Search Requests

[glencolans]

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

2 squares/hour
(16 total)
1 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.

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

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.

<b>IC DATES:</b> <b>STARTING SQUARE:</b> <b>ENDING SQUARE:</b> <b>DETAILS:</b>

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:

1. The path your character is taking,
2. The squares you want them to search,
3. Any special actions your character is taking during this period of time (or inaction), and
4. 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

Comments

[glencolans]

The axe looks manufactured, and pretty old, but in decent enough condition. Same for the tent cover; apparently being partially collapsed and buried in the underbrush has protected it from other deteriorating elements. Spots of stains and sunbleaching are present, as well as a couple of small tears, but it's definitely serviceable. No signs of tracks or disturbed foliage near the items or his immediate vicinity, at least that Rust can find.

Day 005
Hour 1: III.J.25

The every-other-hour announcements are starting to sound...odd. Like they're slowing down, the syllables drawn out in weird ways. As Rust approaches the entrance to the concrete building again, he can definitely hear the drone inside, humming and skittering around, but there's no signs of it leaving while he observes. He'll find it still connected to the table leg when he enters the front door. The eight prongs on it definitely light up once Rust is within the building, but aside from angrily moving up and down the table leg and swerving along the floor, there doesn't seem to be anything it can do. The blades in the rotor connecting it to the handcuffs are, naturally, shattered.

Hour 2: III.J.25

Observation of the trapped drone turn up similar to his initial impressions. It is moving pretty erratically, though, so the tie approach is probably not a safe one; Rust has much better luck with the tent. As soon as the tent goes over the drone, it seems to almost calm, with the sound of popping batons ceasing and its movements becoming more purposeful towards the door.

Hour 3: III.J.25 (outdoor adventure for water + lunch)
Hour 4: III.J.25

The stricken former piñata does not give up its secrets easily. The exterior is pretty banged up, but a lot of that could be consequences of Rust's doing rather than typical wear-and-tear (the drone has had a Rough Day). There are no distinguishing markings that he can make out on its exterior. There are some screws holding its paneling together, which Rust can make a decent attempt at with the knife, but once he pops a panel open he will realize pretty quickly that, to take this thing apart without breaking its insides, he's going to need better tools. A proper screwdriver, for starters. He could still try with the knife and determination, but he risks permanent damage - more than his earlier attacks have caused it, anyway.

The screws seem to be of a similar make to the ones used for the transceivers. However, drawing any other conclusions about if their makeup is similar would involve opening up a transceiver to compare, and Rust already knows how that game works. He can tell, though, that the internals of the drone are pretty intense, being a weird combination of modern-day Earth tech (something that Rust's 1990s eyes would be especially perplexed by) spliced with parts that don't seem to have any Earth analogue at all.

Hour 5: III.J.25 - cells (thick leather working glove)

While Rust is doing his search, the drone under the tent cover clatters to the ground, then goes still and quiet.

Hour 6: III.J.25

The mechanisms keeping the cell doors open are hidden in the ceiling, along with the retracted cell doors themselves. He'd have to somehow remove the cell doors entirely to get at them, or possibly break the concrete surrounding the cell walls and come at them the other direction.

Hour 7: III.J.25

It's getting pretty close to nighttime, so, better safe than sorry! Another willow shoot into a rotor blade.

Rust has 1 hour remaining before Night 005.

[glencolans]

All five of the guards lean in to look at the transceiver, then quickly recoil, a couple of them visibly hissing with displeasure.

[told u!] snaps the ornery guard. [1 of them! cros gap!]

[cant,] insists the first, sounding and looking urgent. [Song stop all!]

One of them - the only one that hasn't said anything yet - pipes up at this point. [elders now. spek 4 Song. now how u got heer, must.]

The other four, sobered, nod in agreement. Then they quickly circle around behind Dirk, spears back out, to usher him forward towards the village.

[timaeus]

[Chill, no need for the spears.]

No idea how well the concept of chill translates, but Dirk just puts the apparently-offensive radio away and goes without issue. Is this going well? Fuck if he knows.

[glencolans]

The plastic log is hollow, yes. It has holes in the top, bottom, and in a little artificial knot in the center. Wear patters around all three of these openings suggest that animals have been scooting around in there for some time.

Night 007
Hour 1 - 2: X.W.8 -> X.V.8 (employee badge - picture and most identifying markers have been faded away, but some writing is still faintly visible as saying, in English, ZOO)
Hour 3 - 4: X.V.8 -> X.U.7 (large, partially-chewed seed, resembling a mango's)

Squalo finally finds a suitable rocky outcrop to collapse under for what remains of the evening.

Squalo has 4 hours remaining before Morning 008.

[glencolans]

Dirk's protestations, of course, result in a firm poke in the back with a spear. It's not hard enough to draw blood, but it sends a message.

No one else speaks to him on his guided tour into the village. The other villages Dirk spotted spying on their exchange earlier now watch him warily from around doorways and behind huts, clicking and humming under their breath to the others in earshot. One of the guards breaks off to go gather away a child, not much more than eight or ten and wearing what appears to be a modified hemp sack for clothes, away from where they're gawking close to the edge of the road.

The other four push Dirk to the far side of the village - square XI.U.14 - where, in the sun and facing the sea, sits a much larger, more elaborate wood, thatch, and metal scrap building. Inside sit three middle-aged people on...airplane chairs? Yes, definitely airplane chairs, raised atop wooden crates and pallets above a rough stone and sand floor. Each of them wears an assortment of obviously scavenged, modern-looking clothes, patched with scraps and some natural materials.

The guards behind Dirk stop just within the doorway, rhythmically slamming the butts of their spears into the ground (a pattern that Dirk will immediately recognize as spelling "S.O.S.") before they block his way out. The person in the center - a woman, long, sandy blonde hair, heavily tanned and freckled, wearing a loose dress over a pair of torn jeans - speaks first.

[Name, outsider?] Unlike the guards, she uses the formal form of Morse code, down to clicking out the punctuation. [Or should I ask for your sign?]

[timaeus]

Oh thank fuck, proper English. Translating the broken semi-phonetic shit into Morse code on the fly was giving him a headache.

[Dirk. Callsign is HE412T. Feel like giving me some actual answers?]

[aluminumandash]

He won’t press his luck with evil piñata or make any attempts to knock down doors (at least for the time being)—his energy’s flagging and night’s coming.

In preparation for a lovely evening surrounded by objects as damaged as he is, he’ll carefully remove the tent cover from the cuffed drone and (assuming the drone doesn’t revive) put it over evil piñata. He’ll wait about an hour after the announcement that should mark evil piñata’s departure, and if it hasn’t stirred, he’ll drag the shorted-out drone to the entrance and kind of…space it across the doorway as a half-assed alarm. He’ll then try to sleep sitting against the wall behind the desk. Yes, fully clothed. Yes, with his gun beside him.

(Being Rust, he probably still won’t be able to sleep more than two hours at a time, but if he tries for 5-6 hours he can maybe get three hours of sleep.)

Any additional time/weird chunks of insomnia before day 6 he’ll spend investigating the drone plinths (can they be lifted up? how heavy are they and is there anything on the underside? any markings?) and the computer (he’ll try to see how it’s powered, examine the desk for any markings or graffiti, and check if the password prompt is for a certain number of characters).

[sharktrash]

Yeah he'll take it just because of how weird it is but definitely try to shake critters out of it beforehand! Also picking up the badge for his oddities collection.

Yay sleep. He'll do his best not to pass out completely and probably wake up every now and then to check his surroundings, but he'll most likely sleep 3-4 hours into the morning.

Then he'll continue heading toward VI.T.30 via the path of least resistance.

[backsassin]

After pouring a few grateful handfuls of water down her throat, Zam will search the nearby area for shelter or the materials to build one, with the intent of camping out for a while to rest and rehydrate after all that stumbling around in the sun.

Beth Greene | The Walking Dead

[glencolans]

[glencolans]

Morning 008
Randvi has time to make one trip to deliver clay for Senku's oven back at the airstrip, as well as fill up her traveling water supplies.

General Search Results:

• seven beach peas

Day 008
Hour 1: IX.T.9 -> IX.X.13
Hour 2: IX.X.13 -> IX.BB.14
Hour 3: IX.BB.14 -> IX.EE.14

Indeed, one of several Enemy Rivers stands in Randvi and K's path. They could do what Senku did and swim around the river's mouth in the shallow, relatively calm reef (worked out well enough for Senku!), or they could try some other method to cross.

Randvi and K have 5 hours remaining before Night 008.

[glencolans]

Day 008
Hour 1: IX.EE.11 -> IX.EE.14 (seven shoots of watercress)

The mouth of local Enemy River stands in K's path further southeast. He could do what Senku did and swim around the river's mouth in the shallow, relatively calm reef (worked out well enough for Senku!), or he could try some other method to cross.

Hour 2 - 3: IX.EE.14 (waiting to rendezvous with Randvi) (four cans of beer, two garlic bulbs)

Randvi and K have 5 hours remaining before Night 008.

[glencolans]

Morning -> Day 008
Senku travels between the airstrip, abandoned resort and bungalows, able to freely move between them and search thoroughly along the way.

General Search Results:

• eight turtle eggs
• dead jellyfish
• a coffee filter, standard bucket
• small ghost crab
• a small bottle of chemical pool cleaner, 1/3 full
• a small bottle of vodka, 2/3 full
• handful of tangled wires, roughly severed
• large, dark brown crab of some sort
• small briefcase, damaged brown leather cover
• ball of aluminum foil

The bungalows in square IX.X.11 edge the deeper jungle, which should give Senku plenty of access to assorted plant galls; he can spend an hour or two harvesting those to his heart's content.

It's now the start of Night 008.

[glencolans]

Night 009
Moss is able to travel between existing, explored structures in squares IX.X.11, IX.W.12, IX.U.9, and IX.T.9 throughout the night, even after spending three hours talking to Senku, and can do a preliminary search of each location along the way. Results below focus on the restaurant in square IX.W.12.

General Search Results:

• two cans of peaches
• bottlecap
• can of maraschino cherries
• a small charcoal grill - charcoal not included
• bundle of tangled wires
• chunk of meat - vaguely resembles the mangled end of a crocodile's tail
• four bundles of gorse flowers

It's now the start of Morning 010.

011-012

[littlemissfutility]

IC DATES: Night 011 - Day 012
STARTING SQUARE: IX.EE.23
ENDING SQUARE:
DETAILS:

Once Beth figures out she's on a beach, she'll orient herself in terms of the water and start walking away from it - a beach is exposed! Even if no one can see her now, they'll see her when the sun comes up! She'll keep walking away from it, probably moving relatively slowly. She's looking for anything useful she could pick up, as well as keeping an eye out for walkers or other bad actors. Once she finds a place she can hide, whether it's somewhere on the beach, at the edge of the jungle (whew, long walk!), etc., she'll stick it out there until first light.

At that point, she'll start trying to look for any and all of the following:
· Food - she only has the shears to fight with, which will make hunting tough for now, and she's not all that conversant in tropical plants, so this will probably be a struggle
· Fresh water
· Weapons
· Shelter
· Rope and noisy trash (i.e., made of plastic or metal or wood, anything able to be strung up on the rope as a kind of burglar alarm)
· Matches, pieces of mirror, etc.
· Anything like a backpack or bag, something that will hold supplies
· She also lowkey likes pocketing small objects, so if there's an especially pretty shell, she'll totally pick it up

In general, her instinct will be to move inland.

Day 10

[cactusy]

IC DATES: Day 10 (night)
STARTING SQUARE: VII.J.6
ENDING SQUARE: VII.J.6
DETAILS: Spending the night!

[cactusy]

Forgot to note that she'll be taking the hunting knife and the shovel!

Day 11

[cactusy]

IC DATES: Day 11 (morning and day)
STARTING SQUARE: VII.J.6
ENDING SQUARE:
DETAILS: Trying to descend into the valley! She won't be searching the areas she passes through thoroughly unless she spots anything of note, but she'll still be moving very carefully, and she's still wearing her camouflage. Her focus is very much on keeping herself hidden and trying to spy on the goings-on surrounding that structure she saw from above. (If I've misunderstood the exact squares necessary for her to descend the tapering bit safely, feel free to adjust as needed.)

VII.K.6
VII.L.6
VII.L.7
VII.L.8
VII.K.8

Morning 008

[salamanca]

This is mostly just a question first - are there any human debris that he can see on this beach/area? I'm assuming no since it's not mentioned but want to be sure! I know it's littered with leaves and fruit, but is it all organic or are there any signs of human life? Animal life? Just curious. Thanks.

[meadqueen]

Talked to K's player about this and they are going to try and swim the Enemy Rivers as Randvi would be at least somewhat aware of the layout etc thanks to Senku.

Depending on how long it takes they're not going to try and swim in the dark though.

ETA oh also 😡 taking the beach peas 😡

Day 11

[absentconstellation]

IC DATES: Morning 11
STARTING SQUARE: VIII.C.7
ENDING SQUARE: unclear
DETAILS:
First thing, the Cat is going hunting. He will start off west and stalk whatever animal he finds until he comes across drinkable water. Depending how large the animal is he will then try to kill it.

[glencolans]

The metal serving tray is the size/shape of something you might see in a cafeteria - slightly larger than 1 foot by 2 feet, rectangular, thin enough to be warped by hand. Levi could feasibly tie it to the shrapnel or even bend it into a more agreeable shape if he wanted!

Hard to say if the toothbrush has been used, but it's loose from any packaging and pretty dirty just from being in the sand for an indeterminant amount of time. The ring doesn't seem to have any secrets. Normal, plain, brushed silver, the sort that might be used for a cheaper wedding band.

Levi doesn't find a good tree immediately, but he does find one an hour north in square XIV.Y.1. Levi now has 7 hours remaining until Morning 010.

[glencolans]

Night 008
Hour 1 - 2: VII.B.21 - VII.A.21

The party finds a nice, secluded cove in the mountains, not deep enough to be considered a proper cave, but enough to keep them sheltered from the elements. Seems like a good place to settle for the night.

The party has 6 hours remaining before Morning 009.

[lonelynotforsaken]

Martin will sleep for the rest of the night barring a night watch he'll wake up for and take, splitting with the others so they can all get some sleep.

Day 9

[lonelynotforsaken]

IC DATES: Day 9 (morning) > Day 9 (day)
STARTING SQUARE: VII.A.21
ENDING SQUARE: To the west
DETAILS: Martin and the crew will be continuing west. They'll be aiming for the source of the river as a landmark, but try to keep to the foothills until they have to go down into the jungle to reach it. They'll rest there for a short spell to look around and refill their water before continuing west.

Martin, particularly, will be keeping an eye out for predators or signs of predators. He knows that dinosaur and bear are both in the general vicinity, and he suspects there are others. Still moving slowly as a group, trying to be careful not to injure themselves further or move Martin past the point of dizzy exhaustion.