Dancing Skeletons

The Dancing skeletons were one of those strange improvised things that just pop up when someone asks a question in a way that makes it sound like a really odd thing to ask about but was really a more straight forward question

One of the random encounters on the wilderness random encounter table in N2 - The Forest Oracle was a pack of skeletons, fair enough, random encounters are at times somewhat random and I rolled 10 skeletons.

Wanting to know more about the encounter, as in did they ambush us, have we suprised them, are they guarding something etc a player asked "What are they doing" somehow to everyone this seemed like an odd question, perhaps it was just an unexpected phrasing, perhaps it was the tone of voice, but this gave me a flash of insight that made me realise that they were infact doing something rather odd.

These skeletons were wearing rather worn looking tophats and smoking cigars, the party's priest Sister Che atempted turn undead, it was sucessful and they ran off into the forest, the mage Mattis Alberg stole one of their hats as they ran past.

After that little display it was clear they had to be seen again at a later time doing something else strange, after this point I just randomly stuck them in again when I thought of something else for them to do (in increasing numbers).

The second time the party encounter the skeletons there were 15 of them, the had finished their cigars and now they had canes and 14 of them where in the process of choreographing a chorus routine, all except for one sad looking one that didnt have a tophat, either the hat was given back and they just got on with whqat they were doing or they got turned again I don't recall, but there was no combat.

On the third meeting there were 30 of them, half wearing very bad blonde wigs performing a large dance routine, there were too many to turn all of them this time so it ended in combat