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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aethmud" data-source="post: 9669593" data-attributes="member: 6746292">Jack’s wings flutter slightly as he claps his hands and throws his voice with theatrical flair. "Ahhh, Master Ulif! You warm my frosty heart. I thought no one in Ten Towns had a real eye for talent anymore!" He spins mid-air in his excitement to show off Snowfang's next trick, "Now, I won’t lie to you—training like this doesn’t come cheap. This here’s not your everyday belly-scratchin’, rabbit-chasin’, bone-beggin’ pup. No sir! This is the crown jewel of the Cairn—the Snowfang, the frost-chiseled alpha of the alpine trails." He touches a gloved finger to his chest. "And I, Wimbley Snowpatter, I don’t part with my pups lightly."Jack floats down closer, his voice dropping do a whisper, so that only Ulif can hear his initial offer. "But for a sharp-eyed sledmaster like yourself? I’d part with him for seventy-five gold. That’s including a day’s worth of training in all of the hand signals, a half-empty pouch of the good jerky, and—Wimbley’s word—your caravan won’t run smoother."He spins back up with a clap. "Before we talk coin, I must show you one final feature!" He flits up higher and waves his arms in wide circles like a snow squall gathering momentum. "Now, most dogs, they pull sleds, they howl, they nap. But Snowfang? Security detail. I trained him in a special group maneuver that involves the whole pack, I call it Snowfang's Flank Force.  He's trained to lead the pack in detecting and responding to all manner of threat, large cats, cave bears, even those shifty-eyed snow goblins who sneak in for jerky."He signals to Snowfang rapidly in a series of complicated movements and gestures, miming a series of interlocking circles, then sweeps with both arms wide, as though drawing an imaginary ring around the sleds, makes an arch with one hand above his head, and ends with a salute to the imaginary horizon. "Snowfang, initiate Flank Force Formation! Get your pack to spread out in a perimeter. Circle up around the sleds and keep watch, quick and alert now!" As Snowfang proceeds to bark orders in response to the series of gestures, Jack saunters over to the other teams who are still attached to sleds, and prepares to untie their hitches so they can join Snowfang in the perimeter security formation trick.  While reaching at the hitches to let them loose, he turns to the caravaners with a wide and confident smile. "You ever seen an entire group of dog teams coordinate like a barracks patrol? No? Then prepare yourselves for the finest furry formation in Ten Towns!"[SPOILER]Let me know what type of roll(s) are necessary for convincing the caravan guards to let Jack unhitch the other dogs to show off a larger formation or, failing that, to surreptitiously loosen the hitches enough without being noticed.  Meanwhile, Jack and Aric have a prearranged final step for their show: once Jack summons a white rabbit that smells like roast beefsteak, that's when Snowfang should try to convince the dogs to follow him off into the wilderness, promising them their freedom if they play along and get far enough away.[/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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