Post by effinfitz on Jan 7, 2013 22:36:37 GMT -8
LET US tell you what we know.
HERR HERMAN was Mr. Rystaad's right-hand man. His seneschal. His lieutenant. He got his hands dirty so that ol' Solvy wouldn't have to.
NOT that we could prove this in a court of law. Oh no. Li'l Dieter was veddy, veddy good.
WE'LL GIVE HIM that.
BUT.
LI'L DIETER LOST his way a while back. Started getting despondent. Sullen. Like Lancelot, when he remembered hsi girlfriend was married to his buddy. All withdrawn and worthless in a job where action and initiative carry the day. It was a good time for us.
NOW Li'l Dieter stays lost. He's too knowledgeable to fire, to valuable to erase. So we shoved him in a hole and let him paint the walls with secrets that we'll collect when he gets tired of breathing.
Thoroughly average looking and on the wrong side of "over the hill," Herman certainly doesn't look like how dangerous a man he would be were it not for his mysterious depression. Setting in without warning maybe a year or so before Solveig's death, it's kept him from contributing meaningfully to the company cause. In his heydey he was a deadly agent, a resourceful investigator, and a feared business manager that kept the upper levels of AEgir's offices (the Solvall having not been built yet) running like precision clockwork. With his name and carefully maintained German accent (which he could drop as needed, but rarely wanted), the Gestapo comparisons were unavoidable.
Just so long as he was out of earshot.
After Soveig's untimely death and the Illuminati takeover of the company, Herman was shelved and left to generally meaningless tasks. Never particularly close to the boss's daughter or any of her new hires, a job was eventually found for him that, while important, was far too mundane to waste a usable field agent on. He was put in charge of the Solomon Island Resupply Project. The idea was that a little charity work might reinvigorate him. It didn't, mind, but it certainly benefited from his presence.
Taking refuge in a donated house, Herman maintains contact with the local survivor communities using CB radio, morse code flashes, and carrier pigeons. He composes detailed but deathly dull daily reports and requests for new supplies, most of which are skimmed but never read.
The few employees at AEgir that predate the company's restructuring remember him fondly, as if he hadn't been a grim-jawed taskmaster who smiled nearly as often as he took a day off: never. To Solveig, he was both Cameron and Martinique. To Shay, he's that One Uncle at a family reunion: talked about but never seen. It's sad, really, but she has bigger problems to deal with now doesn't she?
Which probably explains why she's unaware that Dieter's last daily report is a couple months overdue. Bureaucracy's a #$*(@.
Using in-game, or, RP notes.
As it just so happens, Dieter is a character I'm using in a li'l scrawl on the notepad I keep, just to reassure myself that I remember how to use the English language. So I do have a general idea about why Dieter's disappeared. It was, in fact, the focus of Mila's first mission after being shuffled into the director's chair of Investigation, and the main reason why (ICly, at least) she vanished off the face of the earth for a while there. The final summary of her report is filed in Jenna's Restricted Archives at the moment, which is to say that no one's read it. If anyone's curious, ESI Lab's taken temporary oversight of the supply chain until a more permanent solution is re-instated.
So Dieter's not terribly available for in-game inclusion at the moment. Still, it's a bit of fluff and agency lore. Collect 'em all for an achievement!
HERR HERMAN was Mr. Rystaad's right-hand man. His seneschal. His lieutenant. He got his hands dirty so that ol' Solvy wouldn't have to.
NOT that we could prove this in a court of law. Oh no. Li'l Dieter was veddy, veddy good.
WE'LL GIVE HIM that.
BUT.
LI'L DIETER LOST his way a while back. Started getting despondent. Sullen. Like Lancelot, when he remembered hsi girlfriend was married to his buddy. All withdrawn and worthless in a job where action and initiative carry the day. It was a good time for us.
NOW Li'l Dieter stays lost. He's too knowledgeable to fire, to valuable to erase. So we shoved him in a hole and let him paint the walls with secrets that we'll collect when he gets tired of breathing.
Thoroughly average looking and on the wrong side of "over the hill," Herman certainly doesn't look like how dangerous a man he would be were it not for his mysterious depression. Setting in without warning maybe a year or so before Solveig's death, it's kept him from contributing meaningfully to the company cause. In his heydey he was a deadly agent, a resourceful investigator, and a feared business manager that kept the upper levels of AEgir's offices (the Solvall having not been built yet) running like precision clockwork. With his name and carefully maintained German accent (which he could drop as needed, but rarely wanted), the Gestapo comparisons were unavoidable.
Just so long as he was out of earshot.
After Soveig's untimely death and the Illuminati takeover of the company, Herman was shelved and left to generally meaningless tasks. Never particularly close to the boss's daughter or any of her new hires, a job was eventually found for him that, while important, was far too mundane to waste a usable field agent on. He was put in charge of the Solomon Island Resupply Project. The idea was that a little charity work might reinvigorate him. It didn't, mind, but it certainly benefited from his presence.
Taking refuge in a donated house, Herman maintains contact with the local survivor communities using CB radio, morse code flashes, and carrier pigeons. He composes detailed but deathly dull daily reports and requests for new supplies, most of which are skimmed but never read.
The few employees at AEgir that predate the company's restructuring remember him fondly, as if he hadn't been a grim-jawed taskmaster who smiled nearly as often as he took a day off: never. To Solveig, he was both Cameron and Martinique. To Shay, he's that One Uncle at a family reunion: talked about but never seen. It's sad, really, but she has bigger problems to deal with now doesn't she?
Which probably explains why she's unaware that Dieter's last daily report is a couple months overdue. Bureaucracy's a #$*(@.
Using in-game, or, RP notes.
As it just so happens, Dieter is a character I'm using in a li'l scrawl on the notepad I keep, just to reassure myself that I remember how to use the English language. So I do have a general idea about why Dieter's disappeared. It was, in fact, the focus of Mila's first mission after being shuffled into the director's chair of Investigation, and the main reason why (ICly, at least) she vanished off the face of the earth for a while there. The final summary of her report is filed in Jenna's Restricted Archives at the moment, which is to say that no one's read it. If anyone's curious, ESI Lab's taken temporary oversight of the supply chain until a more permanent solution is re-instated.
So Dieter's not terribly available for in-game inclusion at the moment. Still, it's a bit of fluff and agency lore. Collect 'em all for an achievement!