Search Requests

SEARCH REQUESTS

At game start, the map is completely unexplored and covered by a "fog of war" obscuring its features. New characters will be randomly dropped onto the island's shores; from there, to uncover tiles on the map and figure out more about where they are, search requests are required to document movement, attempt to uncover hidden materials and passages, discover or confront dangers, find old ruins and create new settlements, and potentially, solve puzzles related to the mystery of the island itself.

RULES AND GUIDELINES

Search requests are a required mechanic of this game. A search request for the current AC cycle must be submitted in order to pass AC without a strike.
Mistakes in search requests will never be penalized. Don't be afraid to eyeball a distance or make an approximate guess; if the math doesn't quite match up, or the path doesn't exist, I will offer alternate destinations and work with you in order to decide how the search request will resolve.
Search requests will rarely be immediately fatal. Unless your character is doing something intentionally reckless, I will do my best to offer paths of escape for any sudden dangers that arise.
You can be as precise or as vague as you want. If you want to exactly plot out the squares your character will travel through and search every IC day, that is totally fine. It's also fine to simply report that your character is staying in one place all month, or to give a starting point and a desired destination, with a general request to search a wide area. Just note that, the more vague you are in your request, the more I will extrapolate to fill in the blanks.
Retroactive/backdated search requests are allowed. They just can't be used for the current month's AC if they fall outside of the current month's AC period, or overwrite a previously submitted search request. Forward-dated search requests are also allowed as long as they fall within the same IC day that the request was posted (for example, if you post a search request on IC Day 30 morning, you can make that search request last for the entirety of IC day 30, not just the morning of).
Thoroughly searching a square, rather than just traveling through it, halves movement through that square. So if you choose to search every square along a path, you'll only travel half as far as someone moving with purpose to a destination. Remember that simply traveling through a square will still fully reveal it.
IC Days are split into three 8-hour increments. Each of these corresponds to one OOC day. Morning is from 4AM -> 11:59AM, Day is from 12PM -> 7:59PM, and Night is 8PM -> 3:59AM.
Several examples of search requests are provided below to help illustrate how they work. If you still have questions, please ask them in the FAQ (or in your search request!).

MAP REFERENCE/TRAVEL CONDITIONS

TRAVEL CONDITIONS | IC DAYS 15 → 17

MORNING

DAY

NIGHT

BEACH

OCEAN*

JUNGLE

FOOTHILLS

MOUNTAINS

4 squares/hour
(32 total)
3 square visibility

4 squares/hour
(32 total)
5 square visibility

4 squares/hour
(32 total)
1 square visibility

2 squares/hour
(16 total)
3 square visibility

2 squares/hour
(16 total)
5 square visibility

2 squares/hour
(16 total)
1 square visibility

1 square/hour
(8 total)
0 square visibility

2 squares/hour
(16 total)
2 square visibility

2 squares/hour
(16 total)
3 square visibility

1 square/hour
(8 total)
1 square visibility

1 square/hour
(8 total)
5 square visibility

1 square/hour
(8 total)
7 square visibility

1 square/hour
(8 total)
3 square visibility

*The average human can only tread water for three hours

LEGEND

- Preexisting Structure

- Ocean

- Reef

- Deep Water

- River

- Natural Landmark

- Beach

- Jungle

- Mangroves

- Character-Made Landmark

- Foothills

- Mountain

Click on any of the map tiles for details.

III

VII

VIII

XII

XIII

XIV

XVI

SUBMISSIONS

# | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
All new characters will be given a toplevel to this post. To submit a search request, fill out the below form and copy/paste it as a response to your toplevel.

IC DATES: The IC dates the search request covers (I would also recommend putting this in the subject line to make it easier to keyword search later). You can use whole days, partial days, or a combination of either. To verify what IC days line up with real-world days and events, consult the Calendar.

STARTING SQUARE: The square your character is starting their search request on, format TILE.COLUMN.ROW. This should line up with your previous search request, or your starting location if newly arrived/revived.

ENDING SQUARE: The square your character is ending their search request on. If you're not sure where they'll end up (the area is unexplored/your character has a vague idea of where they want to go/you're not sure on the math/etc.), you can give a more rough answer here. Something like "they want to make it to Tile II," or "as close to II.AA.3 as possible" are perfectly valid answers.

DETAILS: The meat of your request. This is where you describe:

The path your character is taking,
The squares you want them to search,
Any special actions your character is taking during this period of time (or inaction), and
Any other special notes or questions you might have about this request.

Again, you can provide as much or as little information as you want; saying that your character is simply moving from point A to point B without searching anything is 100% acceptable.

NAVIGATION

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IC DATES: Day 7 (day and night)
STARTING SQUARE: II.DD.27
ENDING SQUARE: II.FF.32
DETAILS: Same as the morning, with the usual addition of searching for a sleeping tree, and the new addition of tending to her wound. She'll eat her saved coconut tonight, too.

II.EE.28
II.EE.29
II.FF.30
II.FF.31
II.FF.32

IC DATES: Night 006
STARTING SQUARE: IX.R.12
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.13 (or however far he'd get in two hours while searching each square)
DETAILS: Those nickels could be useful later, so after examining them — noting what pictures are on both sides, any dates that can be made out — he'll pocket them.

Stumbling around a jungle in the dark seems more risky than sticking to the beach right now, so he'll start to follow the coastline southward, still on the lookout for any of the aforementioned (signs of people/animals, useful items, etc.). If he happens upon anything that might warrant getting a better look, he'll use the flashlight function on his phone. Otherwise he's relying on moonlight to see by.

IC DATES: Morning 004 > Day 004
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.11?
DETAILS: Senku spends a couple of hours building a solar still to purify ocean water, using a hole in the ground, the tarp, some vegetation (whatever leaves/kelp/grass they find; the kind doesn't matter), the beer bottle, and one of the water bottles that he and Randvi have (he'll use the other one once it's empty).

After that, they're going to try to hack the keypad to that one bungalow.
If the callsigns don't work, he will try the extremely video game trick of looking for ANY CLUE that points to what the code is in the surrounding area, starting with the other houses.

(I've realized just now that this thread is under the main "E" header instead of Lalo's character header! I'm not going to make us delete/repost these comments, but we should probably continue it in the right place after this one.)

Lalo does not find any other entrances or exits to the building aside from the busted front door, and the only smaller rooms within this one (that he can tell) are the three holding cells.

Morning 005
Hour 8: VII.C.25 (taking apart the computer)

Lalo doesn't have much in the way of proper tools, but he does manage to make the best of what he has. The terminal's faded, slightly moldy plastic casing is the only degraded part of it; the internals are very intense, much like what Kokichi noticed about the drone, being a strange combination of what we would consider modern Earth technology and inscrutable, almost alien-looking components. Lalo manages to salvage quite a bit - most of the plastic case, six bundles of wires, three handfuls of electronics salvage, and a keyboard all come away cleanly. The monitor ends up cracking and breaking, though, and Lalo is probably going to have to get some proper tools if he wants to have any chance of putting this thing back together. The power cable also seems to break, if only because it's somehow built into the case and interfaces directly with a simple-looking plug in the desk.

Day 005
Hour 1: VII.C.25 - around the vacant cell (pistol holster)

Lalo can't actually get into the vacant cell - Jet's efforts opened the doors for Martin and Kokichi, but the third cell remains closed. He'll have to figure out some way to open it if he wants to search inside.

Hour 2: VII.C.25 - Kokichi's cell (flint)
Hour 3: VII.C.25 - Martin's cell (plastic fork)
Hour 4: VII.C.25 - room center/desk (polished stone - looks like agate)
Hour 5: VII.C.25 - drone pedestals (polished stone - magnesite, vaguely dyed ochre)
Hour 6: VII.C.25 - general inside (four juniper berries)
Hour 7: VII.C.25 - general outside (steel shovel - partially buried, but in reasonably good condition)

Lalo has 1 hour remaining before Night 005.

Morning 004
Hour 1 - 2: IX.T.9 (sleeping in)
Hour 3: IX.T.9 (map-making)
Hour 4: IX.T.9 - smaller hangar (two large screws, flat-head)
Hour 5: IX.T.9 -> IX.X.11
Hour 6: IX.X.11 - locked bungalow

None of the callsigns Randvi tries - known, unknown, and her own - seem to produce anything more than a single long beep from the keypad.

The bungalow has a few windows - simple and small - but none of them are accessible. Yes, all of the glass has been broken out, but the closed wooden shutters are backed with much sturdier metal shutters behind them, which do not budge.

To investigate the roof, Randvi would have to try and climb on top of the bungalow first. There's not an especially easy way to do this; the bungalows are on four-foot stilts in the sand, and the roof's sloped awning is easily fifteen feet above the floor.

Randvi has 2 hours remaining before Day 004.

IC DATES: Day 4 morning -> Day 4 day
STARTING SQUARE: IX.X.11
ENDING SQUARE: IX.X.11
DETAILS: Okay, she's gotta go guard dog Senku through his clue search, which will probably take the rest of the morning block.

Afterward, can she get under the bungalow? If it's raised there might be an access hatch down there.

ETA: just saw Senku’s reply, she's following him on his clue search expedition but obviously not searching so thoroughly because she's looking for threats.

She will take the second to last hour of the day block to search under the bungalow and then they'll head back to the airfield.

Edited 2023-06-05 16:24 (UTC)

Morning 004
Hour 1 - 4: IX.T.9 (science)
Hour 5: IX.T.9 -> IX.X.11
Hour 6: IX.X.11 - locked bungalow

None of the callsigns Randvi or Senku tries - known, unknown, and their own - seem to produce anything more than a single long beep from the keypad.

Hour 7: IX.X.11 - around the locked bungalow (small can of tuna, intact)
Hour 8: IX.X.11 - bungalow 1 (three bundles of sage)

Day 004
Hour 1: IX.X.11 - bungalow 2 (transceiver upgrade - looks like an old-style mobile game cartridge attached to a USB adapter; has a faded picture of a cartoon snake on the front)
Hour 2: IX.X.11 - bungalow 3 (small bottle of ibuprofen - faded label in Indonesian, about 1/3 full)
Hour 3: IX.X.11 - bungalow 4 (broken oar, wooden)
Hour 4: IX.X.11 - bungalow 5 (simple arduino - still in its original plastic case, but also, full of sand)
Hour 5: IX.X.11 - bungalow 6 (small suitcase - the kind with wheels on it, soft case)
Hour 6: IX.X.11 - bungalow 7 (cast-iron pan, only a little rusted)

Senku has 2 hours remaining before Night 004.

First off: I am SO SORRY. I'm happy to delete + repost if you want. I thought it looked kinda weird but I thought I just didn't have my contacts in...

IC DATES: Day 005 --> Morning 006
STARTING SQUARE: VII.C.25
ENDING SQUARE: ???
DETAILS: First off, weird question! I don't think he'd realistically be able to tell this (esp not from four berries) bc it's not like he's a botanist or anything, but just for shits and giggles — what species of juniper are the berries? Just wondering since some are toxic and some are not! This is just for my own curiosity; he'll leave them behind regardless.

Taking: flint, steel shovel, the polished stones, one handful of electronics salvage, let's say two of the wires? Also Martin's player said he could have the syringe Martin found.
Leaving: plastic fork, the berries, the rest of the computer debris

Is the broken power cable long enough to be useful to tie somebody's hands up? If it is, he'll take that too. If not, he'll leave it.

Lalo has heard people on the network talking about the drones being used to open the cell doors, so he'll take whichever drone is the least destroyed and try to see if he can open the cell door that way; he'll sink probably an an hour and a half into doing this if it doesn't work right away. If/when it does work, he'll go inside and search the cell. If it still isn't working after about 90 minutes of trying different drones (or what's left of them), holding them in different positions, etc, he'll eventually give up, drink some water, force himself to eat some grapes because he's probably starving by now, and hope they don't make him sick. Then he'll sleep through whatever's left of the rest of the night until morning. If it is successful then he'll go inside, search the cell, and same thing — eat, drink, sleep.

In the morning, he'll either search the last cell after the doors open it (if the previous day's attempts were unsuccessful) then say his goodbyes from the others and depart, heading in the direction of the northeast coast, ROUGHLY in the direction of the cell where Cohle was being held. I'm aiming to get him near thereabouts eventually, but it's not like he has exact directions so his path might not be the most straightforward. If the previous day's search attempts were successful, then he'll say goodbye and leave first thing in the morning.

He will thoroughly search every square on the way. In particular he's looking out for poisonous plants (plants that would be recognizable as toxic to someone who isn't a scientist or a plant expert but generally has fairly good wilderness survival skills), anything big enough to be a vessel to carry his items in, and anything that stands out as very unusual or out of place. He also will be reasonably cautious and will try to avoid difficult terrain even if it takes longer bc he's not in a hurry — however, he's determined to get to where he's headed eventually so if he has to traverse difficult terrain or do something risky to get there, then he will! He'd just prefer not to if there's another option.

Edited 2023-06-05 20:23 (UTC)

IC DATES: Day 5 (morning) -> Day 5 (night)
STARTING SQUARE: VII.C.25
ENDING SQUARE: VII.C.25
DETAILS: One day, Martin will leave this godforsaken cell block. That day is not today.

Edited 2023-06-05 17:05 (UTC)

Night 003
Hour 6: VII.C.25 - building outside (ornate bird feather - about 6" long, dark brown except for a distinct, eyespot-like pattern in the top center, which is white and yellow)

Weirdly, there are no signs of building modifications that would indicate human habitation - no faucets, no external wall plugs, no power or other tucked-away utilities boxes, not even windows. There's just the broken front door and the solar panels just barely visible on the roof.

Hour 7: VII.C.25 - immediate area, within 1 km (hefty, 2' chunk of rebar)

In the dark of night, Kokichi has a very hard time discerning if there are any other buildings or landmarks nearby. He can at least see that the landscape nearby is mostly mountainous, except for a stretch of less-intense hills to the east.

Kokichi has 1 hour remaining before Morning 004.

If Squalo wants to dislodge this, he's going to need a lot of levers. It's more the debris inside the plane - and the fragmented, broken nature of the floors - that make it especially precarious to try and climb around in.

Night 004
Hour 1 - 7: VI.EE.29 (resting)
Hour 8: VI.EE.29 (dead rodent - species indeterminant; does not look fresh)

It's now the start of Morning 005.

Defeated, he'll head back inside to rest.

IC DATES: Morning 004 -> Day/Night 006
STARTING SQUARE: VII.C.25.
ENDING SQUARE: VII.C.25.
DETAILS: Kokichi will take it easy in the relative safety of the cell building for a bit, letting his injured ankle heal up and waiting for Martin to be in better shape. He'll set the cooler outside to collect rainwater so they can stay hydrated and poke around the nearby area occasionally to forage for food or anything useful or unusual they might have missed, but otherwise he's staying put for a while and just monitoring everyone else's situation on the network.

On the morning of Day 6, they'll head out to search for an alternate place to camp, moving very slowly to accommodate all their various injuries.

VII.D.24
VII.E.23
VII.F.22
VII.G.21
VII.G.20

Kokichi will let the others focus on navigating while he keeps an eye out for anything useful or notable on the way. Once they get to a good spot to camp, he'll search the area thoroughly while the others are focused on setting up. Priorities are food, potential containers, and anything man-made.

Edited 2023-06-05 20:19 (UTC)

IC DATES: Day 6 (morning) > Day 6 (day/night)
STARTING SQUARE: VII.C.25
ENDING SQUARE: VII.G.20
DETAILS:
In the morning, Martin, Kokichi, and Jet will continue resting up and drinking water/eating the food Lalo brought. They'll say goodbye to Lalo, and then rally themselves to start heading out.

VII.D.24
VII.E.23
VII.F.22
VII.G.21
VII.G.20

Martin is moving very slowly. Between his current state, Jet's knee, and Kokichi's ankle, they're taking their time to avoid further injury and to thoroughly search the squares they're passing through. Martin will be looking for a walking stick to keep himself from falling over, as well as food and any other vessels to carry and potentially boil water in.

Once they get to the bank of the river, he'll be looking around for a good spot to make camp. The rest of his day will be spent resting and trying to help build a shelter with whatever sticks and leaves they can find. If the water looks safe, he'll also bathe himself and rinse his clothes as much as he can in the river, just to get the grime, sand, and salf off, if nothing else.

Now in the right spot!

GORGEOUS ART THANK YOU <3

Okay, so basically the danger is less that the whole thing might come crashing down with him inside, and more that everything on the interior that could be used as foothold could break without warning, did I get that correctly?

Also... eugh, he will not be eating the dead rodent.

He's going to move toward the maybe-caldera, still careful just in case some volcano-worshipping locals are laying in ambush... or, like, the ground gives or something. Speaking of which, if the ground starts looking suspicious, he'll use the blunt end of his spear-stick to check it as he walks.

He's going to press on until it's too hot/dangerous to continue, or he can get a proper look at the caldera -- mostly he's interested whether the volcano appears active or not, but he's also keeping an eye out for anything useful as usual.

IC DATES: Day 8 morning
STARTING SQUARE: II.N.9
ENDING SQUARE: however far she gets
DETAILS: Chloe is heading east along the shore, either until she runs into something or it's night. At the start of Day 8 Night she’ll head inland and look for some out of the way place (behind foliage, under an outcropping etc) where she can sleep.

She’s searching the area mostly for signs that people have been there recently, since she still thinks guys are after her (well, potentially they are but they're different guys lol).

The can is a typical 12-fluid-ounce cylinder.

Day 003
Hour 2: V.EE.5 (picnic)
Hour 3: V.EE.5 -> VI.B.4
Hour 4: VI.B.4 -> VI.D.4
Hour 5: VI.D.4 -> VI.E.2
Hour 6: VI.E.2 -> II.F.32
Hour 7: II.F.32 -> II.G.30
Hour 8: II.G.30 -> II.E.28

Night 003
Hour 1: II.E.28 -> II.D.27
Hour 2: II.D.27 -> II.C.27
Hour 3: II.C.27 -> II.B.26
Hour 4: II.B.26 -> II.A.25 (boiling water)

Steph has 4 hours remaining until Morning 004. Along her path following the river and stream, she'll have plenty of opportunities to fill up her bucket and can with fresh water.

The plug itself had been built into the light fixture and is basically just one solid metal prong. Closer inspection (once he pries it out of the outlet) will reveal slight groves in the sides, which are not mirrored. The outlet only has one hole in it to match the plug. Rust is not at a good angle while standing on top of the toilet to get more detail than that, and it's too far above his head while standing on the floor to see what the outlet's insides look like from there, either.

Rust spends 2 hours doing this and chatting, leaving him with 2 hours remaining before Day 004.

Day 007
Hour 1 - 2: II.DD.27 -> II.EE.28 (four shoots of sugarcane)
Hour 3 - 4: II.EE.28 -> II.EE.29 (10' of rope with two carabiners still attached)
Hour 5 - 6: II.EE.29 -> II.FF.30 (broken sawblade - only a rough quarter of a circular piece, with many of the teeth rusted off)

Shaw encounters a small river here, flowing east, but thankfully it's gentle enough that she could wade across it without too much difficulty. It is, notably, less shallow and muddy than the creek she found a couple days ago.

Hour 7 - 8: II.FF.30 -> II.FF.31 (heavily degraded plastic container - small cube, like what might have been used for sauces)

Night 007
Hour 1 - 3: II.FF.31 -> II.FF.32 (small chunk of quartz)

It's hideously slow-going in the dark, hurt, while searching for interesting items, but at least Shaw can use that extra time to find a suitable tree to sleep in that can accommodate her and her injury.

Including the time tending to her wounds and cracking open the coconut, Shaw has 4 hours remaining before Morning 008.

Oops, I must have miscalculated the timing; my bad! She'll stop moving before nightfall, so let's just say she stops at the river. She'll use the remaining time to look for fish!

The nickels seem to be standard mint for US currency - one side has a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on it, the other has Monticello. Remarkably, all of them have readable dates: 2033, 2069, 2037, 2040, 2074, 2060, and 2063.

Night 006
Hour 3: IX.R.12 -> IX.T.14 (pillowcase - probably used to be white)
Hour 4: IX.T.14 -> IX.T.16 (six manchineel tree fruits)

K has 4 hours remaining before Morning 007. He does not spot any signs of recent human or animal activity in his immediate, visible area.

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Search Requests

SEARCH REQUESTS

RULES AND GUIDELINES

MAP REFERENCE/TRAVEL CONDITIONS

SUBMISSIONS

Day 7

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Morning 004

Chloe Frazer | Uncharted

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Day 5

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Day 4 -> Day 6

Day 6

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Day 8

Dirk Strider | Homestuck

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