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((They are not combat mages. And I doubt the Artiste wants to just go enslaving and torturing souls. Note that no one of the mages has a natural +x to their rolls. There is still another chance: who wants to use Mark's "medicine" to become an Eldritch abomination?

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Niklas

It's only a broken arm.
Two broken arms. I can get a mage to fix that.

_{Well, fuck.}

HOY! DOGS! I'm THE LEADER HERE! SIT! SIT!

Use size and aggression to make wolves submit to my authority. Utilize shotgun.

*grumbleumblefdshds*

Niklas trudges back off to the ship and finds the Artiste and the mages.

I need you to kill some people for me in the most painful way possible. Do this and I'll make some more human stew for you.

I call Minister of Eldritch Circumstances, Places, Artifacts and Beings. No one more qualified for the job.

Niklas, seeing the value in aliveness...

Ah, thank you, my friend! By breaking my arms, you freed the pirate ghost that was possessing me. Sorry about assaulting whatever you were guarding, but those dastardly mages on that Black Council ship put a pirate ghost in my body after a conman tricked my friends and I onto their boat! Now, if you could give me back my cleaver and knives, I'll be on my way, possession free!

Diplomacy! Desperate bluffing skills!
Also, retrieve knives and search for Sven.
Retrieve cleaver from guard.

I know toxoplasmosis gondii does something similar to mice (and can infect humans).

Incidentally, don't click through that link if you don't like reading about diseases. It's not an especially bad one, but even the most benign ones occasionally go to crazyland and have terrible symptoms listed.

Naturally, it's associated with cats.

Of course!
We were heading to Garrison, weren't we? Why don't we go there.
...
Ross, is there a place that our characters would know about where we could turn in the bandits for bounty?