St. Remedius Radio: “Thou Shalt Suffer A Witch To Work A Day Job”

Close Enough For Thaumaturgic Work

(Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?)

By the time of the disappearance of St. Remedius Medical College, both magic and psionics were not only established and well-mapped phenomena, but they were promptly ground up and spat out in the never-ending quest to pay the rent. Thaumaturgy was just like tech or journalism: a few particularly deluded, incompetent, and/or ethically bereft got TV shows and book deals, while everyone else flailed in a variety of day jobs that may or may not have used their abilities to best effect. For every incipient mage who started high school with the dream of becoming a top geomancer or scryer, twenty or thirty predecessors were responsible for wards protecting against corporate espionage, spaying and neutering anomalous cryptids before they became invasive, or ensuring that the boss’s coffee remained less than 50 percent bat semen. Or explaining why 100 percent pure coffee “tasted wrong.” In many corporate environments, thaumaturgical side-hustles were a violation of company policy, usually enforced by considerably more powerful mages and guardians, but many persisted anyway out of a sense of self-preservation. Every touring band may have fifteen freshly-graduated wizards knocking on the door wanting to conduct light shows or manifest visions because they simply cannot handle another year of accounting spell recopying, but the one who not just broke through but surprised audiences by taking ten years of day-job crawling out on outer servitors or psychic parasites were HAPPY.

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