Bernadetta comes to work. Byleth doesn't show up for work. Production hosts a tournament. Finance makes a discovery.
To: Marianne von Edmund; Ashe Ubert; Bernadetta von Varley
From: Ignatz Victor
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 9:32 AM
RE: Mandatory Meeting
Mandatory Finance meeting in thirty minutes. Sales is reporting different numbers than we anticipated and we need to figure out the error in our system.
Ignatz
P.S. Bernadetta, please video-call in.
To: Ignatz Victor; Marianne von Edmund; Ashe Ubert
From: Bernadetta von Varley
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 9:41 AM
RE: RE: Mandatory Meeting
I'm in my office now, no need to video-call.
Bernie
To: Bernadetta von Varley
From: Ashe Ubert
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 9:42 AM
RE: Is this a joke?
Wait, you're here today?
Ashe
To: Ashe Ubert
From: Bernadetta von Varley
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 9:44 AM
RE: RE: Is this a joke?
Upper management says that all remote employees must be in the office once every two weeks. So I will be here with my door locked shut for my one allotted day of torture.
Bernie
To: Marianne von Edmund; Ashe Ubert
From: Ignatz Victor
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 9:53 AM
RE: Help me out?
Why does Bernadetta lock her door? I tried to get in her office to go meet her in person and all I heard was a screech behind the door.
Should I be worried?
Ignatz
To: Ignatz Victor; Marianne von Edmund
From: Ashe Ubert
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 9:55 AM
RE: RE: Help me out?
That's just Bernadetta, she's always been like that. I think she might be agoraphobic. She'll sometimes let people in her office on the few days she's ever been here, but I think I've only seen Dorothea go in.
Ashe
To: Ignatz Victor; Ashe Ubert
From: Marianne von Edmund
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 9:57 AM
RE: RE: RE: Help me out?
I'm really proud of her for coming to work when she wasn't feeling like it. I think we should all do our best to make her feel safe here.
Marianne
To: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd; Edelgard von Hresvelg
From: Claude von Riegan
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 10:12 AM
RE: Byleth?
Can someone tell me where my secretary is? I don't see her having logged any personal days or called in sick. Have one of you sent her to do something?
Claude
To: Claude von Riegan; Edelgard von Hresvelg
From: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 10:15 AM
RE: RE: Byleth?
I asked her to investigate getting the office some new coffee mugs some time ago, but I'm not sure that's what she's doing, unfortunately.
Dimitri
To: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd; Edelgard von Hresvelg
From: Claude von Riegan
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 10:21 AM
RE: RE: RE: Byleth
Why would we need new coffee mugs? We all have our own. I'm particularly proud of mine, it's got these cute little deer all over it.
Claude
To: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
From: Dedue Molinaro
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 10:24 AM
RE: Assistance?
Sir, I just heard a loud crash come from your office. And as I am typing this I have heard several more. Would you like me to come tidy up in there after your anger management?
Dedue
To: Dedue Molinaro
From: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 10:35 AM
RE: RE: Assistance?
Get every coffee mug in this office. Get every LAST ONE OF THEM.
Dimitri
To: Leonie Pinelli; Caspar von Bergliez
From: Raphael Kirsten
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 10:52 AM
RE: HEY
GUYS. I FOUND IT.
Raphael
To: Leonie Pinelli; Raphael Kirsten
From: Caspar von Bergliez
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 10:56 AM
RE: RE: HEY
I'm simultaneously terrified and intrigued.
Caspar
To: Caspar von Bergliez; Leonie Pinelli
From: Raphael Kirsten
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 11:00 AM
RE: RE: RE: HEY
Remember back when we used to have those absolutely crazy Millennium Festival parties? How three years ago we had that ping pong tournament? The one where the winners of every match had to do a shot before moving on and wear an eyepatch the entire time?
Well, I found the table after it's been lost for so long.
Raphael
To: Raphael Kirsten; Caspar von Bergliez
From: Leonie Pinelli
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 11:03 AM
RE: RE: RE: RE: HEY
Oh. My. Goddess.
Leonie
To: Shamir Nevrand; Catherine von Charon
From: Ignatz Victor
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 11:13 AM
RE: Urgent
Come down to Finance. There's something that I need to explain to you.
Ignatz
To: Byleth Sothis Eisner
From: Claude von Riegan
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 11:23 AM
RE: Hello?
Where are you? Please don't pull a Hilda, the bosses won't buy a lie to save my girlfriend's job.
Claude
To: Mercedes von Martritz
From: Dorothea Arnault
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 11:31 AM
RE: Mug?
Do you know where my mug is?
Dorothea
To: Seteth Cichol
From: Rhea Seiros
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 11:37 AM
RE: Employees?
I'm seeing less and less of the employees walking around. Do you know where they are?
Rhea
To: Rhea Seiros
From: Seteth Cichol
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 11:39 AM
RE: RE: Employees?
I'll get to the bottom of it.
Seteth
To: Shamir Nevrand
From: Catherine von Charon
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 12:01 PM
RE: Shit.
Figures the one day Bernadetta actually comes into work is the day she cracks the mystery.
An entire million missing from profits.
We're fucked.
Catherine
To: Rhea Seiros
From: Seteth Cichol
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 12:03 PM
RE: RE: RE: Employees
So apparently Production found the old ping pong table. Somehow this equated to a majority of the staff migrating to the basement and beginning an impromptu tournament.
Even Claude is down there, though to his credit he's trying to calm things down.
Seteth
To: Ignatz Victor; Marianne von Edmund; Bernadetta von Varley
From: Ashe Ubert
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 12:07 PM
RE: Are we bad at our jobs?
How does one company lose a million right under their noses? Better yet, how did we not catch it sooner?
Ashe
To: Rhea Seiros
From: Seteth Cichol
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 12:10 PM
RE: Well done
The announcement was a nice touch.
Seteth
To: Lorenz Hellman Gloucester
From: Hilda Valentine Goneril
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 12:27 PM
RE: The game
I would have destroyed you in that match if Rhea's announcement hadn't put an end to it.
Hilda
To: Hilda Valentine Goneril
From: Lorenz Hellman Gloucester
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 12:28 PM
RE: RE: The game
Pish posh, it wasn't a sanctioned Emblem Corp. ping pong game, there were no eyepatches. Or shots.
Lorenz
To: Claude von Riegan
From: Byleth Sothis Eisner
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 12:43 PM
RE: Be there soon
I'll be in soon, I was just in a meeting with my father.
By
To: Byleth Sothis Eisner
From: Claude von Riegan
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 12:46 PM
RE: RE: Be there soon
Your father?
Claude
To: Claude von Riegan
From: Byleth Sothis Eisner
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 12:55 PM
RE: RE: RE: Be there soon
Jeralt Eisner, he's one of the biggest investors in Emblem Corp. I got my job out of nepotism.
By
To: Edelgard von Hresvelg; Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
From: Claude von Riegan
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 12:59 PM
RE: My secretary
Were either of you two going to tell me that I'm dating one of our biggest investors' daughter?
Claude
To: Claude von Riegan; Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
From: Edelgard von Hresvelg
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 1:03 PM
RE: RE: My secretary
Nope.
Edelgard
To: Claude von Riegan; Edelgard von Hresvelg
From: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 1:05 PM
RE: RE: RE: My secretary
You didn't put that together? They have the same last name.
Dimitri
To: Ignatz Victor; Marianne von Edmund; Ashe Ubert
From: Bernadetta von Varley
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 1:13 PM
RE: Another note
So I was checking the spreadsheets from the safety of my office and I found something that feels like an irregularity.
Since when did we have part of our budget going towards 'Business in Almyra'?
What even is that?
Bernie
To: Bernadetta von Varley; Ashe Ubert; Marianne von Edmund
From: Ignatz Victor
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 1:17 PM
RE: RE: Another note
Emblem Corp. has no business dealings in Almyra. I'll speak with Catherine about this.
Ignatz
To: Hilda Valentine Goneril
From: Marianne von Edmund
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 1:22 PM
RE: Uh oh
I think we just found a case of fraud.
How's your day going?
Marianne
To: Marianne von Edmund
From: Hilda Valentine Goneril
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 1:25 PM
RE: RE: Uh oh
I think you've one upped me when it comes to corporate scandals for the day.
Drinks after work for details?
Hilda
To: Rhea Seiros; Seteth Cichol
C.C.: Shamir Nevrand; Ignatz Victor
From: Catherine von Charon
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 1:31 PM
RE: Inconsistency
I've just gotten out of a meeting with Shamir and Ignatz about a part of our budget being allocated to 'Business in Almyra'. None of us know what to make of this.
Do either of you two know? It wasn't sanctioned on our last budget outline.
Catherine
To: Seteth Cichol
From: Rhea Seiros
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 1:33 PM
RE: See me
Come to my office immediately.
Rhea
To: Shamir Nevrand
From: Catherine von Charon
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 1:54 PM
RE: Details?
I saw Seteth go into Rhea's office and I haven't heard from either of them.
Have you heard anything?
Catherine
To: Claude von Riegan
From: Byleth Sothis Eisner
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 2:02 PM
RE: My father
My father wants to meet you. He might try and scare you away from me. He can be very protective.
By
To: Caspar von Bergliez; Leonie Pinelli
From: Raphael Kirsten
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 2:03 PM
RE: Ping pong?
All of upper management seems to be distracted.
More ping pong?
Raphael
To: Shamir Nevrand; Catherine von Charon; Ignatz Victor
From: Rhea Seiros
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 2:22 PM
RE: Situation handled
Seteth and I have reconciled the budget. At the beginning of the year, there was a proposal to begin investing in a foothold in Almyra, but the idea was tossed aside. Those funds were switched over into our Brigid budget.
Thank you for catching this misstep.
Rhea
To: Catherine von Charon
From: Shamir Nevrand
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 2:23 PM
RE: RE: Details?
Definitely fraud.
Shamir
To: Shamir Nevrand
From: Catherine von Charon
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 2:25 PM
RE: RE: RE: Details?
What do we do?
Catherine
To: Catherine von Charon
From: Shamir Nevrand
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 2:27 PM
RE: RE: RE: RE: Details?
We'll talk after work.
Shamir
To: Byleth Sothis Eisner
From: Claude von Riegan
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 2:33 PM
RE: RE: My father
When am I meeting your father?
Claude
To: Claude von Riegan
From: Byleth Sothis Eisner
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 2:39 PM
RE: RE: RE: My father
He wants to meet you tonight. He's cooking dinner which is either a sign that he wants to impress you or wants to intimidate you as much as possible.
By
To: Hilda Valentine Goneril
From: Claude von Riegan
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 2:43 PM
RE: Help
I am so fucking dead.
Claude
To: Marianne von Edmund; Bernadetta von Varley; Ignatz Victor
From: Ashe Ubert
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 2:49 PM
RE: Um?
Where is my mug?
Ashe
To: Byleth Sothis Eisner
From: Claude von Riegan
Sent: Monday, Horsebow Moon 16, 3:12 PM
RE: Paperwork?
Did you put this request for new coffee mugs on my desk?
Claude
Author Notes: Credit where credit is due, The Erudite, one of my bestest buddies, gave me the idea for the 'get every last one of them' line. Our humor is really similar and I really encourage you to check out his stuff!
And oops maybe I lied a little bit when I said there would be no real plot. We have a little plot to give me some different kinds of material to work with. If this doesn't turn out funny, then we'll know for the future going forward.