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Throughout the adventure, numerous individuals mentioned Quarrie: | Throughout the adventure, numerous individuals mentioned Quarrie: |
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* According to [[Vincent Tuck]] who saw him in 1925, Quarrie was about 35, upper middle class with black hair and a slim build. A scientist, he worked at the Royal Society in Piccadilly and lived alone at 12 Moreton Street in Westminster. | * According to [[Vincent Tuck]], who saw him in 1925, Quarrie was about 35, upper-middle class with black hair and a slim build. A scientist, he worked at the Royal Society in Piccadilly and lived alone at 12 Moreton Street in Westminster. |
* Malcolm's wife, [[Hillary Quarrie]], apparently lives at [[Nug's Farm]] in the West Country. According to the letters found at Quarrie's former address he was estranged from Hillary. | * Malcolm's wife, [[Hillary Quarrie]], lives at [[Nug's Farm]] in the West Country. According to the letters found at Quarrie's former address he was estranged from Hillary (a fact that was later confirmed). |
* [[Wilfred Gresty|Wilfred Gresty's]] letters connected Hillary to a man called [[Atkinson]], and Gresty's ambitions. The full story of The Quarrie family's involvement with the [[Goatswood]] cult can be found on [[Hillary Quarrie|here]]. | * [[Wilfred Gresty|Wilfred Gresty's]] letters connected Hillary to a man called [[Atkinson]], and Gresty's ambitions. |
* [[Aleister Crowley]] believed that Quarrie had gone to Italy in search of The [[Brothers of the Yellow Sign]]. | * Malcolm's involvement with the [[Goatswood]] cult was discovered when [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett| Doctor Barlett]] and [[Captain George Withers| Withers]] met with [[Hillary Quarrie]]. |
| * [[Aleister Crowley]] believed that Quarrie had gone to Italy in search of The [[Brothers of the Yellow Sign]]. Which was soon found to be correct. |
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===== Tracking Down Quarrie ===== | ===== Tracking Down Quarrie ===== |
| The party were able to leverage the letters and information provided by [[Hillary Quarrie]] to find Malcolm. |
The [[http://www.unboundbook.org/wiki/images/4/4d/23_Malcolm_Quarries_First_Letter.pdf|first letter]] gave his reasons for breaking with [[Lawrence Bacon|Bacon]] and his circle and told of his planned '[[Pilgrimage of Grace]]' to bring [[Hastur]] to Earth. It gives his location as [[Milan]] and says he can be reached by letter through the Thomas Cook offices in that city. | * The [[http://www.unboundbook.org/wiki/images/4/4d/23_Malcolm_Quarries_First_Letter.pdf|first letter]] gave his reasons for breaking with [[Lawrence Bacon|Bacon]] and his circle and told of his planned '[[Pilgrimage of Grace]]' to bring [[Hastur]] to Earth. It gives his location as [[Milan]] and says he can be reached by letter through the Thomas Cook offices in that city. |
| * The [[http://www.unboundbook.org/wiki/images/7/78/24_Malcolm_Quarries_Second_Letter.pdf|second letter]], far more recent, explains that Malcolm is about to set out on his 'Pilgrimage' and gives specific contact details through [[Thomas Villiers]] at the shipping office of [[Giuseppe Colombo]] in Milan. |
The [[http://www.unboundbook.org/wiki/images/7/78/24_Malcolm_Quarries_Second_Letter.pdf|second letter]], far more recent, explains that Malcolm is about to set out on his 'Pilgrimage' and gives specific contact details through [[Thomas Villiers]] at the shipping office of [[Giuseppe Colombo]] in Milan. | * In Milan, Thomas Villiers revealed that he and Quarrie had travelled to Italy together, having broken with the Bacon group after [[Springer Mound]] and met the [[Brothers of the Yellow Sign]] in Rome, prior to joining a splinter group of the Brotherhood in Milan, with Colombo and professor [[Roberto Anzalone]]. |
| * Quarrie and Anzalone formed an expedition, ostensibly to Tibet, but whose true destination was the [[Nepal|Nepalese]] kingdom of [[Mustang]]. Quarrie left for the Himalaya some weeks before the party made it to Milan and according to his letter to his wife expected to encounter [[The King in Yellow]] at some time after December. |
In Milan, Thomas Villiers revealed that he and Quarrie had travelled to Italy together, having broken with the Bacon group after [[Springer Mound]] and met the [[Brothers of the Yellow Sign]] in Rome, prior to joining a splinter group of the Brotherhood in Milan, with Colombo and professor [[Roberto Anzalone]]. | |
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Quarrie and Anzalone formed an expedition, ostensibly to Tibet, but whose true destination appears to be in the [[Nepal|Nepalese]] kingdom of [[Mustang]]. Quarrie left for the Himalaya some weeks ago and according to his letter to his wife expected to encounter [[The King in Yellow]] at some time after December. | |
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===== Meeting Quarrie ===== | ===== Meeting Quarrie ===== |
==== Quarrie's Death ==== | ==== Quarrie's Death ==== |
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Eventually, while Quarrie sat explaining his credo to [[Nathaniel Browne]], who was finding it more convincing with every passing minute, [[Umberto]] walked up to Quarrie and, without warning, put a bullet through his head. | While Quarrie was explaining his credo to [[Nathaniel Browne]], [[Umberto]] walked up to the cultist and shot him through his head, without warning. |
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Almost as soon as Quarrie was dead, Browne realised that Malcolm had been attempting to sway him by the same sorcerous means used on [[Major Ricardo Delnegro|Major Delnegro]]. With Quarrie gone, the power of his arguments quickly faded. | Almost as soon as Quarrie was dead, Browne realised that Malcolm had been attempting to sway him by the same sorcerous means used on [[Major Ricardo Delnegro|Major Delnegro]]. With Quarrie gone, the power of his arguments quickly faded but equally seemed to provide a passage through the [[Upper House]] to [[the King in Yellow]]. |