The answer is no. Herschell isn't there, they're off doing something else, having been distracted moments after the game started.

I don't even know who Herschell is. They may be someone from the old comic, but I don't remember the name off of the top of my head. Actually, could I easily check without rereading the old comic? The old cast page is gone, as the old website has been heavily changed and there were a LOT of characters. I even have two that I can think of that could have been named "Herschell", and I am not going to check. I mean, there is a author's note at the bottom of the old site saying that Grey/The Author is intending to put that back up at some point.

This comment is not intended as disparagement or any sort of negativity. I understand why the old site was transformed and the cast page was lost as a result. Commenting on that loss is not intended to insult or upset anyone, especially not the author.

Lock in gamers!