The Firebird and Three Princes

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Well, Fogel, it's understandable Vasilii gets the most commands. After all, he's the...



BEST. BROTHER.

I assumed because my dad pays extremely well?

Apparently thats not enough these days.

What do you want?

"Hey! My dad pays your salary! Why should I have to take this kind of talk from you?"



"Exactly. Your dad pays me. Not you. And he doesn't pay me to cater to the every whim of his children. Now shut up and listen! This is important!"

Explain to him that casting a curse is magic, so his non-compliance would be compliance anyways, and if he'd really not wanted to do some magic then he'd have just refused or something.

"Hey, if you put a curse on me, that means you'd be casting a spell! So you'd be doing what I asked!"



"Quit being such a smarty-pants, or I'll make it a REALLY nasty curse."

>Let him taste his own medicine and tell him a long borring story untill he falls asleep

"Hey, you know what this reminds me of? One time, just after Ivan was born, he snuck into this party my dad was throwing and snatched a gold bracelt off of one of the guests, and..."





"Abra-kablooey!"





"You think you can put me to sleep with a story? Kids these days! When I was your age, we listened to our elders, especially when they could turn us into toads! And furthermore..."

Vasili: Let him listen to your music for awhile.

You're getting tired of this guy. You decide to give him a little taste of youth culture.



While the wizard gets lost in his lengthy story, you put your headphone on him.



"This is the kind of trashy music you kids listen to today? No wonder there's so much wrong with you!"

Vasilii: Point out that you're hear now, and that you'd like to be taught investigational techniques and also how to find firebirds.

"Look, I'm really sorry for not visiting the library more often. But I'm here now, and I'd like to learn some stuff about being a detective. And finding firebirds. Can you please help me?"



"That's better! Politeness is very important in a future ruler."
"But I don't really want to..."



"Here you go! These books should help you conduct your investigation, along with the book on firebirds I gave you before. Go sit down and read them, and feel free to ask me if you have any questions."



Well, he seems to have calmed down. But this is a lot of books to search through. What are you going to look up first?

Ivan: Invent COMMUNISM. Decide that you cannot live like this wile outside the gates people are starving.

Yes! The proletariat will no longer be oppressed! They have nothing to lose but their chains! It is time to begin the GLORIOUS COMMUNIST REVOLUTION!



"Your highness, what are you doing here? The Tsar made it clear that you are not to be allowed anywhere near this hallway."



Well, this is a severe blow to the revolution. How are you going to get out of this mess?

Dimitrii: Get your horse and some gold, and have a goldsmith make a false apple to plant as evidence. Get caught up in this so you dont realize how absolutely horrible the idea is.

Yes! This is a plan that cannot fail in any way whatsoever!



Except that it depends on you having a horse to ride. You should probably do something about that.

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Also I still can't draw horses.