Friday Night Club

## The Friday Night Club

The Friday club started as a bunch of college students that would regularly get together drinking and dreking around in an apartment that was passed along from friend to friend in the Delendrecie Building (currently part of the Block at 3-1) in downtown Fargo.  At some point someone heard that a regular haunting occurred on the last Friday of the month and started to attempt to contact "The Hostess ", a pre-awakening ghost sighting this continued. Some nights they "felt things", most nights they just got drunk but like most things the awakening changed everything.

Those that stayed in town over the Christmas after the Awakening figured they were going to get together with friends and celebrate apparently something else happened that Friday. No one knows exactly what happened but 4 people disappeared that night, Jodi Ashburn, Robert Brunson, James Polly and Tallulah Kincaid. Three were found later having walked in a fugue state to the closest ley line convergence, but that would not be recognized for years to come. Unfortunately Robert Brunson's body would be found washed ashore in Muskeg bay by the Roseau County sheriff.

The three that survived came back changed and awakened. Under their guidance they began instating new rules, the practice began and the parties stopped. Unbeknownst to many they began quietly handling many of the earliest magical threats to the area and helped to provide guidance to others. In fact most fledgling magical societies whether currently active or inactive have had a member somehow tied to those early members but "membership" was always extremely limited, to less than six at a time, and always run through the same apartment. For many this was a temporary situation, a place to find themselves and expand their magical knowledge. Rumors stated that this knowledge was acquired via otherworldly guidance and those rumors were completely accurate.

Sadly the year of the comet was especially rough on the club, Ashburn and Polly had passed prior and during an especially violent manastorm  Kincaid and the remaining members were killed defending a SINless camp by a group of spirits at Trollwood . That was the end of the Friday night club, a trust was set up and the apartment has been kept vacant ever since in their honor.

At least that’s the official story given to the public, unofficially Kilbourne Urban Design (the holding company that owns the building) has rented out the apartment three times and all three times the renters complained of hearing constant talking and music in the walls that cannot be heard on the other side. They eventually gave up and turned the room into storage/automated drone maintenance and every once in a while send in a BSI mage to cleanse the background count.

Rumors circulated that those who perform a lights out ritual are greeted by a spiritual entity that identifies itself as The "Host/Hostess" and that it has been known to provide a wealth of information on everything from magical theory to beer pong advice for “compensation” which apparently varies from person to person. Buzz among the SOMA Crew, who live close to the room. is that the Square Round's signature cocktail ("The VIP") was inspired during one such ritual.

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