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Millennium Dome: Supernatural Connections

18:55 / 18.12.01

a man has just called a local radio station stating that he was 'not surprised that the millennium dome failed..... nothing could work on that site as it was a 'faery fort', an ancient meeting place for faeries from kent and surrey'. he added that the new venture would also fail but he expected no one to listen as 'no one has respect for these things anymore'.

i had not heard this story before. does anyone know anything more about it?

19:17 / 18.12.01

Not that one specificly, though I've heard that concept before. I know of a number of places that just can't support a business for more than a couple of months and have suspected as much about them.

23:35 / 18.12.01

Greenwich has some very interesting magical sites... wouldn't surprise me, frankly. They need to make a big parkland space with a bit of wild in it for the faeries maybe... I know they're not big on urban living, but I've known them to crop up in the parks in Glasgow, so anything's possible.

10:03 / 19.12.01

Do you think it might have anything to do with being by the river and not having any connection to/reason to be on the river??

Ie elementals not being involved/respected?

Or maybe the flu is fucking with my brain ...

[edited to make sense!]

[ 19-12-2001: Message edited by: angel ]

10:10 / 19.12.01

the bloke on the radio last night was certainly inferring that we'd trashed a faery fort by building the dome on it. maybe it was jinxed now? i wish he'd been on for longer, he sounded really interesting.

get well soon, angel, by the way!

[ 19-12-2001: Message edited by: shortfatdyke ]

16:15 / 19.12.01

Pre-Dome, it was all dead industrial space that was mid-way through going wild again... hmmm.

16:16 / 19.12.01

... so perhaps it should've been left alone?

09:43 / 20.12.01

Yeah- can't see it happening really though, Docklands being the new business centre of London and all those new towers going up.

Didn't they finally shift it today? I saw a headline somewhere...

Slight off-topic- has anyone heard of any cases of the Fae and 'mundane' worlds co-existing? apart from the findhorn stories that is?

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

09:43 / 20.12.01

What are the Findhorn stories? And are we taking the existence of fae as a given for this Thread? (never thought I'd find myself typing that senteance)

09:43 / 20.12.01

Yeah what are the Findhorn stories, I used to live near somewhere called Findhorn its got a hippy commune there, is this the same thing or am I totally off target...?

11:29 / 20.12.01

hmm...several people are convinced that the general docklands area has magickal connections. grant bought it up in the invisibles didn't he, with canary wharf being "built on a dragon-line". i know that was his fictionalised account, but i have heard people talking about the wierd energu at canary wharf. to be honest, i've kinda felt it myself; i find the whole place really rather spooky.

11:48 / 20.12.01

All this is probably going to make for a fun night when I go to the dome on new years eve - especially when my emotions are higher then than any other time of the year...

15:03 / 01.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Kooky is a bad scamp:
hmm...several people are convinced that the general docklands area has magickal connections. grant bought it up in the invisibles didn't he, with canary wharf being "built on a dragon-line". i know that was his fictionalised account, but i have heard people talking about the wierd energu at canary wharf. to be honest, i've kinda felt it myself; i find the whole place really rather spooky.

I totally agree about the energy at Canary Wharf - I noticed it the first time I had cause to get off the tube there. Not so much spooky, I thought, as somehow powerful (and I do feel faintly ludicrous saying that - but it really did impress me). The architecture of the station itself seems to play on the magical nature of the place...I got into a slightly peculiar state going down the long escalators one night, watching the play of lights on the metal. And I do have this feeling that the surrounding architecture might be enhancing or amplifying the energy somehow...just outside the station is very wide and flat, with several tall half-finished (at present) tower blocks...green cranes. Perhaps it is just an aesthetic thing...or perhaps I am just talking shite altogether...

There is a sense of space, and also a sense of being slightly crushed downwards, somehow... Actually, Canary Wharf got to me far more than some ancient stone circles etc. have...

19:30 / 01.01.02

Maybe the dome was built there BECAUSE it's faery fort. Aaaaaarrrrrhhhh.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:50 / 01.01.02

How do the Faeries feel about the compact and bijou nuclear reactor down the ways from their fort?

10:48 / 06.01.02

Intresting. This is the same argumet as Terry Prachetts "My Hongs Temple of the golden Dragon opeing an a full moon."
Not stictly related but a litte history lesson for ye all.
Earl Ranuhp of Mrecia (which is now Cheshire/Merseyside and part of Wales) was chaged with the ide of building a castle to Polce/Subjigate the Welsh peoples. He started laying the foundations in Alderley Egde, on a place know as Beacon Point.
Along came the Masons, Suggested he move the Castle to Beeston Hill.
Earl Ranauph one of the most powerful men in England at the time said Ok.

I know locally of sevral sited where busness seem to fail on a regluar basis.

Ps if the Dome is being used for a New Year Dance/Rave, couldnt the magical engergies be channeld in a positve manner (see thres on Dance music=magic)

Tryphena Absent

23:21 / 06.01.02

The faeries should like the Dome- it's meant to be fun.

10:38 / 07.01.02

Makes you wonder if there's a man who's in charge of the magical surveying before new buildings are assembled.

15:53 / 11.01.02

Don`t know London well enough to recognise the energy, but things do fail there (hell the RPG Kult even made something of it, and the writers of Kult blended fact and fiction well).

Of course look at the people who ran it. It could have been on the most auspicious site in the world and I still don't think it would have succeeded. The stars inpel they do not compel.

12:08 / 12.01.02

...or maybe it was just an idiotic idea.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:00 / 12.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Janina:
The faeries should like the Dome- it's meant to be fun.

I think the important part of this sentence is the word "meant". The Dome was basically full of crap.