Subject: This is a fun one.
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Posted on: 2022-04-09 22:23:52 UTC

And it contains a surprising amount of world-building for HQ despite barely spending any time there!

We learn about the lack of real beds through Jay's excitement about her OFUM student dorm:

> "Pillows, Acacia." Jay beamed. "Pillows and real beds... and sheets..."

Jay and Acacia have been shown to camp out on missions, and of course Lux and Sean tease them about living together in their RC. I'm not sure they have beds at all, and if they do, I reckon they're camp cots at best. (That's all I gave Derik and Gall.)

We learn about the sanitary facilities, again by contrast with OFUM:

> There was a shriek of delight from the next room. "SHOWERS!"

> It wasn't that the Protectors didn't bathe... but the sanitary facilities at Headquarters were rather sterile, metallic places with no hot water and the faint suggestion of an assembly line.

> Acacia grinned. This was going to be more fun than she'd thought.

I wrote out my theory on the evolution of RCs with en-suite bathrooms in my story "Missing Time" and will thus not repeat it here. Yes, this is a shameless plug to get you to go read my story if you haven't. {= )

And we learn about the food:

> The fare of the PPC Agent may occasionally rise to the edibility of mutton, but more often consists of Twinkies, eggrolls, and granola bars.

In other words, whatever one can scrounge during a mission or aquire from what I suspect is the equivalent of a campus convenience store. I recall that TOS mentions a cafe at some point, but I think Architeuthis may be the first to establish a cafeteria/canteen? I guess we'll see!

~Neshomeh

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