Location

Downtown

The big-city hub. Eleven location routes, bus stop to your neighbourhood, and a Red Light District that wakes up after dark.

Quick facts

Background: map_downtown_day / map_downtown_night (TimeSlot >= 2)
BGM / Ambient: outside / amb_city
Unlock: downtown_discovered = true (MorningEvents SMS, Day 3+)
Hotspots: 11 visible + 1 conditional fetish-store route via Red Light
Returns to: [[loc:outside|Outside]] via bus stop
Quick travel: Yes (quicktravelpossible)

TL;DR

Downtown is the second of two city maps and the parent hub for most mid- and late-game content. Once unlocked (Day 3+ via SMS, gated by downtown_discovered), the bus from your neighbourhood drops you in front of an 11-tile map. Day routes go to the Mall, Club, Beach, Gym, Clinic, and Spa, with the Office and Tattoo Studio gated behind separate discovery flags. The Maid (cleaning-client) tile appears once maid_discovered = true. At TimeSlot 2+ the Red Light District unlocks: a four-tile night sub-area (Tattoo Studio, Velvet Lounge, Maid Cafe, plus a Sub-30 fetish store) with its own bouncer beat and Look-around flavor.

Discovery and access

downtown_discovered = true is set by a morning SMS in MorningEvents.ink from Day 3. Until then, the Bus Stop tile on the Neighbourhood map shows a disabled “Route reopens soon. Watch your inbox.” line. Once unlocked, the bus is one-way: it drops you Downtown, and the only way back is the Bus Stop (Home) hotspot.

The map background swaps to map_downtown_night at TimeSlot 2+. The bus itself doesn’t gate on time, but the Red Light District tile does.

The eleven hotspots

Downtown is the entry knot. All choices return through CityReturn, a small dispatcher that routes back to Downtown (if last_city == 1) or to Outside.

The Downtown choice list.

Choice	Routes to	Gate
Mall	Mall	None
Club	Club	None
Beach	Beach	None
Gym	Gym	None
Office Building	Office	`office_discovered` (Day 7 flyer, bar_outfit >= 1)
Cleaning Client	Maid_Entry	`maid_discovered`
Clinic	Clinic	None at door; referral gates real care
Spa	Spa	None
Tattoo Studio	Tattoo Studio	`tattoo_discovered` (street wander, Day 7+)
Red Light District	RedLightEntry	TimeSlot >= 2 (disabled before evening)
Bus Stop (Home)	Outside	None

The Red Light tile is #color:pink to flag the night-only nature.

Owner curfew flag

If you have a Master at intensity 3+ with MasterRelationship >= 6 and you’re Downtown at TimeSlot 3+ without moved_out, the entry sets curfew_violated = true. This flag is read by Master scenes the next morning. Same logic fires on the Outside hub. Move out of the Master’s place (the kept-sissy ending bypasses the apartment) to clear it.

The Red Light District

RedLightEntry is the night-only sub-hub Downtown routes into.

The Red Light hotspots.

Choice	Routes to	Gate
Tattoo Studio	Tattoo Studio	`tattoo_discovered`
Velvet Lounge	Velvet Lounge	None at door; Fem 20 in the customer card
Maid Cafe	Maid Cafe	None
Kitten & Chrome (fetish store)	FetishStoreEntry	Sub 30 OR master_intensity 2+
Look around	RedLight_LookAround	None
Back to Downtown	Downtown	None

See Red Light District for the full sub-area writeup.

Tips and gotchas

The bus is one-way and free

Unlike the Resort bus ($15 fare), the Downtown bus has no cost or Energy hit. Use it freely to bounce between cities. The cost is purely TimeSlot, since you spend a slot getting there and another getting back.

Discovery flags are separate per location

Downtown access doesn’t auto-unlock the Office, Tattoo Studio, or Cleaning Client tiles. Each has its own discovery path: Office is a Day-7 lamppost flyer that gates on bar_outfit >= 1 (route adjusted to also need downtown_discovered); Tattoo Studio is a Day-7 street-wander pull; Cleaning Client is a separate SMS arc. If a tile is missing the morning after you unlock Downtown, you haven’t triggered the secondary flag yet.

Red Light needs the night, every visit

The TimeSlot 2 gate isn’t a one-shot. Every visit needs evening or later. Walking Downtown in TimeSlot 0 (morning) shows the Red Light tile disabled. Sleep the day forward or use the Spa to burn time if you want to be there by evening without other content getting in the way.

Outside (Neighbourhood), the parent city you bus in from.
Red Light District, the night-only sub-area.
Mall, Club, Beach, Gym, Clinic, Spa are the day routes.
Office, Tattoo Studio are the gated-discovery routes.