Quinn Seabury is a mystic who used to work as an occult investigator. She worked with two partners named Trowbridge and LeGrandine. She has some sort of healing power.[1]
After a twelve-year career,[2] around 2003, she was captured by Lady Jettatura, who tried to force Seabury to swear allegiance to her. When Seabury refused to submit, Jettatura infected her with a mystical rot, which her own healing power kept from completely killing her. This resulted in turning Seabury into an eternally hungry creature, usually looking like a desiccated corpse, which could only temporarily alleviate her hunger by consuming the life-force of other beings, killing and rotting them in the process.
Seabury resisted to succumb completely to the hunger for three years, limiting herself to consuming only plants and animals. Eventually, a new scheme by Jettatura accidentally freed Seabury from her wretched condition, when first she consumed a large amount of pseudo-flesh, restoring her body almost completely, and then was cleansed by Sobek.[1]
Afterwards, the Green Witch offered her a place and assistance to recover. Her state at the time, as described by the Green Witch herself:
- She’s been cleared of any trace of the rot, and she’s in a lot better shape than she might have been, because she ‘ate’ all that mock flesh, just before being cleansed. But she’s still had a very hard three years. Her hair’s totally gone, she only has three of her original teeth left, and I hate to think what shape her digestion’s in. But it’s her emotional state that worries me. After three years of being the monster, I don’t think that Quinn’s going to be the cocky occult investigator that we knew.
Her recovery is slow but ongoing: 24 days after being cleansed, she felt her digestive system was ready to attempt eating scrambled eggs.[2]
Trivia[]
Her name is a homage to pulp author Seabury Quinn. He's noted for his tales of occult detective Jules de Grandin and his assistant Dr. Trowbridge (note the similarity of the names to Quinn Seabury's partners), and for Alien Flesh, a novel in which a male archeologist is magically transformed into an Egyptian harem girl.