What We’ve Been Doing With Rflong7/13′s Horse Head Island
That’s Abade Academy all done up like a dog’s dinner and the inmates residents moved into their new home.
But what’s that northwards in the distance to the right?
Wireless College, their nearest neighbours, with a view from its tower and battlements of the mainland to the south.
Oh, and if you’re curious about the flag outside, it looks like this:
For anyone wondering about those wall hangings on the south side of Abade Academy…
What? You’re curious about what sort of Simmies reside in these?
(Oh plumbobs, that sounds like the catchphrase from that old TV show Through The Keyhole With Some Arsehole or whatever it was called).
She’s nice (Sarah Worm - quit the ‘cute kitten’ face routine, bitch, you’re not impressing anybody ...).
She’s nasty (Jenny ‘Sparky’ Ralspark - she’s egalitarian: she treats everyone with equal contempt...)
... and she’s neurotic (Pandora Nereid Spinney).
But if you had Abade Academy for neighbours, a bunch of nerd sociopaths for cohabitants at Wireless College, an RFID tracking device inserted into your neck against your will by the place you escaped from, and had a GPS tracking device inserted via an even more awkward bodily part when unfortunate enough to run into ...
... ah, now that would be telling!
Let’s just say we’re including a list of suspects in the tabs.
As for what we’re doing with this lot - all in good time, our pretties, all in good time...
Is the Simliches sweetening of the Foundlings about to turn sour?
And the basket case proffering poison apples, the question is who?
You’ll find out more, come Chapter Twenty Two!
Wireless College was a place which really existed - for anyone interested where we got the idea from, please visit the Wireless College of Colwyn Bay website.
It’s remarkable to think when Wireless College closed (as other places offered wireless technical training as part of wider skills courses, and any extra training required would be learned ‘on the job’), there were still people going into Tandy or Radio Shack to buy bits and pieces for their home made radio rigs, and the Citizen’s Band radio boom was just around the corner.
When people think of ‘wireless’ now, their minds turn to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Mobile Broadband - which goes to show perhaps there may have been a place for a ‘Wireless College’ today.
The ‘Bottle Witch’ part isn’t a copy of J K Rowling’s idiotic ‘mudblood’ slur on non-’pure blood’ witches, before anyone asks. Rowling copied hers straight from contemporary neo-nazism, minus the ‘blood’ part, where it referred to skin colour. Considering she took her degree in Exeter, perhaps not surprising, it has long had problems with anti-Semitism, conspiracy theorists and pub bore racists.
It’s inspired by the petty snobbery to be encountered with some neo-pagans (or should it be neo-neo-neo-pagans considering the number of revivals there’s been?) towards ‘weekend pagans’ and ‘pagan dabblers’. The worst offenders are those who are ‘witches’ because they believe surrounding themselves with New Age paraphanelia makes them better than everyone else; as all those who witnessed the EswenRaedself car crash back in 2014 may remember.
You tend to find people who were involved in ‘the Craft’ long before it became fashionable are the very ones with the least tolerance towards those who get snotty with ‘dabblers’, although equally they also tend to be the least friendly towards newcomers until they get to know them. After decades of gutter press ‘exposures’ which in some cases let to people losing their jobs or having their livelihoods destroyed, you can hardly blame them - when you keep being kicked in the teeth you tend to keep your mouth shut.
Anyway, decided to use it as part of a much longer backstory on the history of witches in the Simming world. As with all matters, some of their issues today are the result of others bad behaviour in days past.
For those who may have forgotten the significance of poisoned apples, go back to Chapter Nine.
