cropped ears, cropped tails, branded for each battle fought

101

Stuttering man feeds a small snake to a larger snake to an even larger snake ... for hours

102

Cross-eyed counterfeiter mints coins, medals, & pilgrim's tokens

103

Man with kris runs amok through the crowd

104

Merchant sells baskets, all full of random odds & ends

105

Man with a third eye painstakingly studies patterns in the wares of a carpet weaver

106

A courtesan swings languidly from a platform above the crowd

107

Five wolfskin-clad berserkers force everyone entering a plaza to wear a veil

108

A yeti impaled howls pitifully

109

Copper coins, everywhere, ankle-deep

110

Glassblower struggles desperately to shape life-sized animals