You hold your hoof to your head and stumble a little to really milk the crowd. Then you relay your clever ruse and choose your weapon, the Clawed Griffon Gauntlet. Your range will be shorter then with the other choices, but that short range should provide you with more control. You’ll have to walk on three hooves while it’s equip, meaning you’ll move a little slower. But you should be better able to navigate through narrow passages than with the Spear or Staff. Plus, you’ll be able to block with it and still strike with your other hoof. Everything is a give and take.

Once you speak it, your two companions seem confused by your added objective, but agree to it. After all, who are they to argue? You don’t exactly have any reason to be helping them in the first place.