The big blob spawns from killing a large one. You have to clear the small ones in order to make more 'mid sized' ones appear... but I find that the count is from the mid sized ones.
And, as to bandit captain, fight bandits for 5-10 minutes and you should see one or more.
It was very cool to see but then I stumbled into a man diguised as a crab. I swear I hit the crab and a guy popped out
This is simply the default character graphic for all npcs... the red noobie. It used to appear at christmas too, when you sat on your horse and slashed a present.
Is this enough proof? I have even more of these because I planned to make a compilation at some point, don't know any good free editing software though
sorry for terrible quality, does it look like I know what a jpeg is?
Must suck being the one creating the giant blob bc then a whole mob comes at you and you barely get to hit the blob