Bunkhouse

Purpose / Function

Bunkhouses are buildings in Cochel that are used to house children 10-19 that have no home or guardians. These buildings are used to sell cheap labor for easy jobs that children can do without harm to themselves. All earnings have a percentage taken out to keep the bunkhouse running. If someone does not contribute enough to the bunkhouse each month, they are placed with a foster guardian. Jobs themselves are given via a job board just inside the bunkhouse, where some jobs have age restrictions due to what children are legally allowed to do for work within Cochel.

Bunkhouses often become large families, with everyone taking care of each other. Jobs are fought over occasionally, but these are often small arguments. Whichever bunkhouses make more money altogether get better food, faster repairs, and other similar perks. Often the highest earning bunkhouses also get easier jobs that pay more as well, due to people believing they are harder workers due to earning more.

Architecture

Bunkhouses, much like the rest of Cochel's buildings, are made with a construction material unique to Cochel. They are often dyed white with a greenhouse rooftop where residents may relax or utilize the small amount of hydroponic gardening space. Inside, the front doors lead to a large lounge where the job board updates digitally on a regular basis. Behind this to the right is the eating area, and to the left are the stairs that lead up to higher floors. On the back wall is a doorway into the kitchen, where food deliveries are made daily.

There are two other floors besides the ground floor, and both of them are bunks. There are ten rooms per floor, with each room holding three pairs of bunk beds; six beds per room. Most rooms have two or three trunks at the foot of the bed for people to store their items in safely, and is otherwise unfurnished, though higher-earning bunkhouses will sometimes have seats or wardrobes. At the end of the hall of rooms there is a communal bathroom and shower room.

History

Bunkhouses first began with a single bunkhouse, created by Izette Kensail when she saw the amount of teenagers who were in foster homes looking for jobs in order to live on their own. The first bunkhouse she made out of a barn, and collected jobs from neighbors nearby that were safe for the kids to do. She fed them in exchange for a small percentage of the money they made.

The Cochelian government caught on to this quickly, and had the bunkhouse shut down. Many of the kids began searching for work on their own, and without Izette to screen for safety, there was a rash of deaths and injuries to teenagers that had found unsafe work. Izette petitioned the government to use the bunkhouse idea, at least to give them safer jobs, and the panelists agreed. Soon after, the first official bunkhouse was build in Bandelli, and after it did so well, more began to pop up all over Cochel.

Parent Location

Cochel