St. Remedius Medical College: "A Trio of Potential Allies"

Some Of the Other Extranormal Investigators and Fighters Working With Or Possibly Against St. Remedius

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

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Not every organization dealing with exonormal issues had a connection to St. Remedius Medical College when it existed. While plenty qualified as part of the St. Remedius Bromley Contingent, others had, at best, a peripheral connection, and many only made a contact in the final days of the College before its disappearance. In the future, the Annals of St. Remedius may go into further details on their exploits, particularly involving those final days, but that depends upon their records within the St. Remedius archives.

The Samhain Trio

One might assume that the various afterworlds open to the recently deceased exist in relative detente, only interested in increasing their power and influence in the mortal world but not crossing borders for the souls of the already dead. That assumption is deadly wrong, especially when the wars between afterlifes spill over onto our continuum. With new afterworlds constantly forming, splitting off, or slowly fading away as worship, deference, or fear fade, the spirits in any given afterworld are currency for their supervisors and maintainers, and new defenders rise to protect the souls gravitated toward these new realms. The Samhain Trio consisted of three protectors, the moonblade mystic Elizabeth Corwen, the lantern wraith Big Jack, and the hellcat Dinictis, summoned inadvertently thanks to a combination of Raven Silverwolf spellbooks and really bad merlot on a Halloween night renfaire event in 2004, who discovered that they could do more good, relatively speaking, on this side of the veil. Sometimes working with Hell, sometimes with Hel, and sometimes with Mictlan, the Trio tend to show up after incidents of mystic leaks and spills, misused Elder Magicks, and influxes of Halloween Spirits in attempts to regain balance with the darker afterworlds. Occasionally they partner with others for dealing with common threats, but only on Halloween Night do they stay long enough to do more than annihilate the threat and move on. Halloween is Dinictis’s night, and he expects scritches after a long calendar year.

SPG

The acronym is obscure, but SPG’s work is very well-known in exonormal circles. SPG consists of four English college roommates who decided to start their own exonormal research and investigation group after graduation, known to most in the business only by their initials. Between R. (linguistics and philosophy, astronomy), N. (pharmaceutical and organic chemistry, Eastern metaphysics, law enforcement), M. (negotiation, political science), and V. (medicine, demolitions, rodent husbandry), they already had built a solid reputation for investigations before aligning themselves with the mysterious Russian business leader “Mr. B” and his family, who gave them the connections and resources to move their sphere of research outside of the UK. When not on the track of escaped murderesses or wandering demons, they built an additional reputation for supplying questions for University Challenge competitions and headlining musical interludes throughout the UK, particularly at video festivals, summer holiday events, the random impending council demolition and KGB alumni gatherings, and searches for higher meaning in the lyrics of popular music.

The Knitting Circle

While exonormal investigation is not a field of employment conducive to a long and restful retirement, some long-timers occasionally cross the finish line with most of their extremities and brain cells intact. Many of these go on to more restful careers such as asteroid demolition or roller derby, but they often miss the adrenaline rush and rejoin as research reservists. The Knitting Circle, still operating in the Dallas, Texas area, is an assemblage of some of the best minds in the subjects of metaphysics, advanced or extrahuman technologies, prophecy and prognostication, hallucinogenic influences, and forbidden literature, collecting every Sunday afternoon, within reason, at a different location every week to discuss world developments while busying themselves with their particular crafting specialties. As the name suggests, the Knitting Circle started with knitting and quilting, but in present times runs into electronics design, squash carving, and Warhammer 40,000 figure painting. Outsiders are tolerated and sometimes allowed to ask the Circle for advice or information, but only those who bring food are invited back, the more homemade baking the better.

(Many thanks to the singular talent David Lee Ingersoll, who has been inspiring me for a full third of a century now and who inspires me still.)

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