Apples for MAESTRO

[Kai NRG]

  Ever since Uncle’s disappearance, Guy had been feeling awfully low spirited.  He would never have admitted it, of course, but so it was.

  At first he had thrown himself heartily into the goings on – you know, the signing of the Magna Charta, the creation of the Constitution, and that sort of stuff.  But in fact, without Uncle around, he was feeling pretty lost.

  Proof positive: he had started talking to his old apple tree out back.  Time was, Guy aired his speeches on his Uncle.  He’d wax grandiloquent over the dinner table and throw out dramatic flourishes as practice for his secretarial duties.  But he couldn’t rant over a solitary meal.  Mostly because he had an idea that the butler was keeping a close eye on him.

  So today he was just lounging around, and suddenly found himself in front of a neglected old apple tree.  Apples.  Guy remembered how his Uncle hated them.

  From remembering how Uncle hated apples, to remembering that he was due for a speech announcing MAESTRO’s monopoly, was an easy step.  (Even just thinking to himself, Guy caught himself and mechanically switched to maestro.)

  Guy looked around carefully.  No one in sight.  He could practice safely, without his butler thinking that he had lost his mind.

  “Citizens of Eslandola!” he began.  No, that wouldn’t do: it was so – well, in fact, it had an Oleonish ring to it.  “Ladies and Gentlemen!”  But that sounded like something a Corry would say.

  “Bah!  Let’s get to the point already.  It is my great pleasure to announce to you... but that’s not true.  I could hardly care less about the matter.  Fact is, there’s not much I care about at all these days.  Really, I think I should go on a good ol’ fashioned treasure hunt.  Find me a map or sumthin’.  Or maybe I should – should – turn harpooner and go on a whaling cruise.  Or go live with the Indians for a summer.  *Ahem!*  Ladies and Gentlemen – green and red apples all – excuse my rambling.  To resume.  It has fallen to my lot to present to the honorable Trading Company, the Mpya-Steador  All-Encompassing S… S… Something… what on earth does that S stand for?!?  Statistical?  Satirical?  Satani-never mind.  I ramble.  Begging your pardon, apples.  I hereby present maestro – I mean, MAESTRO – no – well, yes…  What’s a man to say?  Put it to yourselves, apples.  I say maestro, I offend the reds.  I say MAESTRO, I offend the greens.  Or vice versa.  Well, well.  Civilized life’s a tightrope.  That summer with the Indians is looking better and better, as long as I can be sure they’re not cannibals.  I hereby present a certain Trading Company with – an apple monopoly!  Ha!  Yes, Guy, that’ll do admirably.  Walk up onto the platform and say that.  And watch the apples fly – at you.  What has become of my flair for dramatics?  I can’t seem to think up anything.  I’ll probably blank out this afternoon.  Yes, I can see it, plain as if it were already happening in front of me.  I clear my throat a half a dozen times, smile all round, just manage to choke out – ‘I present… someone… with… something!’  Ha!”  And Guy whirled around and strode back towards the house, still muttering to himself.

  In the end, he wrote his speech out on a fancy placard and nailed it to the Town Hall building, instead.

 

A quick little build to announce MAESTRO's new Apple Plantation Monopoly!

[Garmadon]

 Neat build but particularly great story, Kai, the end is especially awesome    The mix of colors of leaves and apples looks pretty good there, and it looks overall like something one would expect to find in a body's backyard... but I will mention that those weeds seem awfully high 

[TitusV]

 That's the best read I've had in quite some time! Thanks for the monopoly

[Elostirion]

Congratulations MaEsTrO on your new and quite well-deserved monopoly.

Great work on the nice presentation, Kai!

I wonder whether it's for Apple Plantations (like the MCTC one is limited to cotton plantations) or for teh appleing-industry as a whole?

[SilentWolf]

Great story! It was such a fun read. I have some nice Indians near Elizabethville you can come visit. ;)

 Also nice little build. 

 

[Kai NRG]

On 12/10/2016 at 7:56 PM, Garmadon said:

 Neat build but particularly great story, Kai, the end is especially awesome    The mix of colors of leaves and apples looks pretty good there, and it looks overall like something one would expect to find in a body's backyard... but I will mention that those weeds seem awfully high 

Thanks Garmadon!   Of course; Guy is far too busy to bother cutting weeds!

On 12/11/2016 at 4:00 AM, TitusV said:

 That's the best read I've had in quite some time! Thanks for the monopoly

  You're welcome!

On 12/11/2016 at 4:28 AM, Elostirion said:

Congratulations MaEsTrO on your new and quite well-deserved monopoly.

Great work on the nice presentation, Kai!

I wonder whether it's for Apple Plantations (like the MCTC one is limited to cotton plantations) or for teh appleing-industry as a whole?

That would be for plantations, yes.  Otherwise it's way too broad!

Thanks!

6 hours ago, SilentWolf said:

Great story! It was such a fun read. I have some nice Indians near Elizabethville you can come visit. ;)

 Also nice little build. 

Thank you! 

[Capt Wolf]

Fun build, and even more fun with the story that comes with it! I really like how you represented the look of an old, gnarled apple tree.

And congrats to MaEsTrO (did I get that right? ) on their apple plantation monopoly!

[Tezclatipoca]

Nice and fun story !

Great to see Felipe's efforts in MAESTRO (sorry, but I have to use all the capital letters ) have been noticed and it is nice to see that helped the company to obtain its Monopoly ! Thank you !

I like this apple tree a lot ! Great rendition of an old venerable tree !

 

[Kai NRG]

On 12/12/2016 at 0:39 PM, Capt Wolf said:

Fun build, and even more fun with the story that comes with it! I really like how you represented the look of an old, gnarled apple tree.

And congrats to MaEsTrO (did I get that right? ) on their apple plantation monopoly!

Thanks Capt Wolf!  Apple trees are fun to build because they're fairly simple. 

4 hours ago, Faladrin said:

Nice and fun story !

Great to see Felipe's efforts in MAESTRO (sorry, but I have to use all the capital letters ) have been noticed and it is nice to see that helped the company to obtain its Monopoly ! Thank you !

I like this apple tree a lot ! Great rendition of an old venerable tree !

 

Thank you Faladrin!  I hope MaEsTrO makes good use of its monopoly!