>I have (as is usually the case) very little familiarity with the
>source material, and I haven't developed a clear mental map of the
>castle's layout. Does FUEL STORAGE have a door to a kitchen or dining
>area? Nope. Its only door leads out to the hangar. The living quarters, including the kitchen, are on the other side of the building.
Familiarity with the source wouldn't help much in this case, since a) OWaW is set after the TV series and in a different place than either of them and b) the layouts of their other HQs were never explicitly established either. I did throw together a quick floorplan of the barracks wing, showing whose room is where, though as of Episode 09 it's already out of date:
As it stands now, Mio has moved across the hall to Minna's room, leaving her old one vacant; Perrine has moved to the room at the end of the hall (currently labeled "vacant"), leaving her old one empty as well; and Chris Barkhorn has moved in with Ursula Hartmann (whose assignment to that room is now official, since 404 Squadron has been made part of 501 JFW).
I should probably update that, and put together at least a crude map of the rest of the facility, in my copious free time... :)
>Because it occurred to me (way back when it was pointed out how
>little sense FUEL STORAGE makes when Striker Units don't use any fuel
>but the magic of their pilots, but I've only just now remembered while
>typing) that while the Striker Units don't need fueling, their
>pilots do, so somebody might've labeled a pantry "fuel
>storage" as a joke.
That would be a decent witticism, but unfortunately it's not the case. The people who renovated the castle sincerely believed that the witches would be keeping avgas or something in there. :)
In fairness, they do have conventional vehicles on the base, but the fuel for them is kept elsewhere.
Also, that reminds me of something I forgot to include in the annotation for the episode where it appeared. In my head, the joke about FUEL STORAGE (that it's always written and pronounced in all caps like that) has its referential roots in Dave Barry's running joke about THE SMOOT-HAWLEY TARIFF in Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States, which to me, anyway, is still his funniest book.
--G.
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