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 fruit smells a bit like a sweeter durian - like a damp armpit full of sugar. It's not alarming, necessarily, but it's kind of unpleasant to take a deep whiff of it. If Squalo is still brave enough to take a nibble, it...actually tastes unobjectionable, if kind of weirdly savory and stringy. He won't notice any weird effects from eating a piece.

Squalo's light sleeping habits will alert him to many nighttime animal noises from the thick jungle nearby - squawks, roars, howls, and much closer by, the deep rumble of a crocodile from the direction of the northern river bank. Thankfully, none of these noises seem to lead to anything aside from a tense, restless evening.

[glencolans]

The cell door is all bars set in a metal frame, which presumably all moves as a single unit. There also isn't a physical locking mechanism as far as Martin can find; the deadbolts must be engaged exclusively from the electronic pad next to the cell (or there's another means that Martin can't see from his behind-bars vantage).

Following his attempts at trying to lockpick the door, Martin has 2 hours remaining until Day 002.

[glencolans]

The fish is starting to smell more on the fishy side, but not so much that it smells like it's going bad. The inside of it has a bit more of a powerful scent, though. Nothing unusual happens when it's cut open - just regular-looking fish innards in there. The metal stake is roughly two feet long.

Day 001
Hour 6: III.R.26 -> III.Q.25

The drone is moving very fast - much faster than a human could run, even at a sprint - but it's a lot easier to keep sight of it in the thinner forest lining the coast. Unfortunately, this goes both ways. After only fifteen minutes or so of tracking, the drone suddenly stops, hovering in place for a moment, before the metal bars on its sides crackle to life with visible pulses of electricity and it flies directly towards Rust. Based on how quickly it was moving earlier, even though it's several kilometers down the beach, it will catch up to him in a matter of minutes.

[lonelynotforsaken]

Frustrated and starting to get scared, he's just going to call out loudly into the room:

"I'd like to speak to whomever is in charge here. I'm invoking my right to a face-to-face discussion under Section III, paragraph 2, subsection C of the Declaration on Prisoner's Rights, as signed by the United Nations in 1996." Is this a document that exists? No. But it sounds... authoritative? He's hoping if it's only robots here, they'll respond to something technical more than emotional, though.

If this fails to draw a response, he'll collect his syringe and fill it with some of the water from the toilet tank. He wants to test how far he can squirt the water (aiming inside the cell) and try to judge if he'd be able to reach the drones/their pads with the stream.

[glencolans]

Plenty of trees here are sturdy enough to climb into the lower branches, but they thin out quickly towards the tops - a fully stratified rainforest this is not. In spite of her best efforts, none look safe enough to support her for a treetop vantage.

Morning 002
Hour 1: III.AA.28 -> III.Z.28 (ruined doll's dress - or maybe a baby's dress?)
Hour 2: III.Z.28 -> III.Y.28
Hour 3: III.Y.28 -> III.X.28 (small deer's horn)
Hour 4: III.X.28 -> III.W.28
Hour 5: III.W.28 -> III.V.28 (shoelace)
Hour 6: III.V.28 -> III.U.28 (sharpened stick)

As Shaw is inspecting this tool-sharpened stick she found on the ground, she'll hear the telltale humming of an approaching drone from the southeast, quickly headed her way.

[cactusy]

ALAS. She will sort of consider trying to shimmy up a skinny trunk, but will ultimately decide that a vague maybe-reward of a good view isn't worth the risk and drop the idea.

She'll keep the shoelace, and when she hears the drone approaching, she'll quickly do what she did the first time: attempt to take cover in either the lower branches of a tree or in the jungle underbrush (whichever seems to offer the best combo of Good Coverage and Good Spying).

Day 002

[sharktrash]

IC DATES: Day 002
STARTING SQUARE: X.E.12
ENDING SQUARE: ???
DETAILS:

Squalo will go investigate whether the crocodile has left any tracks first. If he does not find anything he can follow, he'll give another try to following the river upstream into the jungle.

Once he reaches the spot where he turned around before, he'll start moving more carefully, and also search around for anything useful or unusual. He's also particularly keeping an eye out for food and/or any fruit that might contain higher amount of water.

He'll keep going until he's halfway through the day or runs into something dangerous or interesting.

[aluminumandash]

lmao lmao okay

He'll leave the fish. Enjoy, birds.

Rust will sprint for the jungle (he's in good shape, though carrying a fair amount of stuff and probably still dehydrated) and try to weave around a few trees before hitting the deck—hiding behind a log, in a hollow, or covering himself with foliage if possible. He'll try to stay dead still when the drone approaches, and will remain that way for a while after (if) it leaves.

As a last resort—if the drone has clearly zeroed in on his position—he'll hurl the metal stake at it (he has a pull-up bar in his house good upper body strength but it's not like he does this every day).

[glencolans]

Staying put while thoroughly searching this square, Senku can find a can of cat food and a damp book of matches before night starts. He's in thick enough jungle to climb a tree and feel pretty safe about it, as well.

[glencolans]

Unfortunately, while this is a smaller branch of the joined river further east, it's still well over fifty feet wide and quite deep-looking and full of mud. It doesn't look like it's traveling too fast, but probably better safe than sorry - sending Kokichi to follow it southwest.

Day 001
Hour 3: VII.W.27 (mistyped that in my last response whoops) -> VII.V.27 (rusted fishhook)

As Kokichi follows the river deeper into the forest, he'll hear the faint noise of drone humming from somewhere in the forest ahead, to the west - but it peters off quickly, and Kokichi doesn't catch sight of anything during his search.

Hour 4: VII.V.27 -> VII.U.28 (makeshift fishing pole - basically just a flexible branch with an eye hook stuck to the end of it)
Hour 5: VII.U.28 -> VII.T.29 (a full six-pack of beer cans that has miraculously remained untouched)
Hour 6 - 8: VII.T.29 -> VII.X.24 (Kokichi turns back to camp)

Once Kokichi makes it back to his and Lalo's campsite, it's officially the start of Night 001.

[trialbyliar]

OH BOY, solid finds. Snagging aaaall of that (fishhook, makeshift fishing pole, and beer).

[salamanca]

He takes back everything he ever thought about wanting to pawn you off on somebody else. Stay with him forever.

[salamanca]

Lalo spends a total of five hours building his lean-to. At some point, he takes an hour off to rest, drink some more water and observe the wildlife and anything interesting that might be happening around him. He spends the last hour of the day begrudgingly waiting/watching for signs of Kokichi to come back and getting ready to go look for him in case Kokichi doesn't come back by dark as he has now realized he has to actually try to keep Kokichi safe if this cop story is going to hold for any length of time. Goddamn it.

Since Kokichi does come back before dark, though, Lalo doesn't actually leave camp! And he comes back with beer! No longer "goddamn it."

At night, he will spend two hours asleep and the rest of the time watching/guarding camp for anything unusual. Probably while drinking beer.

Day1

[metalicarus]

IC DATES: day 1 (Morning) - Day 1 (Night)
STARTING SQUARE: XI.R.28
ENDING SQUARE: As far as he can go heading East by Southeast along the beach
DETAILS: Jet's keeping an ear on the trouble on the radios, but largely doing his own recon, looking for signs of the evil scientists or government black ops he expects has kidnapped them!

He'll pick up anything that looks like it could be a tool now or someday...like maybe a good sized rock/stick or even seaweed.

Day 1

[meadqueen]

IC DATES: Day 1 morning
STARTING SQUARE: V.Q.21
ENDING SQUARE: not sure of exact square but she's heading to the cave
DETAILS: Randvi wakes up and immediately comes to the conclusion that an enemy/bandit has left her there to be swept out with the tide. The best place for a boat to dock to drop her off is in the cave to the north so she's going to check that out.

Three things:

1: Once she gets to the cave (she's hoping for guys she can fuck up but I'm assuming there are no guys lol) she's going to look around pretty thoroughly for clues to where they would have gone (evidence of mooring a boat etc) but on the walk from the beach to the cave she is both so focused and so furious that she could walk right by a portal home without seeing it.
2. I'm assuming it would take an hour tops to walk to the cave since she can see it from the starting position.
3. Not important for this because she would be going there even in an imminent death situation but how long does Randvi have until the tide actually puts her at risk?

Also, unfortunately it looks like the grid labels are missing on tile V.

[glencolans]

Martin's insistence that his rights be respected by the kidnapping robots does not seem to garner a response from anything, at least not in the next two hours.

The syringe has a powerful spring in it, which gives it quite the kick and spray distance - a stream of water from it can reach the other side of the room, just about. Aiming and hitting one of the drone pads with enough water to have an effect on them might take some time, but it doesn't seem like a totally impossible task.

[glencolans]

Thankfully for Shaw, her strategy seems like a winning one: The thick jungle underbrush is plentiful here, giving her plenty of time to dive into a bundle of bushes before the drone passes overhead and goes on its way. Its persistent humming peters out, headed roughly northeast, then disappears entirely just before the end of hour 7. There is one hour remaining before Day 002.

[cactusy]

Was the drone she saw on the morning of day 1 also heading northeast?

[glencolans]

Morning 002
Hour 1: X.E.12 -> X.C.10

Squalo does find some crocodile-like footprints near the beach-facing bank of the northern river - unusual and distinctive from normal ones because they lack the thick tail-trails that often accompany them - but none of them stray very far from the river before circling back to it.

Hour 2: X.C.10 -> X.D.8
Hour 3: X.D.8 -> X.D.7 (handful of fish eggs - large, opaque, and gold-tinted)
Hour 4: X.D.7 -> X.D.6 (strange fruit tree - they look almost exactly like blackberries, except each "berry" is the size of a human fist)
Hour 5: X.D.6 -> X.D.5
Hour 6: X.D.5 -> X.E.5 (boar's hoof - still somewhat held together by stripped ligaments)
Hour 7: X.E.5 -> X.E.4 (strange fruit - growing at the edge of the river in the water and suspended over rafts of broad leaves, roughly lime-sized with a soft, fuzzy purple skin)
Hour 8: X.E.4 -> X.F.4 (a small piece of carved ivory - broken to the point where its intended shape can't be determined)

Day 002
Hour 1: X.F.4 -> X.G.3 (popped rubber ball - color and texture are reminiscent of a dodgeball)
Hour 2: X.G.3 -> X.G.2 (4 cucumbers on the vine)
Hour 3: X.G.2 -> X.H.2 (small freshwater eel - still alive and easily grabbable near the riverbank, but it has a ridge of strange, lumpy scales over its back)

The terrain has been steadily sloping uphill the further north Squalo travels, and at this point he reaches a hill's crest, giving him slightly better vision over the surrounding jungle - one of what looks like many more to the north and east. Squalo has officially hit the foothills, providing increased visibility while traveling, albeit at the cost of more treacherous terrain.

Additionally, the river he's been following has been growing steadily narrower and rockier. It's only about ten to fifteen feet wide here and pretty shallow, although the current is, consequently, a lot more aggressive. He could probably cross here or upstream without too much difficulty.

There are 5 hours remaining before Night 002.

[glencolans]

It becomes easier for Rust to find good places to hide once he runs back into the thicker jungle. He dives into some underbrush around the roots of trees, and waits.

The drone is there just a couple minutes later. Rust should be able to clearly hear it hovering directly overtop of him...and then circling the area...and then, finally, at the close of the hour, it seems to lose interest and flies away west again.

Rust now has 2 hours remaining until Night 001.

[sharktrash]

Morning 002
He will leave behind the fish eggs, as he has no way to carry them, and the boar hoof. He'll pick up the ivory and at least one of each kind of fruits. He's going to try cutting open one of the "blackberries" and one of the "limes" to inspect what it looks and smells like on the inside and whether either of them looks juicy enough to be a supplement for water. If either of them looks edible, he'll pick up a few of them.

Also I forgot to mention but he would have left the beet pellets bag in his shelter/lean-to at X.E.12, because he has no idea what it is and doesn't have the means to carry much stuff. :')

Day 002
Is the dodgeball completely busted, or does it only have one hole somewhere? Could it be used as an impromptu canteen? He'll test it in the river water if it seems to be largely in one piece.

Thank fuck for the cucumbers, he's eating two immediately and pocketing the rest.

RIP eel, he's going to murder it before he touches it either via hatchet or spear-stick just in case and take it with him hoping he may be able to cook it.

He's going to take a good look around from the hill's crest, seeing if he can see any tall structures, trees, mountains, whatever else protruding over the treeline, or obvious clearings from there.

He'll continue moving more or less along the river, but not completely by the water. He's now looking for any dry-looking wood that might be usable for a fire, and scouting for any potential places to spend the night - clusters of rocks, tall trees, caves etc - or more shelter materials, as he doubts he can make it back to camp before dark.

[aluminumandash]

Thank you, gods of timeline integrity. I'm gonna say he lost his lil supply of water during this, since it seems unlikely to survive a mad dash through the jungle.

Since it's dark/getting dark, does the drone have any lights?

Rust will cautiously move back toward the beach (doing his best to retrace his steps), but take cover and wait...probably another hour if he hears a drone. He'll do a quick survey of the beach to see if the tide brought anything in (particularly anything edible) but try to limit his exposure. (He'll also look for any big, obvious signs of Martin/a struggle, but won't dedicate time to trying to track him unless he sees something first.)

Then he'll retreat to the beginnings of the jungle (hopefully that makes sense...where it's not as thick but isn't the beach) and thoroughly search for sticks/vines/grass or a place he could turn into a quick-and-dirty shelter. (Shelter would take priority over a fire if he doesn't have time for both.)

Day 1

[ichoosefight]

IC DATES: Day 1 (morning), Day 1 (day)
STARTING SQUARE: I.BB.16
ENDING SQUARE: Tile II
DETAILS: Steph is heading East (sunward, this might not be Earth) looking for and following signs of animal life. She will try to go around obstacles like thick brush rather than through it, and stop if she finds anything that looks like edible greens. Not mushrooms. We don't trust mushrooms.

If she finds nothing, she will stop around 3pm.

[lonelynotforsaken]

Rude of them, honestly. He wants to speak to the robot overlord manager now. But as that seems unlikely, Martin is going to go back to the toilet tank and drink as much as he can from it without making himself gag, then use what remains for Operation Squirt the Drones and Their Pads.

He is going to be looking closely at the drone and pad closest to him first to try to see if there's any sort of notably exposed wiring. If there is, he'll make an effort to aim for that. If there's not, then he'll look for any sort of apparent outlet or power connector to shoot with water. If he's going to die stuck here, maybe he can at least take the drones out with him by shorting them out??? If all else fails, he's just going to try to make as much of a mess with the mucky water on the pads/drones as possible. Suffer his petty wrath?

[glencolans]

Morning 001
Hour 1: XI.R.28 -> XI.T.24 (human metacarpal bone - cleaned)

Jet reaches the mouth of an extremely wide river here - nearly half a kilometer wide, to the point where it's hard to tell where the river ends and the ocean begins - but thankfully, a combination of surprisingly shallow depth and plentiful mangrove roots make it easy to traverse. Tree and plant growth is a little unusual, like the waterline of the river should be much higher...at least it isn't right now! Jet can continue north.

Hour 2: XI.T.24 -> XI.X.23 (small dead squid - reasonably fresh)
Hour 3: XI.X.23 -> XI.BB.22 (tangled fishing line)
Hour 4: XI.BB.22 -> XI.DD.19 (small crab - looks like a fiddler; alive but easily catchable)
Hour 5: XI.DD.19 -> XI.AA.16 (large crab - coconut crab of some variety? alive and catchable, if you don't value your fingers)
Hour 6: XI.AA.16 -> XI.CC.12 (dead jellyfish - species indeterminant)
Hour 7: XI.CC.12 -> XII.A.11 (bottlecap)
Hour 8: XII.A.11 -> XI.FF.7 (section of tangled net - made of a hemp-like material)

Day 001
Hour 1: XI.FF.7 -> XII.C.4 (large whelk shell)
Hour 2: XII.C.4 -> VIII.A.32 (partial sea turtle shell)

Jet will spot that someone has drawn a large arrow pointing north in the sand on nearby tile VII.FF.30. He'll pass right by it on his own northward journey along the island's coast.

Hour 3: VIII.A.32 -> VIII.C.29
Hour 4: VIII.C.29 -> VIII.D.25 (young sea bird - alive and probably catchable, although it doesn't have a lot of meat on it)

There are definite footprints here - two sets of them, one slightly larger than the other - also following the shoreline north.

Hour 5: VIII.D.25 -> VIII.A.24 (large crab - this one looks like a blue land crab, male and feisty, but catchable)
Hour 6: VIII.A.24 -> VII.CC.22 (watermint)

Jet runs into another river mouth here, but this one is much deeper-looking and has faster currents; he'll have to find a way to cross if he wants to continue along the beach.

The footprints he's been tracing look like they were also stymied by the river, and clearly follow its banks west. There's also a clearly-visible smoke trail from a campfire in that direction.

Jet still has 2 hours remaining before Night 001. He'll have plenty of opportunities to find and gather rocks, sticks, and leaves on his walk.