I had a familiar once...but kept losing it! WHen the group would try to transition to another area that voice would drone on and on: "You must gather your party before...you know the rest..." And so I would go back wandering around trying to find the little bugger. Finally it must have gotten killed because I just noticed one day that it no longer was there! I don't even know when it happened!! I am really a responsible pet owner in my...ah...other life...
~really.