@ilinx:~$ Echidna Stillwell
Professorv Stillwell had done pioneering fieldwork in ethnology in the 1920s leading the most controverted wing of what will become Virtual Ethnology, but her reputation quickly fell into eclipse. University authorities began to fear that she had gone native, credulously and uncritically adopting the strange folk beliefs ofher beloved Mu N'Ma. Some, such as professor Adin Fassrol, went so far as to suggest that she had been ‘creative’ with her findings; that much of her data had been simulated. Fearing that they had a Blavatsky-type fake on their hands,the University moved to dissociate themselves from her work. A whispering campaign wasorchestrated, and Stillwell was first discredited and then ‘forgotten’ by an anthropological community increasingly keen to establish its scientific credentials. The result was that her voluminous works – on Mu folklore (one of the three tribes of Nma island) – went unpublished. Complete disreputability was assured when her workbegan to be championed by occultists, poets and cranks of every persuasion, such as Peter Vysparov. During the beginning of the 70s he will become the head of the Miskatonic Virtual University with the creation of the N.W. Peaslee Chair in Hydro-History.