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 fur seems to retain its semi-translucent qualities when wet - if anything, it seems to improve that aspect of it, almost seeming to dissolve when submerged or held up to the rain.

[glencolans]

That depends entirely on how much battery life the phone has left to record with; if K has been careful about his phone usage, sure, he can get a video! Nothing weird(er than what's already happening) shows up in the recording.

[glencolans]

Day 021
Starting Square: X.E.23
Ending Square: X.D.22
Duration: 2 hours
General Search Results: (none)

Maddy is able to find what looks like a safe-ish, narrower part of the river to attempt a running vault across within the kilometer of riverfront closest to the beach. Her execution, however, is not perfect - the sand is waterlogged and the river is just too wide. She falls well short of the other side and is promptly swept under, where the currents drag her to the bottom, along stones, and then further into the jagged corals of the surrounding reef.

Positives: When Maddy finally regains consciousness, she's on the other side of the river along the beach and has not been mauled by opportunistic sharks or crocodiles.

Negatives: Maddy has sustained a serious injury, which will hamper her movement by two tiles for one IC week. She's also lost her last two hours of daylight.

[glencolans]

Morning 021 ➜ Day 021
Starting Square: VII.I.6
Ending Square: VII.H.8
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Results:

• copper ore

Things on the plateau are in general disarray. Wind damage seems to be the primary culprit, taking down tree limbs and uprooting some older or smaller specimens outright. Evidence of shifted soil, like the starts of a landslide, are also evident, but there's enough ground cover here to have stopped that from progressing too badly.

Processing the elephant (especially into that Premium Jerky), along with other related preparations, takes the rest of the morning. From there, while the cabin is technically in sight of their current camp, it's at an odd angle that only appears to them during the afternoon; they can get a much better vantage that is visible in the morning from the south. This still only gives them viewing access to the roof and top couple of balconies beneath a blanket of trees at the bottom of the valley where it sits, but this is better than being directly behind it, probably. From what they can see, damage there is similar to damage elsewhere: Some fallen limbs lay on the roof along with a ton of leaf litter, and a conspicuous gap in the canopy suggests that at least one of the conveniently-placed trees shielding the cabin from the elements has fallen, though not on top of the building itself. Lalo does not see anything else interesting.

[glencolans]

Morning 021 ➜ Day 021
Starting Square: VII.I.6
Ending Square: VII.H.8
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Results:

• six handfuls of juniper berries
• five chunks of loose coal
• partial bottle of lighter fluid
• strip of cloth
• two leeks
• hardwood log
• an uprooted snare, sharp piece of metal used to secure it to the ground still attached
• lighter (empty)
• two pieces of small loose jerky

Things on the plateau are in general disarray. There isn't evidence that Rust can see of other large, unusual falling objects in their immediate area, but the wildlife has definitely noticed theirs. By the end of the morning, what meat and bones that have not been selected for Rust and Lalo's needs are now a feeding frenzy for various small scavengers, mainly of the bird and rodent variety. The creatures seem wary of their presence and stick to the crater rather than the campsite proper - keeping their distance just enough to avoid getting in range of an attempted attack.

Processing the elephant (especially into that Premium Jerky), along with other related preparations, takes the rest of the morning. From there, while the cabin is technically in sight of their current camp, it's at an odd angle that only appears to them during the afternoon; they can get a much better vantage that is visible in the morning from the south. This still only gives them viewing access to the roof and top couple of balconies beneath a blanket of trees at the bottom of the valley where it sits, but this is better than being directly behind it, probably. From what they can see, damage there is similar to damage elsewhere: Some fallen limbs lay on the roof along with a ton of leaf litter, and a conspicuous gap in the canopy suggests that at least one of the conveniently-placed trees shielding the cabin from the elements has fallen, though not on top of the building itself. Rust does not see anything else interesting.

[glencolans]

Day 016
Starting Square: IX.T.9
Ending Square: IX.W.12
Duration: 8 hours
General Search Results:

• manual can opener
• transceiver upgrade - a small, flat piece of metal, nondescript, that has one prong that fits into his walkie's USB-like port and another that fits an SD-type slot next to it, such that it would sit flat against the top of the transceiver if both were plugged in
• large silicone serving spoon
• four pineapples

[glencolans]

Morning 021
Starting Square: IX.U.9
Ending Square: IX.P.4
Duration: 8 hours
General Search Results:

• shark tooth
• broken oar
• used bar of soap
• three pineapples
• small suitcase

[aluminumandash]

Oooooooooh shiiiiiiiiit.

[wingbound]

He'll take the can opener and the spoon (which is a lot bigger than he hoped for, but he supposes it'll be useful for something). He's also received a short run-down about walkie additions from Randvi, so he'll take that upgrade and shove it into the matching holes to see what happens!

He's been told that pineapples eat you back (thanks, Senku) so he's leaving them right where he found them. 😬

If nothing drastic happens, he'll spend a couple more hours looking for reasonably sized cutlery then depart to explore an undisturbed looking patch of the beach, which coincidentally happens to be the unexplored zone between columns U-W and lines 14-15 (plus the two singular squares at 13 and 12, as detailed here).

He has good vision and awareness in the dark, as he pretty much grew up in a cave, so he's fine staying out there into the night.

[aluminumandash]

How big is the snare (does it seem designed for larger game/humans or smaller animals)? Can Rust tell if the metal was repurposed from something else, or does it just look like scrap?

Is the lighter made of plastic or something more durable? Does it look usable if dried out?

Day 21

[hyakuoku]

IC DATES: Day/Afternoon 21
STARTING SQUARE: 9.X.XI
ENDING SQUARE: same
DETAILS:

Senku is going to look around the area to see if there's anything new to find because of the rain/flood. He's especially looking for pieces/the rest of his cell phone since Randvi showed him what she found.

He's also looking for iron/iron ore though I doubt he'll find that nearby.

General things he's looking for in general, though not specifically here:
Copper wire
Little magnets
Graphite (so pencils?)
Bolts (like the nuts and bolts kind, bc they would probably be zinc)
Petroleum jelly
Crocodile clips
Insulated wire
Any watertight lil containers basically
Scissors/tools

[obeir]

Aside from using the flashlight and compass apps that first night he's barely powered it on for any reason, so there should be adequate battery life. Thanks! The rest of my search request remains as is — K and his posse will continue heading for the airfield.

Oh, reposting for one more addition: they're going to try using Chloe's bracelet on everything K's found during the rescue mission (particularly that silver medal), will the bracelet react to anything?

Day 021-023

[sharktrash]

IC DATES: Morning 021 - Night023
STARTING SQUARE: VII.C.25
ENDING SQUARE: ??? (ultimately aiming for airfield camp at IX.T.9)
DETAILS:

Traveling with K and the gang!

He'll want to take a look at the bird statue while the others check it out, otherwise he's grumpy but slightly less manic than during his forced stay in the shelter. He'll still make sure the person on point is checking for traps, and he keeps his axe on hand just in case he notices anything suspicious. They'll be trying to follow roughly the same path they took to get there.

Once they stop to rest he'll look for food or anything that might be considered useful (including rocks, thanks Senku) as well as check the perimeter and make sure they have watches arranged so that somebody stays up while the rest sleep.

[meadqueen]

She’ll take the chalk for Senku, and if possible capture the crab in her pail to cook up with the jerky and peas she brought for Jet and Jade when they meet up.

Day 22

[meadqueen]

IC DATES: Day 22
STARTING SQUARE: VI.I.12
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: Randvi is DYING to climb that cliff but she's got a job to do.

She will prepare a meal with supplies she brought for Jet and Jade (1 hour), take a one-hour power nap, and then head back toward the airfield.

Randvi and Jet will swap every couple of hours between who is carrying Jet’s swag and who is supporting Jade.

Day 23

[desperate_times_right]

IC DATES: Day 23
STARTING SQUARE: VII.L.29
ENDING SQUARE: aiming for IX.T.9
DETAILS: Continuing to head back to the airfield with the rest of the team.

Day 022

[lonelynotforsaken]

IC DATES: Day 022 (morning) > Day 022 (day)
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: X.D.22 (ultimately)
DETAILS: Martin is going with Senku and Levi to rescue Maddy. They're going to be using the raft to paddle around the bay to her square. Levi will have dragged the raft to the ocean the day before and they will not be sailing it down the first river to avoid potential danger. Martin will insist on staying relatively close to shore (no more than a square or so away from it. He'll have his bone spear with him. In the event that something attacks the raft along the way, he's going to do his best to stab it. He's keeping a general watch out for anything dangerous along the shore, but he's mostly focused on getting to Maddy as quickly as possible.

Day 21

[timaeus]

IC DATES: Morning 021
STARTING SQUARE: XI.V.14
ENDING SQUARE: ???
DETAILS: Once it looks like the storm has passed and everyone's allowed back outside again, Dirk will give his thanks and goodbyes and get himself out of the Pacair's hair, heading back down south to his former camp location to see how destroyed it is and take a look at the southeast sea again in case anything's changed. He keeps any eye out for anything useful, but he's more focused on getting where he's going quickly since he's walked this route twice already.

Day 21

[cactusy]

IC DATES: Day 21 (morning and day)
STARTING SQUARE: IX.P.4
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: Steph arrives at Shaw's location mid- to late morning, and the two of them trek back to the airfield base together, Steph helping the injured Shaw along. They'll plan on getting there within daylight hours, but if Shaw's injuries prevent this, or if they encounter anything unexpected that slows them down, they'll stop along the way for the night rather than continuing to travel after dark.

IX.Q.5
IX.R.6
IX.S.7
IX.T.8
IX.T.9

[glencolans]

The snare looks small, like it was meant for something hare-sized. The metal is plain and looks like it was cut from a larger piece of something thin and flat.

The lighter is plastic, and usable! Just out of fuel (which Rust has conveniently also found).

[glencolans]

Entirely possible! Randvi cleanly captures and dispatches the crab. It doesn't have a lot of meat on it, but it is delicious.

[ichoosefight]

All the things are being organized into shared inventory except for the jellyfish, which is dumped outside, and what things Steph squirrels away.

Questions:
What does the paper stain look like, just general age?
Is the gasoline can full?
How big is the small suitcase?

[ichoosefight]

IC DATES: Day 21 probably to Night 21
STARTING SQUARE: IX.P.4
ENDING SQUARE: IX.U.9
DETAILS: Steph is helping Shaw back to the airfield, preferably by being a human crutch, but if it cuts down on time a lot she will let her use her staff as a walking stick.

How sharp is the shark tooth?

[glencolans]

The paper seems to be stained from general age and moisture ingress - no notable shapes or weird substances present.

The gasoline can is full, yes. It's about half a gallon's worth.

The small suitcase is carry-on size, about 14 inches square and 10 inches deep.

[glencolans]

Night 016
Starting Square: IX.W.12
Ending Square: IX.U.12
Duration: 8 hours
General Search Results:

• butter knife
• beach carry case
• a rosehip
• large can of tomatoes
• can of tuna

Installing the module will create a new tab on the transceiver's menu bar with an "X" on it. Selecting this tab opens up, after a couple seconds of loading, what appears to be a blank outline of the island, including two smaller outlines some distance off to the southeast. A single crosshatch mark is visible near the western coast. There's a function button at the top left corner that allows Levi to add custom labels, controlling where they sit on the image with the arrow keys on his transceiver. The labels can either be simple dots, dots and text, or saved images (although selecting this last option brings up an error message - "application not defined").