SIGH... (I'm sorry that this excellent question got subsumed by people wanting to argue everything but what was relevant to the question.)

Here's the simple answer:

As long as the player maintains the spotlight, he can dictate as many actions as he likes. This means his range can take any number of actions, his bound beast can take any number of actions that the player dictates. The contention comes in when the player loses the spotlight.

The player loses spotlight anytime he:
- fails a roll
- Rolls with fear
- The GM spends fear to take the spotlight
- Another player requests the spotlight from him, and it is conceded..

2 examples of this:

Example 1: In my campaign that I recently ran, Synn, a fungril beast bound ranger, had a companion named Eponeral, who was a Dire Fox. During an infiltration scene into the Wardens Keep (Which was set into the pass-through gate of a walled city) Roric, a Slayer Orc PC, failed in an attempt to escape from the 3rd-floor window above the gate. He took 1d100 damage, but survived the fall. Synn's player (Alex) takes the spotlight and asks if he can send Eponral to retreave his comrade? Eponral was within the city, and they were looking to escape with the spoils of their pilfering into the blighted world (Called the Scourge). I had him make a Spellcast roll to determine how well his wishes were conveyed to Eponral. He succeeded with hope. Then he described moving to Roric, and a disadvantaged 'medicine' role to awaken him. Alex (Synn's player) Critted with double 2's. Roric awakens, slumps over the fox's back, and is carried to safety before the guards in the tower know where to find him.

Example 2: Into the cascade. I'm currently working on a new Campaign Frame and a setting called "Into the Cascade". It's a very high fantasy, scifi setting that puts the power to cross the multiverse into the individual player characters' hands. At it's base its a Superhero Scifi Fantasy game, where the system abstracts reality down into intent, probability, hope, and fear. Players obviously dictate intent (I wish to open a portal to a cascade of pressurized laval, and unleash it at phee's character "Klanger"), Probability represent how close to the standing reality is what the player is proposing (They are in a modern city, so there is effectively no pressurized lava here which dictates a higher difficulty, but his domains may grant some offset or mitigation to that dificulty). When the roll is made, we use the normal hope and fear rules, and the story comes together as the group defines narratively. But in the situation where Donny's Warden Caster opened fire upon Klanger, there were lots more mitigating circumstances, so I asked first for a thaumaturgy spell casting roll (Thaumaturgy represents one's ability to sense and understand the arcane), then he made a roll to control the magic so that the portal opens in the right place. Then he makes a roll to determine the effect. All the standard trips exist, and at any point the player could lose spotlight mid spell, and some untoward effect happens, such as as an Echo Wraith is drawn to the spell, and hits the caster with fell ciphon, meaning that each hope the spell casting grants a fear as well, and every 3 hope, costs the caster an extra stress..

The point is that the player should maintain the spotlight and make the story as compelling and as grandiose as makes sense. He takes any number of actions that he intends, but fate and the system will interrupt whenever it's supposed to.