"Well...," Emma sighed, clearing her mind and beginning her mental projections...
"I didn't keep going down the Egypt path because other than a series of hieroglyphics that mean 'The First One', I had no leads, so instead I investigated Shaw's buyers. His connections with Trask, the MLF, etc. And that's where things started to get interesting."
"The Hellfire Club, as you know, existed for a long time before Shaw and I took it over. Names of members reads like a who's who of nobles and industrialists in American, British, and Irish history. There was even some crossover with the Royal Society... who had a somewhat infamous outcast by the name of Nathaniel Essex."
"Now, this isn't on public record and only recorded in the annals of the Hellfire Club's own secret history, which unbeknownst to Shaw I had maintained locked away when we took over, but this Nathaniel Essex had also made mention of 'The First One' in his work. The guy was a biologist, a student of Charles Darwin, and a hell of a brainer. However, his work got increasingly amoral for the Royal Society's taste, so they kicked him to the curb. Being huge social Darwinists, of course the Hellfire Club offers to continue funding his research."
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"I didn't keep going down the Egypt path because other than a series of hieroglyphics that mean 'The First One', I had no leads, so instead I investigated Shaw's buyers. His connections with Trask, the MLF, etc. And that's where things started to get interesting."
"The Hellfire Club, as you know, existed for a long time before Shaw and I took it over. Names of members reads like a who's who of nobles and industrialists in American, British, and Irish history. There was even some crossover with the Royal Society... who had a somewhat infamous outcast by the name of Nathaniel Essex."
"Now, this isn't on public record and only recorded in the annals of the Hellfire Club's own secret history, which unbeknownst to Shaw I had maintained locked away when we took over, but this Nathaniel Essex had also made mention of 'The First One' in his work. The guy was a biologist, a student of Charles Darwin, and a hell of a brainer. However, his work got increasingly amoral for the Royal Society's taste, so they kicked him to the curb. Being huge social Darwinists, of course the Hellfire Club offers to continue funding his research."