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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Morning 025 ➜ Night 025
Starting Square: VI.Y.30
Ending Square: IX.W.11
Duration: 24 hours
General Search Results:

wallet (empty)

Once Chloe's injury heals enough for her to keep up with the group on Morning 025, they make quick progress towards the airfield. They arrive at the bungalows just as night falls on Day 025.

I am totally fine with this cold/arduino cure idea! Go nuts, enjoy your robot cough medicine.

Morning 024 ➜ Night 025
Starting Square: X.BB.4
Ending Square: IX.W.11
Duration: 48 hours
General Search Results:

chunk of salt

The net is small - about three feet square, likely meant to be thrown into something like a river or creek. It is intact and immediately usable!

Once Chloe's injury heals enough for her to keep up with the group on Morning 025, they make quick progress towards the airfield. They arrive at the bungalows just as night falls on Day 025.

Interestingly, Squalo's old campsite by the river in square VI.H.29 is still visible, albeit in a pretty rough state.

Well. His luck had to run out at some point. Martin will be suffering a flesh wound to the thigh and having a Very Bad Day as he collects what's left and limps his way inside. He'll tend to the injury with the medical supplies they have at the airfield, then spend his night sulking around one of the hangers and avoiding people.

Oh, and items he's taking:
- olives (he will sulk and eat his salty orbs alone)
- chewed chunk of cable
- swimwear (trunks)
- used bar of soap
- scrap circuit board

Edited 2023-09-02 01:18 (UTC)

Day 024
Starting Square: IX.T.9
Ending Square: IX.T.9
Duration: 8 hours
General Search Results:

snapped bolt
two turtle eggs

Morning 021 ➜ Morning 024
Starting Square: VI.J.13
Ending Square: IX.T.9
Duration: 80 hours
General Search Results:

soggy cardboard
staple remover
soggy paper
empty tin can
flint arrowhead
mouse trackpad
freshwater clam
sea anemone spine
two bundles of moss
small chunk of limestone
driftwood
chunk of flint
irregular pearl
three handfuls of seaweed
200 rupiah coin

As Jet makes his way down the ladder, he hears it creaking ominously under his weight...then the sound of bolts popping. He has seconds to make it to the bottom safely, which he does, just barely, before a whole section of the ladder comes loose and falls into the river below. Looks like he'll have to find another way up if he wants to come back. Otherwise, the trip back to the airstrip is uneventful.

Morning 021 ➜ Morning 024
Starting Square: VI.J.13
Ending Square: IX.T.9
Duration: 80 hours
General Search Results:

three handfuls of lemongrass
salamander
plastic bag
five handfuls of water mint
fishing lure
small chunk of limestone
an aloe leaf
three razorbill feathers
tangled fishing line

The walk to the airstrip is long, but thankfully uneventful for everyone involved.

IC DATES: Morning 24
STARTING SQUARE: III.X.21
ENDING SQUARE: Probably still III.X.21
DETAILS: Harley is going to wake up in the morning next to the plane and then scrounge around again, this time mostly just getting kind of desperate for food.

She'll then attempt the ridiculous climb up into the only way into the cockpit that she can see, using the jeans to wrap up the transceiver to carry like a baby in a bjorn so that both her hands are free. She's confident in the physical shape she's in but she's also never had to climb plane wreckage so this new SOS upgrade is a good plan b.

IC DATES: Day 024 (morning) > Day 024 (day)
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.DD.14
DETAILS: Martin and Jet are going to make a pilgrimage to the Enemy River to the east so that Martin can chuck his message in a bottle out to sea where the river (he thinks) will push it out a little more and further east. Before they do that, though, Jet is going to try plugging in his screechy transceiver and holding his radio underwater in the surf or in the nearby river if there's no hearing anything over the crash of waves. If they can't hear anything above water, they'll try sticking their heads into the water to see if the screeching is less screechy and maybe more like whale songs when they're broadcast in the water.

...slides in here.

WOOD DETECTIVE: has the panel of siding been treated? Would Rust be able to tell what kind of wood it is (he has a basic knowledge of trees but wouldn't know anything jungle-specific) or how old it is? How battered/waterlogged is it?

COFFEE DETECTIVE: does the percolator look like it's seen recent use, or is it old/rusted? Any grounds in it?

Dirk grabs the mint, ring, leaf, shoes, animal toy, and mousepad.

With the airfield close now, Dirk slows his pace and decides to poke around the hotel some and crash there for the night. He spends whatever bit of the day is left and an hour or two after night falls exploring the hotel and searching for supplies, and then finds a decent room to bed down in. Assuming nothing goes wrong, he finally wanders over to join the others in the airfield in the morning.

IC DATES: Day 25 morning/day
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: Randvi will check on all of the patients first thing in the morning, but then it's housekeeping time.

She’ll head to the beach at IX.P.9 to get water for the new still, then clear out all the (gross) old reeds people have been sleeping on for a week and replace them with fresh ones (if everything is too rain trampled this might have to be leaves from jungle edge around IX.T.7), then take the comforters to the river to wash with soap.

If there's any time left in the day block she’ll start on a meal for everyone.

AT LAAAAST.

And arduino plot is go, wooo! \o/

K will take the wallet because why not. Might be useful later.

So Chloe and Taissa might be retroactively leaving the group at an earlier date (if they later get crab raved that could just be karma in action...) but that's all still up in the air. But for sure K, Squalo, and the Cat are still together and will just continue on to the airfield during the night. If Taissa and Chloe are still with them, maybe they'll reach the airfield too, or maybe they won't; Schrödinger's lesbians. The important part's that the rescue mission is DONE.

Senku's planning a trip out to meet the Snake player and K will accompany him since it's on the way to Harley's location, so he'll make preparations during the night hours — including packing extra supplies for Harley. He'll also help with some of the general airfield chores, like preparing more bandages for the various injured people to help Randvi out, and set up a bed for the Cat in the same area K himself usually beds down in. Oh, and he'll let Squalo have whatever's left of his whiskey, he probably needs it.

Not sure if the arduino plot will happen here or after they've found Harley (maybe after just so K has an excuse to be babied by his girlfriend hahaha), but K might at least mention feeling technologically unwell to Senku just so he's aware.

Then at some point he'll finally get some well-earned rest. And won't even protest if the Cat decides to be contrary and sleep on him instead of in his own catbed.

He'll take everything except the mouse trackpad!

And also his heart out of his throat once he's safely on the ground again. :(

Night 024 ➜ Day 025
Starting Square: XIV.F.9
Ending Square: IX.X.11
Duration: 24 hours
General Search Results: (none)

Levi almost makes it to the airfield - his path is diverted by two of the four Enemy Rivers on the way from his starting position, but he's lucky enough to find some floating debris in the northernmost ones that he can cross before becoming even more sidetracked. He instead lands in the bungalows in square IX.X.11, where he can either rest for the night or make the short jaunt northwest to IX.T.9 and the airstrip proper after dark.

He'll rest for a couple hours and continue the trek to the airfield before night is over

Morning 024
Starting Square: IX.T.9
Ending Square: IX.EE.9
Duration: 6 hours
General Search Results: (none)

The crosshatch on the map doesn't seem too far away from where Levi currently is, but as he travels and periodically checks back on his transceiver's map, he'll be able to tell that it seems to be moving, inexorably out of reach. It might seem like a trick of the eye at first, but by the time he's passed the bungalows and is nearly at the first Enemy River, the outline of the bay to the south of the marker will make this unambiguous.

Levi will figure it out before he gets too sidetracked: The crosshatch is him, tracking his current position while he travels.

Morning 022 ➜ Night 022
Starting Square: IX.U.9
Ending Square: IX.U.9
Duration: 24 hours
General Search Results:

transceiver upgrade - a stout, thick antenna that looks like it screws into the signal port on top of her transceiver
folding beach chair
stained paper
chunk of insulation foam
eight wood logs
crushed turtle shell
fourteen coconuts
two cans of tuna
large coconut crab
single wireless earbud
yellow utility belt - instantly recognizable as Steph's, but all pouches and holsters are empty
protein bar
beach carry case
beer bottle (empty)
roll of gauze
staple gun (battery and staples not included)

While patrolling in the hours just before sunset, Steph will hear the sound of chuffing and scuffling from the deeper forest a couple kilometers west. It's too dark to see what's making the noise from her position, however, and after a few minutes it stops.

Morning 023
Starting Square: IX.U.9
Ending Square: IX.U.9
Duration: 8 hours
General Search Results:

driftwood
large coconut crab
young sea bird (sand piper, picking at a crab's claw)

Steph can tell, based on the general outline of the coast and the position of the bay, that the crosshatch is somewhere very close to her current position, but it's hard to say where exactly without any definitive landmarks inland on the map itself. I'll say she makes a careful spiral pattern out and around the airstrip to try and triangulate its position...

...at which point she'll realize, as she periodically checks her map, that the crosshatch is following her. Apparently, she is the crosshatch.

Steph's adventure does show her something perhaps more interesting, though: As she wanders west on the side of the airstrip closest to the deeper forest, she'll see a set of fresh hoof tracks in the sandy soil and some scuffs on the trees at about waist-level. The tracks pace a lot near the border of the beach, then seem to disappear inland.

The panel has not been noticeably treated, and is therefore pretty damaged and waterlogged. It's soft and grainy, like an evergreen.

The percolator needs a lot of TLC. Its bottom grounds/water tank is rusted shut, and mold is growing through the spigot in the center.

Well damn, he was hoping for an adventure. He recognizes that this might be useful if he moves around and needs to quickly orient himself, but at the same time he finds this whole thing very suspicious. Is this a beacon of some sort? Can somebody else see him on their map?

Since he doesn't have a very good idea how technology works, he's going to unplug the upgrade and pocket it until he may need it, assuming that it has therefore stopped working and/or broadcasting his position.

Then, since he's geared up to spend some time in the wild, he's going to do just that -- heading more or less straight north, and gradually exploring the IX tile area between columns AA-FF and rows 3-5. Same as before, he's watching for landmarks, dangers, traps, animal tracks or anything useful, but won't spend too much time thoroughly searching unless something catches his eye first.

Well first things first, he's gonna go try that callsign on that damn bungalow.

If he doesn't get in he'll just go back to camp and take it out on the drone lmao it's fine, and that will clear Day 23.

IC DATES: Night 23 --> Morning 25
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: Might explore surrounding squares but will always end up back at IX.T.9 before the end of the day
DETAILS:

Night 23
Not much to report here! Maddy sleeps all through the night on Night 23.

Morning/Day 24
She'll explore/wander around the airfield. She'll rest periodically, but she'll eventually get bored and wander around the airfield to say hello to everyone and see what's going on.

On Morning/Day 24, she will thoroughly search the airfield and any surrounding squares for pieces of glass or anything that looks like Senku's cell phone, based on how he described it to her. She will also look for any signs of the shark creature that saved them although she frankly isn't sure what she's looking for. Maybe teeth?

Night 24
Maddy is asleep all through Night 24 until she wakes up on Morning 25.

Morning 024
Starting Square: III.X.21
Ending Square: III.X.21
Duration: 8 hours
General Search Results:

two handfuls of sage
bag of roasted peanuts

As it turns out, climbing up the side of an airplane is really difficult! Harley makes it most of the way, thanks to her own physical fitness and sheer gumption - far enough to find a gap in the fuselage that lets her nab some goodies wedged in a chair - but as she shifts her weight, so too does the cockpit. The whole thing creaks and leans, Harley's handhold breaks away, and she falls. Miraculously, her landing is broken by the incoming tide, and she escapes the encounter unscathed (save maybe a bruise or two to her body and ego).

Morning 024 ➜ Day 024
Starting Square: IX.T.9
Ending Square: IX.DD.14
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Results:

two handfuls of sage
pocket compact
flip-flop
seashell (medium)
coral chunk
plastic bag

The persistent beep of the transceiver upgrade - which does start up again as soon as Jet plugs it in - is best heard by the river, and it can be heard even while underwater. Interestingly, it seems to become a little less intense when held underwater, and even less if/when Martin holds it.

Focused as they are on testing this new device, both Martin and Jet don't notice the large crocodile-like creature quickly swimming downriver towards them until it's only about ten feet away.

Entering the callsign into the bungalow's keypad doesn't do anything new at first. But a couple of seconds later, his transceiver beeps to indicate an incoming message.

725758: Access request received.
725758: Activate module to override?
725758: WARNING:: This module requires significant resources. Transceiver may restart multiple times.
725758: Text YES to this message if you want to proceed.

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Search Requests

SEARCH REQUESTS

RULES AND GUIDELINES

MAP REFERENCE/TRAVEL CONDITIONS

SUBMISSIONS

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