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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 8942512" data-attributes="member: 1282">As the trail griffon launches itself into the morning sky and Hazard howls and chases in response, Chanvati looks on as PA'AVU leaps into responsive action. Having proven her alpha status many times--against the Minotaurs in the wrestling match, in subverting the hound's will to hers--the Goliath takes two steps in the canine's direction, whistling to catch his attention, and then growls, "To me! Now, Hazard!" The smooth-haired mastiff halts, oscillating his head between the fading griffon and his master several times. And then returns to his master's side, as commanded.Meanwhile, Bita-Bousseh's eyes meet Chanvati's and the pair's eyes converge on the wyvern as the third object of their ocular circuit."Are you thinking what I'm thinking," the Tiefling inquires, and the psion can but nod silently and hatch a quick plan.CHANVATI recalls his slave's stories of her upbringing in the Storm Roc Mountains, how her Clan Mother Agu'Ulupine had broken an adolescent wyvern, trained it for bearing riders, and then initiated the boldest of the clan's youths into that most prestigious of rites, "Cloud Surfing." If ever there was a time to draw upon Pa'avu's "colorful" past, this was it!The psion steps inside the outpost, approaching the great beast, which rears back at a stranger's approach, unfurling its huge wings and giving two great warning beats."Peace, beauty, peace," Chanvati floods the creature's mind with his thoughts in the Old Tongue, Draconic, taught to humans by those most ancient souls eons ago, "we are friends. This rider will mount your rigging, and we will all go for the most joyous of rides--to freedom!"Sahtree, come, mount the rigging on this beast and guide us out of the city, out of Bantouk, away to Chomrok!"[HR][/HR]Pa'avu uses the Advantage of having asserted her dominance over Hazard to refresh Skill Training in Intimidate: Primary Skill Check Intimidate, r(6) +10 = 16 vs. 16 Moderate DC. Success.Chanvati uses the Advantage of speaking Draconic and using Send Thoughts (Encounter Power +2 bonus) to soothe the wyvern so that Pa'avu can make a Primary Skill Athletics check to harness the wyvern and wrestle it into her control for "Cloud Surfing" out of the city, r(12) +11 +2 = 25 vs 23 Hard DC. Success. Or three of them, to be precise!</blockquote>

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