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Date Posted: 20:12:29 09/30/07 Sun
Author: klutz
Subject: The Drawbridge

I’m not a fan of team-building exercises, but if you have to do them, this one is pretty good and led to some interesting discussion.

The Drawbridge

As he left for a visit to his outlying districts, the jealous baron warned his pretty wife: “Do not leave the castle while I am gone, or I will punish you severely when I return!”

But as the hours passed, the young baroness grew lonely, and despite her husband’s warning she decided to visit her lover, who lived in the countryside nearby.

The castle was situated on an island in a wide, fast-flowing river. A drawbridge linked the island to the mainland at the narrowest point in the river. “Surely my husband will not return before dawn,” she thought, and ordered her servants to lower the drawbridge and leave it down until she returned.

After spending several pleasant hours with her lover, the baroness returned to the drawbridge, only to find it blocked by a gateman wildly waving a long, cruel knife. “Do not attempt to cross this bridge, Baroness, or I will have to kill you,” he cried. “The baron ordered me to do so.”

Fearing for her life, the baroness returned to her lover and asked him for help. “Our relationship is only a romantic one,” he said. “I will not help.” The baroness then sought out a boatman on the river, explained her plight to him and asked him to take her across the river in his boat.

“I will do it, but only if you can pay my fee of five marks.”

“But I have no money with me!” the baroness protested.

“That is too bad. No money, no ride.” The boatman said flatly.

Her fear growing the baroness ran crying to the home of a friend and, after explaining her desperate situation, begged for enough money to pay the boatman his fee. “If you had not disobeyed your husband, this would not have happened,” the friend said. “I will give you no money.”

With dawn approaching and her last resource exhausted, the baroness returned to the bridge in desperation, attempted to cross to the castle and was slain by the gateman.

Who is the most responsible for the death?
Baron
Baroness
Gateman
Boatman
Friend
Lover

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