Johannes Bruge

Johannes Bruge

Johannes Bruge is the Technician and Experimentalist in Chief and Head of Investigative Engineering--or T.E.C.H.I.E., for short--of the World Archive. He has served in this office for some seven centuries, and, with the liberal use of life-extending cyberware and arcanotech implants, shows no sign of stopping. His primary responsibility is the maintenance and care of the Reality Engine, though he spends much of his spare time designing and building other equipment for the Archivists' use. He is often impatient and irritable when interacting with Archivists, which has led to many of them avoiding him except when they need his expertise.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Johannes is a slightly hunched figure, often wearing tattered, loose-fitting robes in dark blues, grays, and browns. His right hand is thin and wrinkled when he does not cover it with a padded synthleather glove. His left hand--or what passes for it--is a constantly-shifting, intricate array of metal tools, computer interface sockets, and many-jointed, wiry fingers. His pointed ears are tipped with golden implants which trace their outer tips. His right eye is a luminous blue orb of cyberware implanted in his socket, while his left is an equally unnatural golden color.

Body Features

Left hand replaced by cyberware prosthetic.

Facial Features

Right eye replaced by arcanotech prosthetic.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Johannes has been serving as TECHIE since his mentor, the previous TECHIE died by . He has spent the seven hundred years since periodically upgrading his body to keep himself effective as the Archivists' technical advisor. Though he occasionally assists directly in archival work, most of his writing is focused on the technologies, systems, and mechanisms which keep the archive itself running. Even when he does write about a particular world, he almost exclusively focuses on its technology or technological-analogue.

Gender Identity

Male (He/Him)

Sexuality

Asexual.

Education

Johannes trained under the previous TECHIE for 77 years before taking the post himself. Before that point, and before joining the World Archive, he claims to have been the leading scholar in his world of mythotechnology. This claim, like all claims regarding pre-Archival history, is unverifiable save by the Director.

Employment

Johannes Bruge has worked at the World Archive for roughly eight centuries. He claims the exact number to be 802 years, seven months, and 23 days, but the exact veracity of this claim is unverifiable, since his hiring records were mistakenly destroyed by the 943,998th Director of the Archive.

Morality & Philosophy

Johannes is as a rule unconcerned with philosophical thinking. This is, in his words, a defense mechanism. Better not to think about it, in his opinion, when your entire life is spent as a speck trying to observe and catalogue the scope of infinity.

Relationships

Johannes Bruge

Employee

Towards The Director

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The Director

Employer

Towards Johannes Bruge

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History

Johannes   They're the Director, for now. Not a half bad one. Don't try and argue with me about the Engine, let me do what needs doing, and tell me when something's borked. No complaints.   The Director   Ah Johannes, an excellent and long time member of the Archive.  He gets to the point and has a voracious appetite for new technological research.  His work on the Engine is some of the best progress we've made in mythotech; he is the expert on the matter after all.   While I would prefer he be slightly less curt with those around him, I frankly can't argue too much.  I do enjoy speaking with him when our paths cross and our conversations are often quite stimulating, perhaps I should swing by later with some tea.

Laurenette Scott

coworker

Towards Johannes Bruge

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Johannes Bruge

coworker

Towards Laurenette Scott

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History

Laurenette Scott   Johannes Bruge is a man after my own heart: ruthlessly efficient, smart as a whip, and vaguely spooky to look at; I can relate. Too bad he's such a massive twat. He's rude to the other archivists, who are more skittish around him then they are around me! He refuses to entertain any of my theories about the archive's possible sentience because, apparently, whether or not it is sentient is irrelevant. He asked me once why I cared so much about things I have no control over, and I didn't really know what to tell him... Most of the time he's overly curt, but when he really gets going on something (though he immediately becomes impossible to understand what with all the jargon), it is something to behold. He's older than I'll ever be, which means that, being a bit of an archive himself, he's an invaluable member of the archive staff. I bring him coffee a lot. It does seem like he could use some friends, not that I think he'd want me as one of them. Regardless, I cannot ever seem to get any real information out of him...   Johannes Bruge   Nett's not bad. Curious, that one. Sometimes curious about things I'd say are best left unquestioned, but they're young, that's their right. Make decent coffee. And they listen to the answer when they ask me a question; more than I can say for most of the staff.

Seren Liu

Coworker

Towards Johannes Bruge

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Johannes Bruge

Coworker

Towards Seren Liu

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History

Seren Liu   Oh man, that guy is hilarious. I mean, I have no idea what he's talking about, like, 95% of the time, but he's really fun to mess with. Not even on purpose, all the time! Within my first two years of working at the Archive he yelled at me approximately twenty-three different times about accidentally breaking tech stuff. After that I lost count. He's also the person who banned me from being anywhere near the Reality Engine! Anyway, he's a riot.   Johannes Bruge   He's a joke without a punchline. A living 'x walks into a bar'. Supposedly he's an effective diplomat--last I checked, diplomacy was a bit more involved than sleeping with as much of a planet as one can get one's hands on.   Worst part is, he's not stupid. Not sure he even knows that himself. He applied himself properly, he'd be a damn fine historian. Instead, the closest thing he's ever gotten to recognition was when some smitten engineer hacked the Director's systems to give him employee of the month.   Even if he did use his brain, though, man would have no business coming near my work. Breaks stuff within seconds of entering a room. Thought about testing him for an mythomorphic damping field, but then I realized he breakes mundane tech as much as the exotic stuff.   Dunno how Cai Ming's blood got this watered down this quickly. Maybe a Zami thing.

Tony Ambrose

Coworker

Towards Johannes Bruge

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Johannes Bruge

Coworker

Towards Tony Ambrose

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History

Tony Ambrose   He's actually someone's who's been here far longer than I have. Crotchety old geezer, but at some point, you earn that. Brilliant, too, though I don't think that needs saying anymore.   And I get that to most, I'm just a tool to go check if it's still raining acid outside, but he seems to believe that literally. He seems utterly convinced that I am a piece of mythotech emergent from the Archive itself, an instrument to aid in the pursuit of knowledge and that all my memories and personality are just there to make me a better test subject. Fun thought - wrong, of course - but fun.

Species
Elf
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Gender
male
Hair
Sparse, silver
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Pale, wrinkled
Height
6'7"
Weight
213 lbs
Aligned Organization
Known Languages
Most common languages

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