The Basement

I can't get over that 5000 people watched me debug shitty code for 3 full hours on stream today. I'm increasingly realizing that my viewers are insane, or trapped in my basement and forced to watch, or both

-Douglas Wreden, Twitter

Description
The Basement is a large underground complex beneath Douglas Wreden's house, next to the Grocery Store. It is the unwilling home of all of his Twitch and Youtube viewers. The Basement claims its victims through the The Joke Hole. The Joke Hole serves as a portal to and from the Basement, though it is very rare for a victim to climb back out of the Joke Hole as it is guarded by spiders.

Allegedly, Doug has been feeding victims of the basement via a 'Food Tube', but most of this food is destroyed while being fought over.

The Sectors
The Basement is made up of sectors, each with their own unique community. The sector a new victim is sent to is decided by the first letter of their Twitch username or real life name. Every sector is either inside Zone A or Zone Z.

Zone A
Zone A is reputed as the more chaotic of the two. The Mario Party character of choice here is Waluigi and the food here is all Guy Fieri recipes.

Sector B
This entire sector is filled with a 5 feet tall pile of ball pit balls. Cardboard cutouts of orcas lurk throughout this sector, swimming through the ball pit ball sea and terrifying unsuspecting victims. The ball pit is known to be stained with breastmilk in some areas. There is also an alarming amount of bees in this sector.

Sector C
This sector is home to most of the chefs of the Basement. Most residents of this sector are depressed, due to the Explained with Food series being over. This area is known for storing many delicacies such as Dog Cheese and Breastmilk.

Sector E
This sector contains the only exit out of the Basement: the Joke Hole. It also harbors a large nest of spiders which guard the exit. The majority of Sector E residents are part of the Spider Cult, worshippers of the spiders.

Sector F
The residents of this sector worship Fat Albert like a deity. The entirety of the floor, walls and ceiling of this sector are covered in Fat Albert posters. They also have their own game studio, Sector F Studios, which developed the game Douggle: Agent of Chatlantis.

Sector G
This is area is known for being the sector where most of the guns in the Basement are manufactured. There is a significant population of Gunicorns, horses with guns on their heads, in this sector. The residents here are known for saying "GOTTEM" after every single deez nuts joke.

Sector J
This sector contains a fake escape hatch built by Doug to trick his prisoners. This escape hatch, according to DougDoug Discord member RevJimJones#8744, leads to Jerma's meat grinder. It is also where the basement rats' nest resides.

Sector L
This sector is where the cult of Moth Nation resides. Moth Nation worships everything involving moths and worships Doug (despite his murder of a moth) and moths. Everything in Moth Nation is adorned moth engravings and their shrine is a singular table lamp with Doug's face taped on it. Moth Nation attempted to settle Sector M but were fought off by Crew Z.

Sector M
This sector acts as a battlefield during the periodic wars between Teams A and Z. It contains crumbled structures that remain as evidence of frequent but failed attempts to settle the land. When war is declared, the sector will fill with banana fire and the stench of hot sauce fills the air. Sector M is not considered a residential area by both sides, though some live there as scavengers in hopes of finding something that will give them enough oxygen to live the rest of their lives comfortably.

Zone Z
Zone Z is known to be more dangerous with significantly more insane residents. The Mario Party character of choice here is Wario and the food here is all Gordon Ramsay recipes.

Sector O
This sector is the home of the Oxygen Banking Institution (OBI), which houses the Basement's supply of Oxygen, although the bank has failed numerous times, due to people withdrawing to much of the resource. This is also the home of Rosa the Sea Otter, who lives in the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Pools of Olive Oil reside here as well, which has and addictive side effect if consumed too much.

Sector P
This sector is known for being submerged in gay peanut butter. While it is common in many sectors, it is most common here, and is thought to be where the peanut butter originates. The peanut butter is at constant knee length throughout the sector, and in some cases, even reaching the celling, making it difficult to move. The substance has an effect where individuals in contact with it for too long, will eventually turn gay.

In areas with significantly less peanut butter, there are numerous shrines to Parkzer scattered around, with people offering up their Dollarydoos or Oxygen, in exchange for Financial and Legal advice.

Sector W
This sector is filled with pictures, carboard cutouts and body pillows of shirtless Wario and Waluigi. Most residents of the sector do not know how to speak and instead say "wah!" all the time.

The Neutral Areas
Some sectors of The Basement are neutral, either too dangerous or spiritually important to be claimed by either side or bad enough that nobody wants them. Some say the near-dead remnants of a crazed cult known as the Number Crew live in these parts.

Sector 9
Sector 9 houses The Colosseum, where members of Twitch Chat have been forced to fight each other to the death. This also happens to be where most of the few A-Z alliances have been formed, making it a grand monument of peace as well as war.

The Minecraft Server
The Minecraft Server is located somewhere within the Basement.

Ecosystem
The ecosystem of Doug's basement is quite complex, with unique species residing within each sector.

Naturally Occurring Species

 * Spiders (Multiple Sectors)
 * Rats (Sector J)
 * Ketchup (Sector K)
 * Bees (Sector B)
 * Twitch Chat (Multiple Sectors)
 * Gay Peanut Butter (Multiple Sectors)
 * Gunicorns (Sector G)

Imported species
During the stream "Letting an A.I. decide my next GTA 5 video," Doug imported several different species of animals in order to help contain the rats.


 * Cats (To take care of the rats)
 * [WORK IN PROGRESS, WILL FINISH LATER]

Oxygen and Hydrogen
Due to the fact that the Basement is an enclosed space, there are times where Oxygen becomes in extremely low supply, and people start to suffocate. Doug has capitalized on this, by having people pay to breath affordable oxygen. The current pricing for Oxygen is 500 DYD (Official United States Dollarydoos, AKA Channel Points).

Because that the Oxygen supply is being capitalized on, some Basement dwellers have started using Hydrogen as a substitute. The success of Hydrogen as a substitute is not entirely known, as there does exist some health benefits, but long term usage is very discouraged due to the fact that your body does not gain energy from it, and you will have a very high chance of getting asphyxiation from lack of Oxygen.

Politics

 * The basement residents are in a trading alliance with fellow streamer Failboat's basement.
 * A political entity known as the Party People of the Basement have made attempts at governing the basement, although they have been mostly futile, and most of the power is held by A Crew and Z Crew.
 * The governing system of the basement goes as follows; Zone A and all territories under A Crew are of a Chatican Fartocracy, while Zone Z and all territories under Z Crew are of a Shatocratic Fartpublic.
 * The Basement dwellers and The Grocery Store dwellers are currently at war, but due to the fact that they have no way of making direct combat, they just yell at each other on Doug's stream.

Trivia

 * According to Doug in the stream Letting an A.I. decide my next GTA 5 video, the ketchup pays the most rent of anything else in the basement.
 * In the stream Twitch Chat is the CEO of my new Zoo, Doug says you get a softer bed in the basement if you are subbed.
 * Doug has claimed that initially he had only put a few people in the basement, and that its possible that they've reproduced, and that the currently very large population is partially descended from that initial batch.
 * There have been rumors of a Meth Lab existing somewhere in the basement, although it has never been found.
 * One of the only times that Doug has ever let Twitch Chatters out of the basement, was in the Americans vs Europeans TABS stream (vod), where as a reward for winning the war, the Europeans were able to move from the basement to the Attic, a major upgrade as in the attic you can see the sun again.
 * Doug has almost never let a Twitch Chatter out into an area that is not under his control though.

Entrances

 * Entering the Joke Hole will drop you into a seemingly random sector.
 * An unknown entrance in The Backyard will send you here.
 * It is possible that by entering any door within your home, you will instead be transported to the basement. It is theorized that Doug has altered Skyrim Modder ddmlink's famous Skyrim Door Randomizer mod, to be able to affect specific targets instead of random locations, to claim more victims to the basement. There is only one recorded individual who got trapped via this method, so the threat of this method is low.
 * There is an unknown entrance within the Zelda: Breath of the Wild map, as Doug claims that he sent a truffle to the basement by throwing it down a river.

Exits

 * There are no known confirmed exits in The Basement other than back through The Joke Hole.
 * It is speculated that there is a possible crawlspace that is hidden in Sector C, which leads out of the basement. Although no attempts at escape have been successful, as everyone who claim to have seen the crawlspace say that Doug has sprayed it heavily with Raid.