# SAFEHOUSE --- LOCATION SHEET v1.0 **Status:** Active Canon Reference\ **Location:** Watson, Night City\ **Legal / Paper Owner:** O'Sullivan SAS\ **Primary Function:** Home, secure residence, operational base, social center, workshop site, and protected meeting location. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # I. IDENTITY & STATUS The Safehouse occupies the **entire upper floor of a former two-story commercial building in Watson**. On paper, the building is owned by **O'Sullivan SAS**. The Safehouse is not merely an operational site. It is a functioning home. Its physical organization supports both security and ordinary domestic life, and its narrative identity depends on both remaining true at the same time. The Safehouse should feel inhabited rather than staged: people cook, work, sleep, argue, recover, host friends, prepare for jobs, leave equipment lying around, make coffee, celebrate, and return home. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # II. BUILDING CONTEXT - Former commercial building. - Two stories above ground. - The Safehouse occupies the **entire upper floor**. - The building also includes a **Safehouse-controlled underground parking / bulk-storage level**. - Street-level access connects to the dedicated stair route leading to the Safehouse. - The building is in **Watson**. - Exact street, exterior dimensions, compass orientation, façade layout, and neighboring businesses are **not currently locked canon**. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # III. ACCESS & SECURITY ## III.1 Street Entrance Access from the street begins at an **armored lower door**. The lower door uses an **automatic arrival / identity recognition system**. Recognition at the lower access point can identify an authorized arrival and transmit that information upward before the person reaches the Safehouse proper. The lower door is therefore both: - a physical security barrier; and - an automated identification checkpoint. Automatic recognition does **not** imply automatic access through the upper Safehouse door. ## III.2 Main Stairwell From the street-level entrance, a dedicated stair route leads upward toward the Safehouse. This stair route creates physical separation between the street and the residential level. ## III.3 Upper Safehouse Door The actual entrance into the Safehouse is a second **armored door** at the upper level. This door is **always opened manually from the Safehouse side**. It does not automatically open merely because the lower recognition system has identified an authorized person. The upper entrance has a **doorbell / camera-image system** allowing occupants to see arrivals before opening the door. The security sequence is therefore: > **Street → armored lower door / automatic recognition → stairwell → > armored upper door / manual opening → Safehouse** The two armored doors are separate security boundaries with different operating logic. ## III.4 Arrival Information Authorized recognition at the lower level can produce identity / arrival information on a display inside the Safehouse before the visitor reaches the upper door. The upper doorbell remains a separate event. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # IV. VERTICAL STRUCTURE The Safehouse complex operates across several vertically connected zones even though the actual residence occupies one floor. ## IV.1 Rooftop A usable rooftop exists above the Safehouse. Access is by **ladder located beside the reinforced upper Safehouse door**. The rooftop is an accessible location, not merely exterior scenery. No additional permanent rooftop structures are currently locked canon. ## IV.2 Safehouse / Upper Floor The entire upper floor forms the primary Safehouse. Confirmed functions on this level include: - main living / common area; - kitchen; - Triad bedroom; - six additional bedrooms; - two bathrooms; - Brenda's workshop; - two storage rooms; - large balcony area; - circulation / hallway space; - upper armored entrance. ## IV.3 Ground / Street Level The ground level contains the street-access route into the building and the internal connection between underground access and the stairs leading toward the Safehouse. The Safehouse does **not** occupy the commercial ground-floor space as ordinary residential floor area unless later canon explicitly establishes otherwise. ## IV.4 Underground Level The Safehouse property includes an **underground parking / large-item storage area**. Its currently established practical use is primarily **parking**. The underground level is suitable for storing larger objects, but no specific permanent inventory should be assumed unless established by story canon. Stairs lead from the underground level to ground level. From there, an internal route connects to the stair system leading to the Safehouse above. Conceptual route: > **Underground parking / bulk storage → stairs → ground-level interior > connection → Safehouse stair route → upper armored door** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # V. PRIMARY SPATIAL TOPOLOGY Exact dimensions and compass directions are deliberately not locked. The following relationships are established strongly enough for production use: > **Upper armored entrance → central / living zone** The upper entrance opens directly into, or immediately adjacent to, the principal inhabited area. Arriving characters can encounter people in the living area without a long intermediate route. > **Main living / common area ↔ kitchen** The kitchen is immediately accessible from the central living zone. Characters routinely move between them during continuous conversation. > **Main living / central zone ↔ hallway / residential circulation** The hallway leads away from the central social area toward the bedrooms. > **Central / hallway junction ↔ Brenda's workshop** Brenda's workshop is close enough to the main circulation and living area that movement, voices, mechanical noise, and activity can carry between them. > **Hallway → bedroom zone** The Triad bedroom, Brenda and Iris's bedroom, and the remaining extra bedrooms belong to this residential circulation system. > **Hallway end → shared bathroom** The second bathroom is located at the end of the extra-bedroom hallway. > **Triad bedroom → private ensuite bathroom** The Triad bedroom has its own bathroom. These relationships define **topology**, not an architectural floor plan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # VI. MAIN LIVING / COMMON AREA The Safehouse has a large principal communal space referred to in story usage as the **living room**, **common room**, or **main living area**. These terms should normally be treated as the same central social zone unless future canon explicitly distinguishes them. Confirmed or strongly established features include: - a substantial couch; - chairs; - table / table space; - adjustable interior lighting; - enough open floor space for several people to gather comfortably; - direct or near-direct connection to the kitchen; - easy access to the residential hallway; - close relationship to Brenda's workshop; - proximity to the upper entrance. The couch has enough clearance around it for people to move fully around it. This is the **social center of gravity** of the Safehouse. Typical uses include: - casual conversation; - group meetings; - celebrations; - decompression after work; - coffee; - arguments; - waiting for arrivals; - demonstrations of Brenda's inventions; - relationship and family moments; - informal planning. The room should feel like a lived-in home first and a briefing room only when the characters make it one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # VII. KITCHEN A dedicated kitchen exists adjacent to or immediately accessible from the main living area. Confirmed usage includes: - making and carrying coffee; - food preparation; - eating; - gathering during ordinary domestic activity; - private or semi-private conversation slightly removed from the living-room group. A counter exists and can be leaned against. Tables used for food, dessert, drinks, or communal activity may be located in the kitchen or central living zone; their exact architectural placement is not currently locked. Do not invent a detailed appliance inventory unless a story requires and establishes it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # VIII. RESIDENTIAL WING The Safehouse contains: - **one Triad bedroom**; and - **six additional bedrooms**. Total established bedrooms: > **7 bedrooms** The bedrooms are reached through the residential hallway / circulation zone. ## VIII.1 Triad Bedroom The Triad bedroom belongs to: - Ace; - Mai; - Shammy. It is their shared private room and the most private established domestic zone in the Safehouse. The room contains a shared bed and normal personal storage / dressing functionality as required by established story use. It has a **private ensuite bathroom**. Narratively, the Triad bedroom is where the scale of the Safehouse contracts from communal home to the Triad's private life. Do not treat the room as a ceremonial romance set. It is an ordinary, heavily familiar bedroom that has accumulated relationship history. ## VIII.2 Six Extra Bedrooms Six additional bedrooms exist. One is currently established as the shared bedroom of: - **Brenda** - **Iris** The permanent or temporary assignment of the remaining five rooms is **not locked by this sheet**. Do not automatically assign a room to every recurring Safehouse visitor. In particular, visiting, working from the Safehouse, being family, or frequently sleeping over does not by itself establish permanent residence. ## VIII.3 Brenda & Iris Bedroom Brenda and Iris live at the Safehouse and share one of the six extra bedrooms. Their room is located along the residential hallway. Voices can carry from their closed room into the hallway / central home strongly enough for comedic or ordinary household interaction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # IX. BATHROOMS The Safehouse has exactly **two established bathrooms**. ## IX.1 Triad Ensuite Located directly in connection with the Triad bedroom. Primary use is private to the Triad unless story circumstances establish otherwise. ## IX.2 Shared Hallway Bathroom Located at the **end of the extra-bedroom hallway**. This serves the additional bedrooms and general residential needs. Do not create additional bathrooms, guest toilets, or washrooms without an explicit canon update. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # X. BRENDA'S WORKSHOP Brenda has a dedicated workshop / workroom inside the Safehouse. It is a distinct room with a door that can be opened or closed. The workshop is close to the main living and circulation areas. Established characteristics: - active technical workspace; - machinery and tools may produce audible noise elsewhere in the Safehouse; - prototypes can be brought directly from the workshop into the common area; - the room is recognizably Brenda's working territory; - workshop activity is part of the normal acoustic life of the home. The workshop should not be treated as a generic laboratory. It is a working room shaped by Brenda's habits, projects, improvisation, and ongoing technical activity. Exact benches, machine inventory, dimensions, ventilation systems, and equipment layout remain story-dependent unless separately locked. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # XI. STORAGE The Safehouse contains **two separate storage rooms**. ## XI.1 General Storage One room is used for ordinary storage. Exact inventory is not permanently fixed. ## XI.2 Secure Storage The second room functions as **secure storage**. It provides protected storage for items requiring greater access control or security. The Safehouse does **not** have a dedicated armory. Weapons or operational equipment may be stored securely where canon permits, but writers should not silently transform the secure storage room into an armory. ## XI.3 Underground Bulk Storage The underground parking area can also support storage of physically large items. This is distinct from the two upper-floor storage rooms. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # XII. BALCONY The upper Safehouse level includes a **large balcony / terrace area**. It is large enough to function as a genuine communal outdoor space rather than a narrow architectural balcony. Established use includes: - grill evenings; - group socializing; - relaxed outdoor time. The balcony is part of Safehouse domestic life. Exact access door, compass orientation, railing design, street view, furniture inventory, and dimensions are not currently locked. Do not assume the balcony and rooftop are the same space. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # XIII. ROOFTOP The building's rooftop is separately accessible. Access is via **ladder beside the upper reinforced / armored Safehouse door**. The rooftop is distinct from the large balcony. Its exact dimensions, equipment, sightlines, defensive use, utility structures, and furnishings remain unlocked unless established elsewhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # XIV. UNDERGROUND PARKING / BULK STORAGE The underground area belongs to the Safehouse property. Primary established function: - secure / private parking. Secondary structural capability: - storage of large objects. The parking area connects upward by stairs to ground level and from there internally to the route leading toward the Safehouse stairwell. Do not assume the underground level contains: - a workshop; - an armory; - living quarters; - a command center; - a vehicle lift; - a hidden tunnel; - direct stair access into the upper residence; unless later canon establishes one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # XV. CURRENT RESIDENCY & USE ## XV.1 Confirmed Residents Confirmed Safehouse residents include: - Ace; - Mai; - Shammy; - Brenda; - Iris. Ace, Mai, and Shammy share the Triad bedroom. Brenda and Iris share one extra bedroom. ## XV.2 Frequent Visitors / Family Are Not Automatically Residents Reyes and Kiro are established as people who can come over, spend significant time at the Safehouse, and function as family without thereby becoming permanent residents. The same distinction applies generally: > **Safehouse family status ≠ permanent room assignment.** Permanent occupancy should be established explicitly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # XVI. SECURITY BEHAVIOR Security should be written as habitual infrastructure rather than constant exposition. Normal arrival behavior: 1. A person reaches the armored street-level access. 2. The lower system recognizes / identifies the arrival where applicable. 3. Arrival information can appear inside the Safehouse. 4. The person ascends the stair route. 5. The upper doorbell / camera provides immediate arrival confirmation. 6. Someone inside manually opens the armored upper door. 7. The upper door is manually closed again. The Safehouse therefore combines automated awareness with deliberate human control. This is intentional. > **Recognition is automatic. Final entry is human.** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # XVII. ACOUSTIC & SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY The Safehouse is not acoustically sterile. Sound can carry between: - workshop and central living area; - hallway and living area; - bedrooms and hallway; - communal spaces during ordinary household activity. This supports the established feeling that people remain present in the home even when they are not in the same room. Closed doors create privacy, but not necessarily perfect acoustic isolation. Do not treat every room as soundproof unless canon specifically establishes it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # XVIII. NARRATIVE GEOGRAPHY ## XVIII.1 Common Room --- The Home's Center The common/living area is where the household becomes visible as a household. It is appropriate for: - arrivals; - reunions; - group comedy; - family arguments; - announcements; - celebrations; - spontaneous gatherings; - ordinary coexistence. ## XVIII.2 Kitchen --- Domestic Side Channel The kitchen allows conversation to step slightly away from the central group without becoming formally private. It is appropriate for: - coffee; - food; - quieter conversations; - people drifting in and out; - morning and late-night domestic beats. ## XVIII.3 Hallway --- Transition Space The residential hallway is useful as a threshold between communal and private life. Characters may stop there, overhear others, choose whether to enter a room, or move between group life and private space. ## XVIII.4 Triad Bedroom --- Inner Home The Triad bedroom is not simply another bedroom. Narratively it represents the private interior of Ace, Mai, and Shammy's shared life. ## XVIII.5 Workshop --- Brenda's Territory The workshop gives Brenda spatial ownership inside the Safehouse. Her work can intrude acoustically or physically into communal life, which is part of the home's established rhythm. ## XVIII.6 Balcony --- Communal Outdoor Home The balcony extends Safehouse social life outside without leaving home. Grill evenings and similar gatherings belong naturally here. ## XVIII.7 Rooftop --- Separate Exterior Layer The rooftop is a distinct accessible exterior space with a different relationship to the home than the balcony. Do not collapse rooftop and balcony into one location. ## XVIII.8 Underground Parking --- Operational Threshold The parking level is where vehicles and large physical logistics can enter the Safehouse property without becoming part of the upper-floor domestic environment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # XIX. KNOWN ROUTES ## XIX.1 Normal Street Arrival > Street → armored lower door → recognition → stairwell → armored upper > door → main Safehouse / living zone ## XIX.2 Underground Arrival > Underground parking → stairs → ground-level internal connection → > upper stair route → armored upper door → Safehouse ## XIX.3 Communal to Private > Living/common area → hallway → residential rooms ## XIX.4 Triad Night Route > Common area → hallway → Triad bedroom → ensuite bathroom ## XIX.5 Guest / Resident Bathroom Route > Extra-bedroom hallway → shared bathroom at hallway end ## XIX.6 Workshop Route > Central / hallway area → Brenda's workshop ## XIX.7 Rooftop Route > Upper entrance area → ladder beside upper armored door → rooftop Exact distances are not canon unless separately established. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # XX. PHYSICAL CHARACTER The Safehouse should not read as a pristine luxury apartment or anonymous tactical bunker. It is: - secure; - practical; - heavily lived in; - capable of supporting operational work; - domestic; - social; - occasionally chaotic; - historically imperfect. The building has been described through the household's history as capable of becoming **occasionally bullet-damaged**. Repairs, wear, improvised solutions, technical additions, and accumulated domestic history are compatible with the location. Security and warmth coexist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # XXI. PRODUCTION RULES FOR WRITERS ## XXI.1 Do Not Invent Geometry Casually If a scene requires movement between known spaces, use the established topology. Do not casually establish: - compass directions; - exact room dimensions; - exact corridor lengths; - exact balcony orientation; - exact window placement; - a new staircase; - an elevator; - a new exterior entrance; - an additional bathroom; - an additional bedroom; - a direct underground-to-residence staircase; unless the addition is deliberately approved as new canon. ## XXI.2 Topology Before Blueprint The Safehouse has reliable **relationships between spaces**, but no fully locked architectural blueprint. Writers may stage scenes flexibly inside those relationships. ## XXI.3 Home Before Headquarters Even during operational scenes, remember that people live here. Coffee, clothing, food, unfinished projects, closed bedroom doors, conversations through walls, furniture, visitors, laughter, recovery, and ordinary irritation are part of the location's identity. ## XXI.4 Security Without Ritualized Exposition Characters familiar with the Safehouse do not explain its security systems to one another every time someone arrives. Show systems through behavior. ## XXI.5 Residence Is Canon Do not assign a permanent bedroom or Safehouse residency merely for convenience. ## XXI.6 No Armory There is no dedicated armory. Secure storage is not automatically an armory. ## XXI.7 Balcony ≠ Rooftop They are separate spaces with separate access and narrative uses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # XXII. DO NOT ASSUME / CURRENTLY UNLOCKED Unless established by later canon, do **not** assume: - exact exterior appearance; - exact street address; - compass orientation; - exact floor dimensions; - exact room dimensions; - exact bedroom order along the hallway; - which five remaining extra bedrooms belong to whom; - additional bathrooms; - dedicated armory; - elevator; - rooftop structures; - balcony orientation or exact access point; - fire escape; - exact number or position of windows; - exact kitchen appliance inventory; - exact workshop equipment inventory; - direct underground access into the upper residence; - hidden tunnels; - dedicated medical room; - dedicated briefing room; - dedicated gym; - dedicated server room; - dedicated laundry room; - permanent defensive emplacements. Absence from this sheet does not prove that an ordinary building feature cannot exist. It means the feature is **not currently canon-locked and must not become plot-relevant established geography by accident**. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # XXIII. CANON SUMMARY The Safehouse is a secure, inhabited upper-floor home in a former commercial building in Watson, legally owned by O'Sullivan SAS. Its defining physical logic is layered access: > **underground / street → controlled building access → armored lower > security boundary → stair route → manually controlled armored upper > boundary → home** Its defining internal logic is: > **central communal life → residential hallway → private rooms** Its defining social logic is: > **home first, operational base second --- without ever ceasing to be > secure.** The Safehouse works because its defenses do not erase its warmth, and its warmth does not erase the fact that the people living there have reasons to need armored doors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # APPENDIX A --- QUICK REFERENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Area Canon Status Key Facts ----------------------- ----------------------- ------------------------ Building Locked Former two-story commercial building in Watson Ownership Locked O'Sullivan SAS owns building on paper Safehouse floor Locked Entire upper floor Lower street door Locked Armored; automatic arrival recognition Upper Safehouse door Locked Armored; always manually opened Stair route Locked Street level to upper Safehouse Living/common area Confirmed Central social space; couch, chairs/table use, open gathering area Kitchen Confirmed Adjacent / immediately accessible from living zone; counter Triad bedroom Locked Ace + Mai + Shammy; shared private room Triad bathroom Locked Ensuite Extra bedrooms Locked Six Brenda + Iris room Confirmed Shared extra bedroom; permanent residents Shared bathroom Locked At end of extra-bedroom hallway Brenda's workshop Locked Dedicated room; close to central circulation Storage rooms Locked Two Secure storage Locked One of two storage rooms; not a dedicated armory Balcony Locked Large communal balcony; grill evenings Rooftop Locked Separate from balcony; ladder access beside upper armored door Underground level Locked Parking / large-item storage; parking currently established use Underground route Locked Stairs to ground level; internal connection to Safehouse stair route Exact blueprint Unlocked Topology only; dimensions/orientation not canon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # APPENDIX B --- OCCUPANCY SNAPSHOT Space Established Occupancy ----------------- ----------------------- Triad bedroom Ace / Mai / Shammy Extra bedroom Brenda / Iris Extra bedroom 2 Unassigned Extra bedroom 3 Unassigned Extra bedroom 4 Unassigned Extra bedroom 5 Unassigned Extra bedroom 6 Unassigned This table records **permanent established occupancy only**. Temporary guests and frequent visitors do not automatically change it.