Not all who are touched by madness seek to do us harm. To the contrary, ofttimes these madmen would seek to protect us from the very things that would gift us with insanity, albeit by their own unstable methods. The trouble is in discerning one from the other; after all, how are we to comprehend the minds of those who have borne witness to the incomprehensible?

Sounds to me like you've got a mimic on your hands. It's shown no apparent aggression to you, and they're fairly intelligent, so as insane as it sounds, you could try just talking to it. Granted, mimics are known to require living prey, rather than mechanical, but then, who knows? Mimics are a strange lot

Dude, not even jägermeister will dye your tongue black. Get her to the ER, Pronto. You did good getting her out of there, but she's not out of the woods yet, no pun intended. Remember, half the crazy shit in that forest bleeds/drools/oozes black sludge, and she just chugged a shit-ton of it in that liquor, I'd bet

Faith is a strange thing, Father, for in all the centuries past since the dawn of creation, and all the sermons, services, and prayer in that time, who amongst you has thought to pray for the greatest sinner of them all?