The house

Ten rooms. Everyone in them wants something.

The building is the game. Every man you meet is standing in a room, and the room is why he's lit the way he is. Ten of them, from the door you walk in through to the one nobody walks through alone. Pick a room on the map to see who's in it.

Route: the alley, the front desk, the cold plunge, the steam room, the locker room, a private cabin, the dark room, the dance floor, the bar, and finally the sauna.

Room by room

From the door you walk in through to the one nobody walks through alone.

The street corner. A bouncer, a queue that isn't a queue, and the decision to go in. Nothing has happened yet.

The lobby. Plexiglass check-in window, a wall of key hooks, a vending machine and a vinyl bench. Amber lamplight. This is where you find out what you cost.

The lockers. Cold fluorescent, hard shadows, everyone pretending not to look. Where things get taken and where they get found again.

The showers. Dim cool white and haze. Brief, and busier than it looks.

The steam room. Tile, not wood — a deep blue dark you can't see three feet into. The oldest arguments in the building happen here.

The hot tub and pool. Lit from below by underwater lamps, caustics crawling across the ceiling. Nobody looks good in this light. Everybody stays anyway.

The Pen. The dance floor. Fourteen men, forty-eight cards, and a DJ. You come here to recruit and you leave with whoever you got.

The bar. He's three drinks in and he has a theory about you.

The hallway. The darkest part of the building — a narrow maroon corridor of cheap louvered doors and wet rubber tile, lit by sconces. Every door is a card. This is what "cruise the hallway" means.

The private rooms. One lamp, one bed, one door that's either open or it isn't.

The dark room. A bare red bulb and not much else.

The sauna. The end of the path. Daddy is in there. You need Favor 10 and three twunks to cross the Threshold, and you don't get to see him until you do.

Nobody walks in there alone.

One email when the launch opens. Bring friends.

One email when it launches.

There are two ways past every man in this building.

You cruise the hallway — draw a Door card and meet whoever's behind it. Then you choose.

Manhandle him. Your Favor plus your gear against his Level. Beat him and you earn Daddy's Favor and whatever he was carrying. Ties go to him; he was there first.

Or seduce him. Roll a die against a target that gets harder the bigger he is. Succeed and you leave with his twunks — no fight, no treasure, no Bad Stuff. Fail and the Bad Stuff lands anyway.

Two currencies, and they want different things from you.

Favor is how you climb. Twunks are how you win — you need three of them in front of you to cross the Threshold. But a twunk is also worth +3 in a fight, and burning one is often the difference between winning tonight and winning at all. Every twunk you spend is one you have to replace before you can claim the game.