Dr. Daniel Quarles
Cultural anthropologist specializing in History B site archeology in the Americas, formerly of the University of Michigan. He supervised the excavation of the reality shard later known as the Altamont Object. When Archie and Jocasta first met him, Dr. Quarles was:
doing something odd … he has a portable tape player with a hand-held speaker and is walking the perimeter of the bus-sized grave; he seems to be playing some sort of loud rock music backwards.
After "fumigating" the scene with his tape player, Quarles heads over to the black van and pulls out from the passenger side a mobile phone receiver on a long extendable curly cord. He beckons Archie and Jocasta over. "Ransom, Menos. So what I'm doing here is trying to counteract some of the poking and prodding that people have done at this subduction zone. What we've got to do is make this place normal again. Now, that is exceptionally unlikely to happen to the extent we'd like, given what happened here at the concert four years ago has become a memetic watchword worldwide for hippie excess and anarchy, but any little gesture helps. We're moving a fairly major speed race here in April in an attempt to help defuse that association. It would be very good if URIEL could help with the stabilization in the coming months. Pop over every night now and again with Hort, maybe send an observer or two to the race next month. Once we've removed the presumed pragmaclast, this stabilization process should get easier."