The Pimander Club
Tobacco, Leather, and Bay Rum swirl in a heady concoction, should you manage to make it past the grey stone walls through a door that seems more secure than some banks. The drone of conversation hums near the door of each room, but rarely escapes (with the exception of the dining room, where chatter must compete with the clinking of dishes and cutlery. If you don't know someone here, you're never getting anywhere.
Purpose / Function
Although it presents itself as "simply" a highly-exclusive club, The Pimander Club is notable for two things: First, it has allowed women since they courted and got Madame Blavatsky's membership in 1890. Second (as may be indicated by the first), most of the members have fairly esoteric interests: astrology, spiritualism, Theosophy, and even a few Hermeticists.
Architecture
The decor is tasteful, rarely running outside of the earth tones of natural leather, though a few of the portraits that are not of members have a flash of color. The lighting is enough to get by without tripping over the furniture, but low enough to impede random searches to identify who is about.
History
The Club was founded in 1887 by upper-class swells with an intense interest in the occult, and an equal interest in not associating with the hopelessly middle-class types populating the Order of the Golden Dawn.
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