A GOOD MAN
Graeme Price
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:35:13 -0500
Subject: DG: Yet another Bischofe
Well, unfortunately I seem to be about the only person _not_ contributing
to the EH campaign (lack of time, too much work, too many other projects...
is that the sound of violins I hear?) but I thought I'd toss my pet
Bischofe into the ring... not for any prize/glory, but just for the sheer
hell of it. Anyone who wants to use him is more than welcome.
Enjoy
Graeme
Dieter Schultz was a good man. Everyone said so. He married his childhood
sweetheart whilst still at university and was a loving husband and devoted
father to his two daughters, who he raised to be kind and respectful. Then
the war started. Dieter counted himself lucky, he was an engineer and a
specialist in designing gyroscopes. Thus he was spared the burden of
conscription, and remained in his job shielded from the horrors of war. For
the first years of the war he was reasonably contented and the hardships of
rationing troubled him little as he had his job and family to comfort him.
All this changed when he returned home late from work one evening. It
should be explained that Dieter lived and worked in Dresden. When the RAF
firebombed the city, Dieter was almost home, and he arrived back in time to
see his house swept away in a firestorm. He saw his wife holding his
daughters out from a window for him to try and carry away. Dieter attempted
to reach them, but was beaten back by the flames, suffering horrific burns
to his arms and face in the process.
Dieter spent the rest of the war and several years after in a hospital bed,
listening to the progress of the outside world on the radio whilst the
nurses changed his bandages each day. During this time anger and
frustration grew within him. Anger at the hypocrisy of the Allies: The
British had stolen his children from him in a horrific way, the Americans
had destroyed whole cities with horrendous weapons, the Russians had carved
up his homeland and imprisoned his countrymen. Yet the allies had the gall
to try his leaders for "war crimes" whilst not answering for their own
sins. The Nazis were cruel, it is true, but he felt that what they did was
both prudent and necessary to ensure the safety of the Fatherland. And
after all weren't concentration camps a British invention? His anger turned
to hatred, and then to fury, but he was confined to his bed and powerless
to change anything. Then one night, Nyarlathotep (in the form of a spectre
of Frederick the Great) appeared to him to. The choice he was offered was
simple. "Serve me well, and I will return you and your children to the
condition you were in on the day of the bombing and you will never age.
Otherwise, you will rot as a cripple in your hospital bed". The nurse
returned the next morning to find an empty bed and discarded bandages.
Dieter made his way to South America, just as "Frederick" had told him, and
eventually found La Estanchia where what appeared to be his two daughters
were waiting for him. Then he found what the meaning of "serve" was. At
first, Dieter conducted the missions and ceremonies asked of him out of
fear for his children. Later out of hatred and disgust for the hypocrisy of
those he killed. He rationalized things, telling himself that his actions
were righteous and that he was dealing blows for justice. That what he did
was for the sake of the children. That he didn't enjoy it. That it was
necessary. The other Bischofe's deeds appalled him, but he knew that his
purpose was different, noble even. Even today he tells himself that he
could stop and break his pact with "Frederick", if it wasn't for the
children. But something within him knows he cannot.
Dieter appears as a tall (6'1"), slim man, in his late 30's with slightly
greying brown hair. His eyes appear hollow, and he often seems tired as if
he is under the burden of great stress. All this changes in the presence of
his children, where he seems to be truly happy... of course, he is slightly
worried by his children's behavior, but then don't all children torture
animals and torment servants with nearly lethal practical jokes? From long
years of practice, Dieter is fluent in German, English and Spanish, and
passable in French and Russian. He kills without mercy, although he does
not regard himself to be a cruel man and tries to ensure his victims suffer
as little as possible. He does not gloat, or boast, or use unusual methods
(normally knife or pistol) in killing. He is unerringly polite, and it may
worry investigators facing him when he apologizes and asks for their
forgiveness before shooting them in the face. But then, of course, he is a
good man.
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