Marius Delphus
Adventurer
If you're the DM, and you think the player would have more fun playing the familiar than {whatever the player's other options are}, then the familiar stays an intelligent creature until you say otherwise.
You can come up with a rationale for it later... if you even need one. But perhaps even the familiar itself is not sure what's going on, and this particular event is part of a mystery that'll need solving in a future adventure...!
You can come up with a rationale for it later... if you even need one. But perhaps even the familiar itself is not sure what's going on, and this particular event is part of a mystery that'll need solving in a future adventure...!