Housing

Every vampire needs somewhere to lie down before the Pall thins. You start in the Common Lair, a free shared room in the Underbelly. When you have the gold, the Estate Agent sells homes of your own; visit yours from your Lair.

Homes

You can own one home at a time. Married vampires share one: if both own a home, the couple chooses where to live, and either may furnish it. The homes, from smallest to grandest:
• Lodging room: from 15,000 gold
• Flat: from 150,000 gold
• Townhouse: from 1,500,000 gold
• Mansion: from 15,000,000 gold

Prices rise as homes of each kind are bought up, to as much as four times the base. The first four weeks of rates are included; after that a home costs 1% of its base price a week, and you can pay up to twelve weeks ahead. If your rates run out you get a week's grace, then the home is released. Selling, or losing a home, returns 40% of what you paid.

As more vampires play, new catacomb homes open in the Undercroft, beneath the city: rooms on Ossuary Row, flats on Vault Lane and crypt houses on Crypt Walk.

What a home gives you

• Well rested: after 8 hours away, your next 100 Actions of hunting pay more Blood and gold: +5% from a room, +10% from a flat, +15% from a townhouse and +20% from a mansion.
• Kennel space for your familiars: +1, +2, +4 or +6 slots.
• A bigger Lair chest (see below).
• A mansion makes you a Peer of the High Court, a title you keep for good.

The Lair chest

Your Lair chest is extra storage that only opens at home. It has rows of 8 slots: 3 rows in the Common Lair, 4 in a room, 6 in a flat, 8 in a townhouse and 12 in a mansion. You can buy up to 8 more rows, from 50,000 gold, each dearer than the last. Things that must not be lost, like gear from a disbanded coven's bank, go to your chest when your bags are full.

Inside

Furnish your rooms from the furniture shop (it buys plain pieces back at half price), or with finer pieces made by crafters. Bigger homes have more places to put things: 6 in a room, up to 15 in a mansion. Opal Shop finishes dress up crafted furniture. Visitors can look around and admire your home once a day, but can't change anything.

Outside

Your home's front shows on the city map, in the Undercroft and on your house card. Choose a facade, paint, window glow, gas lamp and coven banner, and add shutters, a window box, a knocker, finials or a weather vane for gold. Crafters make railings, doors, door lights, windows and gargoyles; more pieces come from the Opal Shop and the Prestige atelier. A whole house changes its whole front; in a shared building, you dress only your own window.