Event

Master First Encounter

How the dominant in your apartment first surfaces. Depends entirely on the intensity you picked at character creation.

Quick facts

Setting: Character editor → master_intensity 0-3
Default: 2 (Landlord)
Intensity 0: No Master, no scenes
Intensity 1: Roommate (softest)
Intensity 2: Landlord (default)
Intensity 3: Owner (hardest)

TL;DR

master_intensity is a one-of-four switch set in the character editor. It picks the dominant’s role for the entire run:

Intensity	Role	What that means
0	Independent	No Master. The apartment is yours.
1	Roommate	Soft. Suggestions, panty hints, almost-friendly nudges.
2	Landlord	Default. Rent leverage. Pushes through compliance.
3	Owner	Hardest. Curfew, morning inspections, full surveillance.

The first time you meet the Master is Master_FirstNotice in Master.ink. It only fires at intensity 1+. On Independent it never plays. On Roommate/Landlord/Owner the scene is the same — the tone deepens with intensity, and the follow-up gates change.

Master_FirstNotice (the entry scene)

Fires from the apartment dispatcher when:

master_intensity >= 1
A short Day gate (varies by intensity tier, see below)
master_intro_done == false

The scene introduces {MasterName} as your apartment’s other resident. He notices something about you — body language, the way you sit, a softness you haven’t been performing — and lets you know that he noticed. The choice grid at the end is the first fork:

Acknowledge / soften → routes to Master_SubtlePush (the next gate).
Brush off / harden → routes to Master_FirstNotice_Resist. Postpones the arc; doesn’t end it.

master_intro_done = true is set either way. The scene is one-shot.

The intensity tiers in detail

Intensity 0 — Independent.

There is no Master. MasterName defaults exist in Globals but no scene ever references them on this path. The apartment is rented from a property manager who’s an off-screen contact. Rent still applies via the standard rent timer; nobody collects it in person.

This is the route to Ending 2 (Independent).

Intensity 1 — Roommate.

You share the apartment. He’s a friend-of-a-friend who let you take the spare bedroom for a reduced rent. The “Master” framing is metaphorical — he’s not your owner, he’s the older guy at the table with opinions about how you should present yourself.

Intro tone: noticing, curiosity, soft questions. The first morning check fires on a low Fem threshold and is more “have you thought about” than “wear this”.

Routes hardest scenes (Inspection, Punishment) are gated by master_intensity >= 2; they don’t fire here.

Intensity 2 — Landlord (default).

He owns the place; you rent. Rent leverage is the lever. He doesn’t outright command, but he applies pressure through gentle reminders (“the panty drawer’s still empty”), and the Bar_Order arc on this route uses pay-cuts as the carrot/stick.

Intro tone: appraising, transactional. The morning checks start earlier than Roommate, and missing them costs MR.

Intensity 3 — Owner.

Property of. He picks your clothes, sets your curfew, and runs morning inspections at Master Relationship 4+. The Bar_Order scenes use direct commands. The Allowance system (his money, his rules) is unique to this tier.

Intro tone: assumed authority from sentence one. The Curfew Violation, Morning Inspection, and Punishment scenes are all intensity-3 gated.

What follows

After Master_FirstNotice, the scene chain progresses through:

Master_SubtlePush — first explicit ask (panties, a soft hint).
Master_PantiesHint / Master_PantiesAcquire — first feminine gate.
Master_MorningCheck — the recurring morning beat starts firing (intensity 2+).
Intensity-gated scenes — Curfew, Inspection, Bar_Order series, Private Encounters.

By Day 14-21 the arc reaches its first real branch point in Master_PrivateEncounter.

Tips and gotchas

You can't switch intensity mid-run

master_intensity is set once at character creation. The cheat console (Patreon) can change it, but on a clean save you commit at the editor.

Intensity 0 has its own arc

Independent isn’t “no Master arc”. It’s the Independent arc — self-driven dressing, self-bought chastity, the Sarah discovery tilts harder toward solo decisions. The Master scenes simply don’t fire.

Master, the character page.
Master Intensity Gates, the gate list.
Stats, for how MasterRelationship interacts with the arc.

Mentioned on

Master Intensity Gates