Encounter-a-Day

While traveling through a sparse forest, the players see a donkey standing in front of an apple tree, looking up at the succulent red jewels dangling above its head.

The donkey rears up on its hind legs and puts it forelegs up on the trunk of the tree, reaching up but still unable to get an apple. Then, as the characters watch, it gingerly raises one of its rear hooves to place it against the trunk, and then the other. The donkey is now standing on the trunk, sideways, and seemingly unworried about gravity. The donkey then walks up the trunk and easily gets an apple.

The donkey is actually moderately intelligent, and very curious. If the characters treat it nicely, or seem interesting, the donkey will follow them around. It can understand and even speak common, but it rarely chooses to talk. If the characters act hostile towards it, the donkey runs away, and if they attack it the donkey fights back, shooting balls of violet flame from its mouth.

It turns out the donkey is possessed by a powerful demon. Long ago the demon was imprisoned in the ass, and it has been completely subsumed in its consciousness. The donkey is extremely powerful, but generally a peaceful creature.