Sarabun/Interactions

This is a list of interactions with Sarabun. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Reencounter 3 Retirement 4 Rehire 5 Story: Kiev 6 Like Quotes 6.1 Yelisei 7 Dislike Quotes 7.1 Algirdas 7.2 Varvara Introduction[] The color of your face worries me, sir. Perhaps you should apply leeches... Leeches? What are you, a doctor? "I am from Kiev. Learned to read and write at the Kiev-Bratsk college, and then I became a doctor. Until now, I offered myself to the Cossacks of the Kurenevskoe community. Healed them from hang-overs, offered bloodletting, dressed their wounds. And what a life it would have been, have I not met that French cartographer... what was his name... Guillaume de Beauplan. He fell ill as he was passing through Kiev, and I was summoned to apply leeches... The Frenchman was certainly talkative. While I was treating him... my what stories he told! About cherry-trees under Pereyaslav which would grow only up to the waist, and of the crayfish in the Ukrainian rivers nigh the size of a cat! And that the Tatar children are born blind like puppies, and only open their eyes on the second week... Among other stories, Beauplan told me that the Sick Cossacks treat fever by mixing vodka with gunpowder..." The next day I was called to a sick Cossack colonel in Kurenevka, and I gave him that very treatment. The poor chap guzzled down the cure, and cried out like mad -- for the whole day, until he died in the evening. The nitre in the powder had burned his intestines. The people of Kurenevka learned of this, and sent almost a full regiment after me, threatening to put my skin on a drum." In fact I do need a doctor for the party. Please, join me. I am most grateful. I can not only heal fever and apply leeches. I can also dress battle wounds! Just note one thing... I am of the simple folk, and I have no love for those masters who would earn their fortune by robbing the ordinary folks... I always do as honor demands. Come now, prepare for the journey. Sir, I would only like to settle some formalities, a little advance, so to speak -- just 600 thaler. Well, I should expect you to serve me hand and foot for this. Here, take it. And what else are serfs for? Nay, I need no rebels among my men. Oh no, friend! You might poison me too! Take these worms of yours and begone, bloodsucker! Reencounter[] Now, naturally, I am searching for a trusty patron -- one whom I might relieve of any illness. Retirement[] Well, the time has come for us to part ways, good commander. The locals have persuaded me to stay and heal them. I am grateful for your help and protection, and shall you have need of my leeches, you know where to find me. Rehire[] With the scarce pay these villagers can offer me, I had almost given up. No, I am much better off serving as an army doctor. Would you accept me back? Story: Kiev[] We are approaching Kiev! That is a wonderful city! The years have taken their toll, but the capital of the Ancient Rus is even now the finest place on earth. Were it not for the dreadful Kurenevka Cossacks, I would never have left my homestead in Podolsk. But fate never seems to ask my opinion... We are all blown in the wind. Even moreso, people who are masters of a trade like mine, which is so ungratefully received. Like Quotes[] Yelisei[] By the way, Yelisei is a great fellow. He never boasts about his family grandeur like some do, and he's always ready to lend a hand to a comrade. 'Tis quite a shame he took the path of a warrior. He would have made a marvelous doctor. Dislike Quotes[] Algirdas[] I have tried to constrain myself, good commander, but Algirdas drives me to despair. In his eyes I am but a serf, a bondsman with no right to even raise my eyes to him. But I am a member of our party just like he! Oh, what a noble he is, with not even a single plot of arable land. I can no longer stand this humiliation! Varvara[] I would be content and have no complaints, were it not for Varvara. The witch hates me. She complains that I remind her of her late husband... When she takes up her weapon, it sends shivers down my spine. I cannot get it out of my head these days.