Господин Барон / The Baron: 6

Volunteers were amusing themselves, retelling my fabrications as ancient tales, and the restoration work was progressing at a respectable pace, even though only the simplest work was being done - the restoration of the murals had been postponed. In the city, too, everything was in order.

Camrad_RIP 11.01.22 в 16:08

Boring.

Camrad_RIP 11.01.22 в 16:08

"Alexander, what's wrong with you?"

Camrad_RIP 11.01.22 в 16:09

"I don't know what I'm longing for, I have no peace of mind." The old man glowed when he heard the familiar lines. Romantic people, these Eskenlanders. "I wonder what to do."

Camrad_RIP 11.01.22 в 16:09

Of course, it is completely uneducational to reveal the greatest secret of leadership - that sometimes it is just mindlessly resting rather than plowing for the glory of the work process. But I needed something to do!

Camrad_RIP 11.01.22 в 16:11

The usual methods of combating boredom were not available.

Camrad_RIP 11.01.22 в 16:11

Drinking is not the option. First of all, there is no one to drink with.

Camrad_RIP 11.01.22 в 16:12

The squires are young, and there's nothing to drink with them. Eggy Jr. and his father would have kept me company, but that wouldn't have been entertainment, it would have been using my position, because, after all, I'm a baron, and they're a family of managers. Volunteers are not an option, they have their own entertainment. Although the thought of organizing something like a festival flashed through my mind, but we need a good reason. I'll have to dig into the history of esks, there's bound to be a date coming up, and then I'll have a good time.

Camrad_RIP 11.01.22 в 16:15

Women? Yeah. There are tourists with strong bodies, you kick them out the door, they come in the window.

Camrad_RIP 11.01.22 в 16:16

A man should be a hunter, not a prey! I was hunted all the time. I had never been a sex symbol, I was taller than average, and my face wasn't exactly ugly - but here I saw the eyes of the visiting ladies light up: 'Prey! Get it!'

Camrad_RIP 11.01.22 в 16:17

I had an acquaintance who was a smart woman, but one day she suddenly said that we didn't understand anything and if she were a man, then she listed all the things my friends had done that caused them various problems, from financial losses to health and legal problems. But she was sure we were just passing our chance. Yeah, right.

Camrad_RIP 11.01.22 в 16:19

Looking at those predatory sweet smiles, listening to the constant "Mr. Baron, what are you doing tonight?", "Mr. Baron, would you mind" and "Mr. Baron, I've dreamed so long" - I wanted to crawl away to hole up with the Ghoul.

Camrad_RIP 20.01.22 в 14:48

No, not a kiss without love! I could, of course, go away somewhere, I was not chained, but I was too lazy to go away.

Camrad_RIP 20.01.22 в 14:48

There's still work to do. Oh, von Schnitze just a hint and there will be more work than necessary! I looked around: the manager was standing nearby, waiting for something. Maybe just a hint? Well then:

Camrad_RIP 20.01.22 в 14:49

"They say once in Denmark a girl came to school with a cross, and they told her to take it off, but she didn't. And she was crucified on the cross!"

Camrad_RIP 20.01.22 в 14:49

The old man chewed his lips thoughtfully, moved his eyebrow a few times, looked at me, and cautiously answered:

Camrad_RIP 20.01.22 в 14:50

"Mr. Baron, I still think that in some ways this story is not quite... um... true."

Camrad_RIP 20.01.22 в 14:50

That was a thousand years ago.

Camrad_RIP 20.01.22 в 14:51

His face instantly brightened.

Camrad_RIP 20.01.22 в 15:00

"Oh, then it really could have happened! Where did you hear such an interesting legend?"

Camrad_RIP 21.01.22 в 16:28

"The old people used to say..."

Camrad_RIP 21.01.22 в 16:29

I sighed. The old man had a sense of humor, but a very peculiar one, and he didn't understand most of my jokes. Or didn't want to.

Camrad_RIP 21.01.22 в 16:29

It's boring, though. I've got to do something, or I'm going to start acting weird!

Camrad_RIP 21.01.22 в 16:34

"By the way, this legend is proof that already in those centuries there were schools in Denmark, and women were educated there on an equal footing with men!"

Camrad_RIP 21.01.22 в 16:34

Egilbert and I looked at Marty and stay loudly silent.

Camrad_RIP 21.01.22 в 16:35

Yesterday she finally put three knives in a row in the middle target and fought her way to becoming assistant to the chief of the guard. An hour later he sent her to Eggie. In another hour the latter sent the girl to the father. The old man tried to tear himself away for a long time, running around the castle, but he couldn't, for all his swiftness, and I reckon he came up here to the tower so that I could somehow put the combat friend to rest.

Camrad_RIP 21.01.22 в 16:41

Oh, that energy for peaceful purposes... At least she's a little afraid of me.

Camrad_RIP 21.01.22 в 16:42

In general, I never ceased to be amazed at how seriously these guys, my squires, took everything seriously. It would seem that they had spent not so little, but not much money on some courses, in fact - a theatrical recreation. Did they not realize that not so much and get? And that at any moment they could take off and go away on really important business instead of letting themselves be abused?

Camrad_RIP 21.01.22 в 16:58

Probably not.

Camrad_RIP 21.01.22 в 16:58

More than that, Eggy reported that there was a waiting list for a second set of squires, and some of the volunteers (probably at the instigation of one brave mustachioed man) had opened some sort of training course.

Camrad_RIP 21.01.22 в 16:59

Though why am I surprised, there's a whole small country that thinks that if you pretend that everything goes as it's supposed to, then everything will go as it's supposed to. Oh, those eskies...

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 17:54

"I'm going to go check out the basement. Has the group left yet?"

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 17:55

"Yes, Alexander." Von Schnitze stared at me hopefully, but I, being a tyrant and a despot, did not take Marty with me.

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 17:56

It's been a long time since I've been in jail! It's been a week now. First of all, I don't like it there. Not because they are victims of my injustice, but because there are tourists there. Secondly, something constantly happens to the tourists - someone twists his arms and legs in the torture chamber, testing the strength of the shackles, or some Asians altogether managed to get locked in an empty cell. It was quite a sight, twenty-two people staring sadly at Erdar, running along the walls with excitement, and photographing non-stop - the poor guy almost broke the bars with his bare hands. That's okay, now we also take "barred" pictures. Americans are especially eager to take them.

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 17:57

From the door of the first cell came groans. The tax collector, pleasantly surprised by the percentage dripping to him, like most of his countrymen in such a situation, immediately began to improve his skills - did vocal exercises to develop the voice, worked long and thoughtfully on the costume. Still, the locals know how to work, even I was impressed.

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 17:58

"You, dear Otto, were in the wrong business; you should have been on the stage. You're wasting your talent. As soon as you've finished your time, you must enroll in an acting course."

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 17:59

"Thank you, Mr. Baron, I am very flattered. I'm thinking of introducing some recognizable classics into the repertoire."

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 18:14

The publican changed his expression to a more tragic one.

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 18:14

"Better gesticulate more actively, place the image three-dimensionally!"

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 18:15

Schreiber hesitated, moved his hand at random, stared at his palm, put it to his stomach and to his chest several times, guessing.

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 18:26

"Genius! That's what I've been missing!"

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 18:26

"Happy to help. Are the conditions acceptable?"

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 18:27

"Considering that I still consider my detention to be arbitrary..."

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 18:27

"... fully compliant with local laws, so it's more of a working point."

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 18:27

"Let's presume. The conditions are decent. But I resent it! Why is my neighbor's door open and mine is not?"

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 18:28

Well, you seem like a relatively decent person, here, even a spark of acting talent shows that you just lost your way at some point. And your neighbor, he's a mess. The banker... On the other side of him, as you note, sits a perpetually hungry cannibal. We don't give up hope that one day they'll find each other.

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 18:29

"Оh... I understand. But I'm afraid the poor African guy has no chance."

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 18:30

Here I agreed with him.

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 17:50

After nodding to the publican, who had begun practicing his most soul-crushing moans and curses in the third act, I moved on.

Camrad_RIP 06.02.22 в 17:53

The next two doors were open.

Camrad_RIP 21.01.22 в 16:59