The house by the canal behind the Feast of Hathor club is open. Walk up to its door, press “Enter”, and you are in your own cell by the canal: a bed, a stool, a small chest, a water jar, a lamp and a reed mat are already in place as housewarming gifts. Once a day the niche of Bes by the door holds the gift of the house — debens for the host.
There are ten levels, each a floor higher and roomier than the last: a craftsman’s house with a kitchen courtyard, rooms with a loggia over the palms, a scribe’s villa with a harp, a house with a terrace garden, a noble’s house with servants and a statue of the host. From level 8 the chambers become a palace with a treasury, a chapel for a patron god, a harpist on a dais and a poker table for you and your guests. At the very top, under the disk of the Aten, the host rewards guests from the window of appearances with the gold of honour.
The “Furnish” button lets you move, turn and store furniture and buy more: over sixty pieces after finds from Egyptian tombs and palaces, most of them in four tiers — plain, painted, inlaid and gilded. You decide who can come in — nobody, your friends or everyone — and a guest can leave you a lotus once a day.
Everything about the levels, the furniture and the guests is on the Palace on the Nile page.
