Ceasefire Lounge

The public area of the Ceasefire Lounge is just that, a lounge located on the Upper East Side. However, the VIP room is very selective: any Tradition Mage or Technocrat who enters New York finds themselves invited to visit, and the invitation explains the rules, which amount to "Don't start trouble here." and include that no one in the VIP room pays for food or drinks, making it quite popular among younger and poorer mages.

Recently, the Ceasefire Lounge has started to reach out to those not affiliated with either the Traditions or the Technocracy, though whatever network it uses to find people is a bit less effective among the Crafts.

Policies
The VIP room is for mages only.

No mage pays for food or drinks in the VIP room.

Every Tradition and Technocracy member, and the majority of Crafts-mages, receive invitations to the VIP room on their first night in the City.

The owners must not be revealed, to avoid any appearance of favoritism.

History
The Ceasefire Lounge was founded in 2004 when the Traditions and the Technocracy of New York agreed to suspend hostilities in the wake of the Avatar Storm/Dimensional Anomaly. Since then, the Ceasefire itself has expanded to cover the Greater New York City area, taken broadly.

Though the Lounge is usually quiet, in 2011, John Robertson made an attempt to annex the Lounge when Viribus Mercurius was out of town. This nearly destroyed the Ceasefire for which the Lounge is named, but Jennifer Kyuryu and James Reisman intervened, cutting medical and financial support to the Stanev Center for Aerospace Research until Robertson backed down. Since then, Robertson has been banned from the Lounge and has had to send proxies to any relevant meetings.