In my honest opinion, I think we may also need to actually set up RCs for the agents we want to work with, and probably have at least one mission under our belt on our own time as well so that we can be familiar with how our own agents work before reaching out to others.

Remember, I only just received Permission a couple of days ago, and I haven't even published my first mission yet (it's in progress, but slow going due to academic research). I feel that it's best for Boarders starting out with their own RCs an Agents to get the hang of what their own stories are like, so they can set a precedent for themselves and for possible collaborators.

There had been a tradition that as long as you wrote with someone who had permission, cowrites were acceptable.

Personally, I subscribe to the idea that HQ seems to move continuously. Just because you walked out your door, turned left, then right, then passed three intersections, turned left again and the Cafeteria is the first door on the right one day that that will ever be the directions to get to the Cafeteria from your RC ever again. (Unless of course, you were trying to explain that to a newbie and it suddenly was the same route several times in a row, just so the Ironic Overpower could screw with you).

In which case, your neighbors would constantly be changing. I don't remember which story I got the idea from originally, but it was one where an agent taped a piece of string to the door across the hall, went to sleep, and the next morning the string seemed to be miles long and led through Escher rooms or something like that.

It might all be an illusion, because our four dimensional minds can't properly perceive the reality of HQ, which is why when agents addle themselves and don't pay attention to where they are going, some part of their subconscious makes the right direction choices where if they were thinking about it they'd go the wrong way constantly because of the false perceptions.

Anyway, that might not make any sense, but there's the basics of how I how I see movement in HQ