When Electronic Immortality Strikes Back (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Long before the formation of the original Order of St. Remedius, the general consensus on the ability to preserve a presence after death was not only accepted by mystics and religious leaders, but accepted as a given. Some self remained around a body well after all vital signs ceased, depending upon the will and the…
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St. Remedius Medical College: “Urine the Money”
Even In An Age of Miracle And Wonder, There Are Always Grifters (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) The Dallas and the Texas that St. Remedius Medical College was sequestered within was and still is a haven for sometimes cryptic and sometimes blatant wonders. From Fury Fiesta to the great fae nesting grounds of Plano, Dallas was and is full of weirds, odds, and anomalies, to…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Junk In the Trunk, And In the Back Yard, And the Creek”
Not All Experiments Are Disposed Of Equally (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Those who grew up in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area during the Great Media Wars of the 1980s and 1990s often find themselves awake at night with various advertising slogans and jingles running unbidden through their heads. It might be as cheery as the Dallas Times Herald classified ad jingle “748-1414” (immediately marking…
St. Remedius Radio: “Grave Dealings”
Making The World Safe For Fun-Sized Snickers (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Family and friends of St. Remedius Medical College students and alumni were constantly surprised that St. Remedius never had anything approximating Halloween festivities. No Halloween socials, no Halloween parties, no Halloween drink specials at local bars. While the rest of Dallas used the holiday as yet another excuse for blackout drinking and temporary…
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: "Stop Me Before I Revenate Again"
A discussion of the serial resurrector plague (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Before its disappearance, St. Remedius Medical College experts were regularly called upon by law enforcement, inside and outside the solar system and space-time continuum, to engage in solving various crimes against humans and others. Poisoning of urban fae energy hubs, unauthorized time travel slumming, transmutation of gold to urine, retroactive forgery of documents…
St. Remedius Medical College: "Marocchinios and Mandelbrots"
You can get nearly anything you want at Siouzi’s Coffee & Books (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Siouzi Wooten didn’t start in the coffee and book business. When she graduated from St. Remedius Medical College with a Masters degree in Applied Metaphysics, she planned on a career in corporate thaumaturgy: weather spells to strengthen shipping lines, secure cryptocantrips for interoffice communication, protective sigils to avoid…
St. Remedius Medical College: "Introducing the Zwinge Foundation"
Making Sure That Your “Certified” Psychic or Thaumaturge Really Is (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) So that fortune-teller or psychic says they’re “certified,” or at least the company sending your tarot card request to them says they are. But how do you KNOW they’re certified? Who certified them? Are they registered in their state, province, prefecture, county, or country as a verified practitioner of the…
St. Remedius Medical College: "Better In the Concrete Than In the Abstract"
Power Webs and Emergency Portals, All In Plain Sight (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) For self-taught experts on mysticism, the explanation for St. Remedius Medical College relocating from the French Alps to Dallas, Texas at the turn of the Twentieth Century involved its long history in the metaphysical arts. This included elaborate rationalizations involving ley lines, astrological confluences, and so-called “spell funnels,” all making its…
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…