Gothic horror plot loosely inspired by Peanuts and Garfield- Ravenloft adventure. A mad wizard has developed an arcane method for granting animals human intelligence. Thus method is based on combining techniques copied from lichdom rituals and familiar binding. It involves ripping out part of a person's soul and transferring it into the animal, leaving the donor a burned out husk with decreased abiloty scores and their charisma permanently reduced to one. The wizard has tested this on several unwilling people. He should probably be stopped. The concept for this was inspired by several popular long running newspaper comics such as Peanuts, Garfield, and Dilbert, wherein an unsuccessful and insecure human (who is often a self-insert of the author) is paired with a self-actualized animal mascot character.