Editing New Ways Old Grudges Werewolf KarstnerLtd (section)

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What was less surprising was Karstner's focus on trying to solve the Dust Bowl problem - it ravaged farms and farmers all the way from South Dakota to Texas and blew Oklahoma topsoil through the streets of Washington D.C. Sun or cloud or blizzard-like dust storm, Karstner and his employees could be seen out trying to make their products work and get them to "take". It was no use - no matter what they did or how many chemicals they added, everything rose up and blew away with the next strong wind, and there were a lot of those. None of the winds have ever taken any responsibility for it - they do what they have always done, they say, it's everyone else's fault for putting themselves at risk. Were it not for the huge risks to Kinfolk, both human and wolf, some of the werewolves would have agreed - especially the ones who did not understand what some of the chemicals did.

Karstner himself was always friendly, but never lit up rooms or inspired crowds. Everyone who met him agreed that regardless of how things were going, he really did mean well. His company, however, was less popular. Mainly due to it not solving the seemingly impossible Dust Bowl problem, Karstner Chemicals was seen as worse and worse for the local area. Had Karstner worked magic he and his company might have been better remembered. Instead, because he could not, his company throve for five years, then shrank for three and staggered for ten before expiring in a forgotten heap in 1950. The company never lost its focus on agricultural chemical products, but took up sidelines wherever it could to boost its revenue stream - Karstner and his two administrative staff dealt with both Dakotas and Montana in the late '30s, and when World War II broke out they supplied food preservatives to the Army. Karstner was, after all, very intelligent and very sharp - he just had the bad luck of picking a totally impossible problem to solve.

When the contracts stopped coming and bigger companies started emerging both in the US and Canada, Karstner Ltd shed its few jobs and more and more of its nearly worthless land in an attempt to stay afloat. By 1949 the company knew this was unsustainable, and Karstner, by now a broken man, worked on putting the corporate affairs in order for the inevitable death, autopsy and estate sale. The doors closed and the lights went out on May 3rd, 1950. On May 4th Gerhard Karstner was found in his car with half his head missing and a shotgun between his legs.