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…
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St. Remedius Medical College: “Accelerator Antonyms”
A Dramatization of Two St. Remedius Rivals At Their Most Aggressive (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) SCENE: The front gate of ST. REMEDIUS MEDICAL COLLEGE looms up, the cryptic graffiti “PROVERBS 26:11” crawled in sidewalk chalk on the street out front. It’s early on a lovely October morning, outstanding even for Dallas, Texas in October, with not a cloud in the sky. Students are rushing…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Porkskin Preview”
The Saga of St. Remedius’s Only Foray Into College Sports (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) A much-accepted aspect of student life at St. Remedius Medical College was the near-total lack of collegiate sports teams. In any ranking of “America’s Best Party Colleges,” St. Remedius ranked at the absolute bottom, alongside Caltech, MIT, Brigham Young, and the Pablo Cortez Art Academy in Phoenix, Arizona instead of…
St. Remedius Medical College: “A Fae Fundraiser”
When Serial Entrepreneurs Find Environmental Activism (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (The following video, reference materials, and outtakes from the St. Remedius Medical College video library, exclusively licensed for use by the Annals of St. Remedius. Unauthorized use of this video without subpoena is unauthorized and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.) (Video starts with a closeup of a middle-aged white…
St. Remedius Medical College: “And Now I’m Gonna…”
St. Remedius’s Involvement With Some of the Most Intriguing Reality-Based Programming of the Age (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) While being best known for its exonormal research and studies, St. Remedius Medical College offered a robust and diverse curriculum in the decades before its disappearance, even including programs in journalism, radio/television/film, and Public Relations. Besides being a boon for incipient researchers expected to write their…
St. Remedius Medical College: Mission Statement
Why St. Remedius Is What It Is (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Contrary to expectations, St. Remedius Medical College wasn’t the only organization dedicated to exploring, documenting, chronicling, exterminating, or otherwise researching extranormal phenomena. It wasn’t the best-funded, nor the largest, or the oldest, or even the one with the best archives. Where St. Remedius succeeded was in name recognition. Members of top-secret government or…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Back History, With Occasional Explosions”
Who was St. Remedius? The Official Story In the early days of the Catholic Church, the criteria for individuals achieving sainthood were considerably more flexible than today, and many early saints currently in registry today either didn’t exist, being created out of whole cloth either to make a point or for a laugh, or they were real people with tales of celestial abilities and interventions added centuries after their deaths,…
And so it begins.
The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College Of the many mysteries behind the famous/notorious educational institution known as the St. Remedius Medical College, the most enduring involves its recent destruction on an otherwise nondescript day in May. The annihilation of the entire campus was notable in that absolutely nobody was killed or even injured, and the only remaining trace of the college was a massive excavation just north of downtown…