Location
Basement
A private workshop under the apartment for toys, restraints, a hidden journal, and (with Master) the stocks.
Quick facts
- Unlock
- Basement Lease, $800, Day 15+ (apartment shop)
- Entry from
- [[loc:apartment|Apartment]] + [[loc:loft|Loft]]
- Hotspots
- Toys, Bondage, Journal, Stocks (Patreon), Exit
- BGM
- apartment
- Key gates
- apartment_expansion_enabled, apartment_has_basement
- NPC visit
- [[char:master|Master]] (Stocks scene only)
- Daily lockouts
- basement_bondage_today, basement_journal_today, basement_stocks_today
TL;DR
The basement is the first apartment expansion you can buy: $800 from the apartment shop, Day 15 or later. Once leased, a new hotspot drops you into a private workshop with four interactive choices plus the exit. Everything here is solo except the Stocks scene, which needs Master intensity 1+ and is Patreon-gated. The room visually evolves as your apartment_nest_tier rises (decor purchases drive that score).
Reachable from both the Apartment and the Loft once unlocked.
How to unlock it
Open the apartment shop (the laptop or the apartment-management overlay), scroll to expansions, buy Basement Lease at $800. Day must be 15 or later. The Ink VARs that fire are apartment_has_basement = true and the kill-switch apartment_expansion_enabled (already on by default in shipping builds).
After purchase, the Apartment and Loft hubs each surface a Go down to the basement hotspot in pink.
The room itself
The base scene paints a bare workshop: concrete, old wood, a workbench, dim light. Two layered overlays kick in as your nest tier grows:
apartment_nest_tier >= 1: a lamp warms the workbench.apartment_nest_tier >= 2: rug, mirror, velvet hook. The space starts reading as yours.
Nest tier is driven by decor purchases in the apartment shop (recompute_nest_tier() runs on each buy and nightly). Tier 2 is the threshold the Stocks scene checks against.
What you can do down here
Inspect your collection (Toy Display).
Passive, no energy or time cost. The shelf along the wall narrates whatever you currently own or have equipped: plugs (size-graded), dildos, vibrator, cuffs and clamps and heels and waist trainer, plus a key dish if you are caged. Owning nothing prints an “empty shelf” line. Read it when you want a quiet check on how far you have come.
Practice restraints (Bondage Practice).
Gate: Submissiveness 10+, once per day (basement_bondage_today). Cost: 8 Energy, 1 TimeSlot. Stat: +1 Sub.
You cuff yourself to a floor ring and run a twenty-minute timer. Narration branches on Submissiveness 40+ (the discomfort settles into stillness) vs. lower (you sweat through it). Wearing the cage or having Cuffs equipped adds a sentence. Equipped cuffs also tick cuffs_count, which feeds the cuffs-related milestones.
Open the hidden journal.
Gate: Femininity 50+, once per day (basement_journal_today). Cost: 5 Energy, 0 TimeSlot. Stat: +1 Sub and shame_gain(-1) (a small relief).
The notebook lives behind a loose brick. Nobody else knows about it, not even the Master. Branches on Fem 75 / Fem 60 / lower for what you write. This is one of the few introspection beats in the game where the narration explicitly hands you the words for what is happening, without an NPC reading them back to you.
Use the stocks (Patreon).
Gate: is_patreon() AND apartment_nest_tier >= 2 AND Submissiveness 30+ AND master_intensity >= 1, once per day (basement_stocks_today). Cost: 15 Energy, 2 TimeSlot. Stat: +2 Sub, +1 Fem, master_rank_gain(1).
The Master built the frame from a kit you ordered together. Wrists and neck go into the board, the key turns, your range of motion is gone for as long as they say it is. Branches on wearing_chastity for the orientation of the scene (cage cupped from the front vs. hands tracing your back). Ends with the Master walking out and leaving you on the floor.
This is the only NPC scene in the basement and the only Patreon-gated content here. Everything else is free.
Tips and gotchas
Three independent daily lockouts
Bondage, Journal, and Stocks each track their own *_today flag. You can do all three in one day if you have the Energy and the gates. They reset overnight together with the rest of the daily flags.
The Toy Display is the only free-look option
It costs no resources and updates with your inventory in real time. Useful as a sanity check after a shopping run or after the Master strips an item off you, because the shelf narrates what is missing.
The Journal is a quiet shame sink
shame_gain(-1) per visit is small, but at Fem 50+ this is one of the few non-shower options for shaving Shame without an NPC scene or a shop trip. Worth folding into your routine on heavy-Shame days.
Master visits the basement only for the Stocks
He does not show up here for nest-tier inspections (those happen in the Apartment proper, see Master.ink master_visit_nest_seen_tier). If you want him in the basement, you need the Stocks gates lined up.
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