Icehouse

## The Icehouse

* **Location:**400 9th Ave S, Moorhead  MN 56560
* **Style:**Trashed
* **Gang:**Icehousers
* **Description:**Permanent Party House.

Nobody knows exactly when the 'Icehouse' was founded and there's about a dozen stories about where the name came from. What is known is that it started as a house rented to a group of local students who made it into a party house. Legend has it that they did so much damage to the place that they had to rent it for the summer to clean it up, but ended up partying even harder and had to raise funds to keep from being kicked out and it evolved into an actual bar/venue.

The Icehouse still retains a lot of the character of its origins as a party house. Its clientele is still mostly college students (mostly Concordia  and MSUM , although NDRU  is not unrepresented), young and wild and not picky. The bar is on the main floor, there is usually grilling in the back yard (or the kitchen in case of weather) , and the bedrooms upstairs are always left open, with people crashing or hooking up as they like. People are allowed to sell and buy (and use) anything that isn't booze on the grounds. The Moorlocks  even occasionally do fundraisers here. The owners also live in the 'House, inhabiting the only rooms besides the cellar that locks. The cellar is where they keep their stock.

The booze is pretty much whatever the ownership can get for cheap, so the stock is always rotating, usually with hard liquor and cheap beer (usually a keg or two of Heisler  Lite or Penzburg ), although occasionally they get their hands on something better, like a case of Lake Devil or some bottles of wine .

They hold shows pretty much any night they can manage it, on the lawn or in the living room, everything from local garage bands, open mic nights, college performance acts, professional acts passing through town to other gigs (bands playing the Corner often have a tradition of doing an impromptu appearance at the 'House) or even just the owners playing some of their favorites.

Needless to say, its not the best supervised and every few years the Icehouse spends some time shut down by Knight Errant (or the Underbergs ), and often rightfully so, but so far, they've always managed to reopen.

### Moroccan Playground

The garage of the Icehouse (nicknamed "Moroccan Playground" for reasons nobody has fully made clear) has always had a special part to play. After years of just being somewhere to take drugs, the mana here became aspected to otherworldliness to the point that it was adopted as a ritual space by local magic students at Concordia and MSUM, free to use for whatever experiments or rash ideas they aren't allowed to use their official work spaces or lodges for. Somebody actually did shape the Playground into a lodge, although the tradition and identity of the original caster is still up for debate.

This took a bit of a dark turn a few years ago during the Tempo craze, when the Playground became largely a central spot for Tempo use. Even after the disappearance of Tempo, the casting and potency of the magic abilities brought on by the drug have left their mark on the astral space here and student casters (often under the influence of something themselves) will swear that ever since then, SOMETHING has been watching what goes on here, something patient and perhaps something hungry, although none of these observers were in any fit state to be called 'reliable'...

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