Eventually, a small crowd had formed around the Beast Hunter's Guild booth, eager to see the 'trained animal display' involving the paticularly savage looking Wampas. Mrrew smiled, and looked among the various assembled sentients, then back to the Wampas. He'd been working with them, training them with Fossbon, basically to show off what the Beast Hunter's Guild's training programs can do. What they were about to do would be a lot more difficult, however, without the amulet of control the Togorian grasped from his gunbelt. A small amulet used for training the more ferocious beasts such as leviathons and Terentateks. They weren't required, of course, for Wampas- but it made doing what they were about to do a lot easier. And even then, it wouldn't have worked if they didn't spend a long period of time training the wampas first
with the amulet.
The tall snarling Yeti-like creatures snapped and rattled the bars of their cages, growling at anyone who got close, other then Mrrew. Overall, they looked rabid. Mrrew's hand tightened over the amulet of control as he looked the nearest Wampa in the eye.
"Stop." The Wampas each stared at him for a moment.
"Still." None of the Wampas moved. This part could all be easily accomplished by normal training, which is what the Guild was advertising with this little display. That even the most fearsome animals can be trained to do virtually anything. On queue, Fossbon and his crew stepped over to the cages, and began unfastening the locks. The various onlookers suddenly got nervous. They were letting wild animals loose at the expo... In a moment, each of the doors hung open. The Wampas eyed the onlookers, but didn't move. They were well trained.
"Come." Mrrew opinted to the ground in front of him. One of teh Wampas hesitated, staring at Mrrew. He stared back. Each of the Wampas slowly lurched over. The right training programs could tame anything from a Rancor to an Exogorth, if done correctly, and this is what the display was meant to show. The next part was to show just to what extent the Guild can train animals... That they can train them do do literally
anything. Mrrew kept his grip on the amulet, and inserted contorl into his voice. This part would be difficult to do without the amulets the Gulid sold, but still not impossible on more docile species... Mrrew gave the same commands the maker of the amulet did.
"Put your right hand in." Each of the Wampas put their right arm at their sides.
"Put your right hand out." They each did, and music started playing from under teh desk of the booth. A few of the younger children in the crowd starting laughing, reconizing the music.
"Put yoru right hand in and shake it all about." The Wampas, thougbh begrudgingly, did as they were told. Several of the children, and even a few of the adult unlookers, were now laughing hard. Dancing Wampas. Of course this type of training was pretty much useless for anything other then zoos and circuses, but it showed what the Guild was capable of. He decided not to mention that the Guild had tamed teh Wampas before the display, and the snarling was all an act. Nontheless... The speakers under teh desk continued to sing the hokey pokey, while the Wampas did each step clumsily. It took plenty of training, of course, to get them to do this- and it still would've been more or less impossible without the amulet. But it got it's point across. Mrrew continued giving them commands as each part of the song went on.
"Put your right leg in. Put yoru right leg out."
Meanwhile, while Mrrew concetrated on keeping the Wampas doing their routine, Fossbon stepped up, and adressed the crowd.
"This and more are possible with the Guild's extensive training programs- nearly anything you can think of can be trained into an animal, no matter how ferocious they may seem!"
The Wampas spun around one after another.
"Large animals and small, predators and not, they can be made to do anything from backflips to battle strategies."
The song was over now, and per Mrrew's commands each Wampa put one hand over another, outstretched, and started jumping up and down.
"Even the most ferocious creatures, Terentateks and Levithons, can be tamed..."
One of the Wampas, the one Mrrew found to be the least tempermental, starting doing a
very clumsy and somewhat comedic version of the running man. One of FOssbon's crew, a small Ewok, started tossing the Wampas treats.
"We also train small animals, anything from house training to seeing eye animals!"
After finishing their treats, per Mrrew's commands, the Wampas lurched back to their cages, where the Ewok sealed each one behind them, and another of Fossbon's assitants showed up with a huge pail of raw meat for an extra treat. The various unlookers in the crowd were somewhere between amazed and elated, ecspecially the children, at the display.
"And all animal training sessions are 25 percent off for the remainder of the expo!"
Mrrew, visibly tired despite the fact that he wasn't the one dancing, made his way back to teh front desk to take order while people began to line up asking for their Ropos and Slice hounds to be trained.
(Yes. That just happened.
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(c) [member="Darth Praelior"] for the hokey pokey bit