Location

The Kennel

A members-only back room behind the fetish boutique, where Madame Mira runs pet-play, rope, and the deeper end of submission.

Quick facts

Where: Behind the STAFF curtain at Kitten & Chrome (the fetish store)
Host: [[char:mira|Madame Mira]]
Unlock: Submission 40+ and own a chastity cage (cage_tier >= 1)
Tracks: Kitten (3 stages), Puppy (3 stages), Bondage (5 stages), Switch, Auction
Safeword: A yellow choice in every scene, always, no consequence
Tracked vars: mira_relationship, mira_trust, mira_pet_devotion, mira_safewords_used
Patreon-gated?: No. All content available to free players.

TL;DR

The Kennel is the door at the back of the fetish boutique. Ask Mira about the back room once you carry yourself submissively enough (Sub 40+) and own a cage, and she takes you through a calibration conversation that opens the arc. From there it is a session hub: kitten headspace, puppy headspace, or rope, each on its own progression ladder. Every scene carries a real safeword, and the whole thing reads differently depending on whether you are on the Master route or independent.

What the Kennel is

When you first ask the clerk about the back room, she locks the front door, flips the OPEN sign, and introduces herself by name: Mira. The room behind the velvet STAFF curtain is stone-walled, lit warm amber with a pink LED line at the floor edge, a walnut counter with a tray of collars, a leather wing-back chair, and a deeper room through an arch. It is hers, and she offers it to you.

This is the game’s kink deep-dive space. It does not overlap with the bar, the spa, or the Master’s own scenes. It is a separate, deliberate place you choose to walk into, and Mira frames it that way: you meet here, never anywhere else, and the shop floor is a different conversation.

Unlocking and entering

Entry is from the fetish store. The choice “Ask the clerk about the back room” appears when all of the following are true:

The kink deep-dive content is enabled for the run.
Submission is 40 or higher.
You own a chastity cage (cage_tier >= 1).

Picking it runs Mira_Introduction, a one-time calibration beat. Mira asks three questions, restraint, headspace, and your hard line, then has you pick a safeword and sets the ground rules. Your answers seed which tracks open: a kitten appetite, a puppy appetite, a bondage appetite, or any combination. After the intro, the “Through the velvet curtain (the Kennel)” choice replaces it, and you return straight to the hub on later visits.

The calibration intro

The three questions are not flavour, they decide your menu:

Restraint. Saying you think about it constantly or that you are curious opens the rope track. Saying “soft is fine, not yet” keeps rope off the menu.
Headspace. Kitten (soft, curls, drinks from the bowl), Puppy (eager, fetches, gets praised), Both, or Neither (just rope). Kitten nudges Femininity, Puppy nudges Submission, Both nudges both.
The line. What Mira never does, even if you ask mid-scene. Your phrasing here builds early trust.

She then explains the safeword: a yellow choice in every scene, taken any time, no consequence, the session stops and you go home. Completing the intro sets your relationship with her to its first tier and drops you into the session hub.

The session hub

Each track is a ladder. Stages are gated on Submission, on Mira’s trust in you, and on a three-day spacing between sessions, so the arc unfolds over in-game days rather than in one sitting. Everything below is roughly Submission and Shame heavy, with Femininity gains weighted toward the kitten track.

Track	Stages	Shape
Kitten	3	Cushion and collar fitting, choosing your collar at the mirror, a recital in front of an audience or a peer
Puppy	3	First fitting and eager posture, heel/sit/come drills on the leash, a leashed walk with a presented climax
Bondage (rope)	5	Wrist tie, karada body harness, hogtie, partial suspension, mummification
Switch	1	A kitten-to-puppy crossover, unlocked after both pet tracks reach stage 3
Auction	repeating	An evening on the block, after a pet track stage 3 and Sub 70, on a 30-day cooldown

There is also a “Talk to Mira” option for relationship flavour and for adding a track you skipped at the intro, and a “Leave the Kennel” exit back to the shop.

Rope is its own progression

The bondage track is the longest and is built like a skill tree. The spine of it is Mira’s trust (mira_trust): partial suspension needs trust 5, mummification needs trust 8, on top of climbing Submission gates (50, 60, 70, 80) and the three-day spacing. You earn trust by completing stages and by giving thoughtful answers in the intro. Suspension and mummification are the deep end and are deliberately slow to reach.

Master route vs independent

Every scene has two framings driven by your route:

On the Master route, Mira often defers to an absent or present Master: you hand her a sealed envelope with his instructions, he picks your collar, he brings guests to watch. These nights feed your standing with him and ping you a morning text afterward (“Mira told me how you looked on the cushion. Good kitten.”).
On the independent route, Mira asks for your verbal consent at every escalation, teaches you the why of each rope wrap, and frames the surrender as something you chose. No Master, no follow-up text.

The stat outcomes are the same either way; the meaning differs.

Explicit beats, spoilers

The pet tracks center on kitten ears, a belled pink collar, and a tail-plug (puppy gets a pup mask, a heart-tagged collar, and a leash). Sessions move from kneeling and drinking from the bowl, through wearing the collar at the mirror, to a recital or leashed walk that ends in a hands-free climax driven by the plug while the cage stays locked. The rope track climbs from a simple wrist tie to a torso karada, a hogtie, a partial suspension off a ceiling ring, and finally full mummification (sensory deprivation), the deepest beat, with Mira monitoring beside you the whole time. The auction puts you on a lit platform with a brass ring while five guests bid on one evening: you pick the gear you wear (kitten, puppy, or rope), and the outfit shapes who commits. On the Master route he almost always wins and keeps you in front of the others. On the independent route the gear decides the buyer, Vivienne for the pet versions, Dr. Mercer for rope. Each climactic beat ships its own hero shot.

The safeword and limits

The safeword is real and tracked. Taking it ends the session cleanly, Mira removes the gear with care, no judgment, and you go home with a small Shame nudge for stopping. Each use increments a counter (mira_safewords_used).

After three cumulative safewords, the next visit triggers a recalibration conversation instead of a session. Mira sits you down, says “three times now, that’s not a complaint, that’s information,” and takes things off the table: you can drop the kitten side, the puppy side, the rope, or ask for a break entirely. The counter resets and you try again when you mean it. This is a designed beat, not a punishment, the system is built to bend around what is not landing for you.

Stats and mechanics it touches

Submission is the primary currency in and out: it gates entry and most stages, and rises 1 to 4 per scene.
Femininity rises on the kitten track and the switch session.
Shame ramps up in the later/exposed stages (recital, leashed walk, auction).
Arousal spikes hard in scene and is partly relieved at climax via do_relief, so sessions double as a managed-arousal outlet while the cage stays on. See the stats guide for how Arousal and relief interact with chastity.
Energy costs run 20 to 40 per session, so the Kennel is a real time-and-energy commitment, not a quick action. Sessions advance one TimeSlot.
Master route sessions also grant standing with the Master and queue a next-morning text.

Relationship depth with Mira is tracked across mira_relationship (overall tier), mira_trust (the rope-track gate), and mira_pet_devotion (pet-track devotion).

Mira

The host is Madame Mira, the same woman who runs the Kitten & Chrome counter. On the shop floor she is the anonymous clerk; the moment she gives you her name in the intro, she becomes Mira for the rest of the run. She is calm, dry, precise, never cruel and never giddy, the kind of dominant whose authority comes from competence. See her character page for portrait canon and how the shop and the Kennel connect.

Tips and gotchas

You need a cage before Mira will open the door

The gate checks cage_tier >= 1. Buy and own a chastity cage from the fetish store first, and reach Submission 40, before the back-room choice appears.

Stages are paced over days, not minutes

Most second-and-later stages require three days since the previous one in that track, plus a higher Submission gate. You cannot grind the whole ladder in one afternoon, the Kennel arc is meant to unfold across the run.

The safeword has no penalty with Mira

Taking the yellow choice costs you nothing with her, the small Shame nudge is the only effect, and three uses earn you a genuine recalibration where you trim the menu. It is a tool, not a failure state.

Free players see everything

The Kennel has no is_patreon() gates anywhere in its content. The kitten, puppy, and rope tracks, the switch session, and the auction are all available regardless of Patreon status. (An old code comment in the source claims otherwise; it is stale.)

Mira, the host, and the fetish store she runs out front.
Master, whose route reframes every Kennel scene and texts you after.
Chastity for the cage that gates entry and stays locked through every climax.
Stats for how Submission, Shame, and Arousal compose here.