Hellfire Club

The Hellfire Club exists as an underground gentlemen's club of free-life, entertainment, vice and open sex.  Scandalous enough even today it was far worse for the burgeoning Chapter centuries ago when they first got started among the landed gentry and wealthy who would meet in secret to pay for socially disapproved of forms of companionship.  
The Hellfire Club, despite its occultic name, has far more to do with liquor, women, gambling and assorted other forms of carnal pleasure than it does with any form of Occultism.  
== Facts: ==
-The Hellfire Club was begun by members of the upper-class who wanted to experience the wild, darker side to life and love.  While some of them may have dabbled in Magick while attending Hellfire Club events, they are not representative of the Chapter at large. 
-The Hellfire Club is an association of Hedonists.  Seek pleasure, avoid pain is the motto for all Hedonists and the Hellfire Club strives towards that carnal ideal. 
-Hellfire Clubs are frequently situated underground or in out-of-the-way places.  In modern times the Chapter has gleefully indulged itself in the club lifestyle and several very prominent (and exclusive) night clubs are under the purview of the Chapter. 
-Drugs, alcohol, women and other carnal delights are what make up the standard Hellfire Club meetings.  
-Unfortunately, in their quest for ever greater pleasure many Hellfire Club members do wander into darker territories.  Black Magick, extreme narcotics, strange chemicals and far worse things have been committed by Hellfire Club members seeking to attain new heights of adrenal and serotonin.  
== Order of Courtesans: ==
The Courtesans have been in the Hellfire Club since the beginning, with several of its most important foundering being members or affiliates of the Order themselves. Courtesans still make up the bulk of the Chapter's Adept numbers, especially in regards to their leadership.  
The attraction a Chapter like the Hellfire Club would have for Courtesans is obvious, as is why the Hellfire Club would want Courtesan Adepts. But the Hellfire Club also gives the Courtesan Order something it lacked before - direct access to society's elites and a place of secrecy for the study of the occult.  
Many Courtesans join the Chapter precisely to learn Magick and thus further their own goals and those of their Order.  
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