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 sounds from the nearby bird rookery drown out most all other animal or human noises from the vantage of Lalo's very sturdy lean-to. However, in the last two hours before deep night, Kokichi might not be the only one that finds him here.

The birds (thankfully) stop making nearly so much noise after the sun fully sets, which just makes the distant animal calls from the nearby jungle even louder while Lalo is keeping watch. Close to sunrise - Hour 8 of Night 001 - Lalo will hear the sound of a drone zooming away somewhere between his camp and the ocean, to the east, but it will be too dark to spot anything.

[glencolans]

Sorry about the map - linked the wrong image! It should be fixed now.

Morning 001
Hour 1: V.Q.21 -> V.P.19

In spite of it being low tide, the cave is still submerged enough that Randvi will have to swim in order to explore it, forcing her onto a much-harder-to-navigate ocean tile.

Hour 2: V.P.19 (oysters)

It's incredibly dark in here; seeing more than a dozen meters into the cave is basically impossible without a light source other than the rising sun outside, giving the illusion of a dark, flooded pit to nothingness going nebulously southeast. While Randvi does not see any signs of human activity in her search, she does have plenty of fish tickle her toes, and a cluster of oysters exposed in the low tide near the entrance are easy to pry away if she wants them.

Randvi has 6 hours remaining before Day 001. If the tide was at its lowest when she woke up, it's likely to be at its highest in 4 hours, and will start to noticeably rise in 1 hour. Based on how the water drips down from the ceiling, being in here when that happens is a risky business.

[glencolans]

More north than east, but yes!

Day 2

[cactusy]

IC DATES: Day 2 (day and night)
STARTING SQUARE: III.T.28
ENDING SQUARE: VII.O.1
DETAILS: Still searching thoroughly for electronic things/the source of that announcement!

III.S.29
III.R.30
III.Q.31
III.P.32
VII.O.1

As nightfall nears, she'll keep searching thoroughly, but she'll also spend time hunting for a good sleeping tree, which (along with the same caveats as in the morning) I'm assuming will take some extra time.

[meadqueen]

No worries! I was trying to eyeball it and I was like, hm. This is a lot easier lol.

IC DATES: Day 1 morning - Day 1 day
STARTING SQUARE: V.P.19
ENDING SQUARE: V.S.20? I think?
DETAILS: Okay, so if there's no evidence of human activity in the mouth of the cave the risk involved in continuing in there is way too high at the moment. She'll take the oysters and retreat to the beach at V.Q.20.

Given the time required to navigate the ocean tile I think the tide will already be rising by this point, so it might have to be V.R.20. I'm going to give her an hour at this point to freak out and learn to use the radio.

After that the tide is definitely going to be visibly rising so she's going to have to climb out of there. If the cliff face in the 20 row is accessible she'll climb from there but if not she'll head back to 21.

She's in decent shape and good at climbing (in the game when she climbs the tower she's wearing way heavier wet clothes than she has here) so it's doable but I think getting to and then free climbing a cliff in an unfamiliar environment will probably eat up the rest of the morning.

After that she's probably going to like, lay down on the ground for a bit, but she's also going to need to start looking for water.

[glencolans]

The "blackberries" have a sharp, musky odor, like stale oranges, and are full of clear purple-tinted liquid that leaves behind an extremely sticky residue. The "limes," on the other hand, smell deeply floral and are mostly pith with some tacky flesh between it.

The dodgeball looks mostly sound, but on testing it in the water, Squalo will find that it has many dry-rotted smaller holes in it that give it a slow leak. It might work in a pinch - or if he wraps it with something else and treats it as more of an interior bladder - but it's definitely not ideal.

The hill's crest gives him an overview of the immediate forest in a roughly two-kilometer radius circle around him. He can see the gap in the trees where the river he's been following goes out to sea, to the southwest, and that it continues deeper into the foothills north (slightly northwest). But it also looks like the local elevation increases sharply in that direction, too, with bare dirt of cliffs visible behind tall trees.

Day 002
Hour 4: X.H.2 -> VI.H.32 (hardwood log)
Hour 5: VI.H.32 -> VI.F.32 (plastic badge clip - badge not included)

The trees are noticeably thinning out ahead, due north, and the terrain is quickly getting steeper and rockier underfoot. The river has thinned to a burbling mountain stream.

Hour 6: VI.F.32 -> VI.H.29 (small snake - unknown species, but it doesn't look venomous)

The stream trickles its way down a steep cliff, marking the start of proper mountainous terrain ahead. While this seems like it will be really difficult to traverse later, it does make for a good, sheltered place to set up camp against the rocks. Dry wood and brush are easy to come by with the help of Squalo's growing list of chopping/cutting/stabbing tools.

Squalo has 2 hours remaining before Night 002, which should be plenty of time to set up camp and get a fire going.

[glencolans]

The drone does have some small lights, but they aren't bright enough to, say, give it visibility on extra tiles, or for Rust to pick it out in the dark more than a kilometer away.

Day 001
Hour 7: III.R.26 -> III.T.24 (cloth scrap)

The tide has brought in some new debris to sift through, but no signs of Martin, or in fact any other signs of recent human life aside from his little stacks of stones.

Hour 8: III.T.24 -> III.R.26 (sharpened stick)

There are plenty of quick-and-dirty-style materials available in the thicker jungle for Rust to use to make a crude shelter. The trees are also pretty sturdy, too - he could hypothetically climb into the lower branches of one and be secure enough to doze, if he doesn't toss and turn a bunch in his sleep.

Once Rust has returned to the jungle and established a camp, Night 001 has started. There's nothing stopping him from staying up late to make a fire, though.

[aluminumandash]

IC DATES: Night 1 - > Morning 2
STARTING SQUARE: III.R.26
ENDING SQUARE: III.R.26
DETAILS: Rust has insomnia, so welcome to hell! He won't sleep for more than a couple hours at a time (if that), but he'll pretty much stay in place until morning.

He'll build a fire (using his lighter and whatever brush he can collect) close to the beach, then retreat to the jungle and wait for an hour to see if it attracts any drones.

Assuming nothing calamitous happens, he'll enjoy being warm, dry off any of his stuff that might be damp, and scope out the stars. He's very knowledgeable about constellations and will try to figure out what hemisphere the island's in and nail down the cardinal directions. Once he's done that he'll sketch them in the sand with his new friend pointy stick.

He'll keep the fire going for three hours, then spend the rest of the night up a tree. He'll also be checking in on the walkie, trying to get ahold of Martin, every couple hours.

[sharktrash]

He deems the purple things inedible but does squish a few "blackberries" into his jacket. He'll try tasting a small amount of the liquid.

He'll leave the dodgeball behind.


Day 002

He'll take the clip, and he'll use the log for setting up camp. The tiny snake is getting hurled into the jungle though, sorry!

He'll pick a nice, protected nook against the cliff and set up another very minimal lean-to/tent from some branches and palm leaves.

He also finally caves in and drinks the water from the vertical stream, deciding that it looks clean enough and otherwise he might die from dehydration before the dysentery or whatever gets him.

He'll try to get a fire started (in the clearest area he can find to minimize the risks of it going wild, he'll also enclose the firepit by rocks from around the area) by rubbing a stick into a dry piece of wood in the appropriate way; if eventually successful, he'll be skewering the eel on some branch, cooking it over the fire and eating it.

Then he sits under his makeshift roof, once again with the hatched in his hand, and half-dozes through the night, still trying to keep wary of danger. He would still likely wake up from footsteps or noises close to him, but he is quite tired and will probably pass out more completely toward the morning.

[glencolans]

Morning 001
Hour 1: I.BB.16 -> I.FF.16 (transceiver case - forest green with lighter green stripes that glow in the dark)
Hour 2: I.FF.16 -> II.D.16 (fist-sized chunk of sea glass - brown)

The sparse forest on the edge of the beach gets deeper further south - which is also the direction that Steph notices a set of small deer tracks hugging the denser foliage, going roughly southwest.

Hour 3: II.D.16 -> II.C.20 (rusted adjustable wrench)
Hour 4: II.C.20 -> II.A.22 (rosehips)
Hour 5: II.A.22 -> II.A.25 (water spinach)

The tracks lead Steph directly to a small stream that continues along the edge of the thicker jungle west, likely all the way out to sea. The tracks themselves disappear into the underbrush following the stream east.

Steph has 3 hours remaining until Day 001.

[glencolans]

The water tastes unpleasantly metallic and a little slimy, but it probably beats dying of thirst!

There aren't any notable exposed wires. On the empty pad, though, Martin can get more details: The drones appear to slot into place between a top panel and a bottom depression, and there's a set of differently-colored metal circles on the underside of the top panel specifically. They're especially difficult to target via water squirting, but they're also the most promising targets. Martin's efforts over the next two hours produce a decent amount of water there and a small puddle in the basin.

Just before Day 002, the slightly-ajar front door suddenly whirs and grinds open, dragging its bent frame across the ground to make way for a drone returning from patrol. The drone immediately hovers itself into place on the empty, waterlogged platform, and its rotors shut down.

A few seconds pass. Then, a loud pop and the smell of electrical smoke. Faint trails of it can be seen drifting away from the platform. The drone in the next platform over spins to life and hovers quickly out of the building, then the front door judders back into place.

It's now Day 002, and Martin's stomach will no longer play nice with him as all of that horrible toilet water he drank kicks in.

[glencolans]

Morning 002
Hour 8: III.U.28 -> III.T.28 (sturdy vine - roughly 2' of it)

Day 002
Hour 1: III.T.28 -> III.S.29 (sturdy vine - roughly 2' of it)
Hour 2: III.S.29 -> III.R.30 (one mango)
Hour 3: III.R.30 -> III.Q.31

The terrain is starting to become kind of perilous - sheer ridges and steep hills are becoming more common the further south Shaw travels.

She'll hear the faint whirr of a passing drone somewhere behind her, to the north, but it sounds pretty distant and only lasts for a minute or so.

Hour 4: III.Q.31 -> III.P.32 (strange fruit - might mistake it for another mango, but it's incredibly soft to the touch and full of tiny black seeds)

Shaw encounters a tall cliff head-on, marking the start of the foothills. It takes some time to find a path to the top, but her higher vantage offers slightly increased range of vision over the surrounding jungle than she would have otherwise.

Hour 5: III.P.32 -> VII.O.1 (elderberries)

Shaw has 3 hours to play with before Night 002, giving her plenty of time to find a sleeping tree in VII.O.1. Interestingly, when the now familiar announcement goes off again, she can hear an echo - the louder source from where she came from, starting to grow fuzzy and indistinct, and a quieter, sharper source from somewhere else. The two sources sound off at the exact same time, and based on the cadences and inflections of each, are saying the exact same things.

[cactusy]

Taking the vines and the mango (but not the mystery fruit, and also not the berries)!

Will she be able to get any sense of which direction the quieter, sharper source is coming from?

[glencolans]

Not quite, but timing and context would indicate that it's coming from somewhere south of her current position.

[salamanca]

Question!

So, the drone is to the east of him — can he tell from the sound of it which direction it's going? Like, is it also heading further east or is the sound too faint/faraway/covered by animal sounds to get any of that kind of info?

[lonelynotforsaken]

Well, it's lucky there's a toilet to be sick on. Martin will spend... a good while just being sick and miserable and self-pitying. He'll probably even have himself a little cry as this cursed flesh prison of his rebels. He misses the apocalypse. He didn't have to eat or drink. Can he go back to that, please?

He knows he's running out of options to get out of here and he's still pretty darn certain that help isn't coming for him. If he can manage to not be making use of the gross toilet for a little while during the day, he'll use his faux-leather jacket to wrap around the bar that looks the rustiest, sit down, plant his feet on the bars and use his legs to pull on it. He's a pretty big guy who spent god only knows how long walking from Scotland to London through the fearpocalypse. He has more faith in his legs than his arms to actually accomplish anything here if it's going to be any sort of possible.

EDIT: Because Squalo offered some additional suggestions... Martin will also try checking under the mattress to see if there's some trap door or hole that he's missed there. He'll also try to just physically push the door up in spite of the deadbolts. He won't spend very long on that if it's clear the locks are for more than just show.

[metalicarus]

Excellent! Jet will:

-Pocket the bone in his jacket pocket
-Traverse the river with...reasonable care
-Take the dead squid and the tangled fishing line
-Catch the crab and tie it with what he can of the fishing line (still tangled)
-Leave the large crab and the dead jellyfish and the bottlecap...
-Take the partial hemp net
Ending the morning with one pocket partially filled and a handful of...squid. Plus a 'pet' crab (inhumanely held tbh)

-He'll take the whelk shell...and shove the squid in it. That's going in his other largest pocket
-He'll take the partial turtle shell, would that be a good bludgeoning weapon for the fiesty crab and the small crab he has inhumanely tied and not killed?

Day 3

[cactusy]

IC DATES: Day 3 (morning)
STARTING SQUARE: VII.O.1
ENDING SQUARE: VII.L.8
DETAILS: Still hunting for the source of that announcement, searching thoroughly as she goes!

VII.O.2
VII.N.3
VII.N.4
VII.M.5
VII.M.6
VII.L.7
VII.L.8

[ichoosefight]

Can the transceiver case be opened?

Taking all the items with her, picking as many rosehips as she can because she's reasonably sure that's safe to eat. Sadly I don't think she has the knowledge to recognize water spinach.

Stopping at the stream to build herself a very quick, very basic shelter from sticks, leaves, and whatever rope-like plants might be available. Then she'll follow the animal tracks in search of more food sources.

Day 2

[trialbyliar]

IC DATES:
STARTING SQUARE: VII.X.24.
ENDING SQUARE: ????
DETAILS: Kokichi and Lalo spend Night 001 at their camp, possibly being joined by Jet if he makes it to their location without issue. Kokichi's a chronic insomniac with trust issues, but he'll at least pretend to sleep most of the night and probably actually pass out for a while despite his paranoia just from being worn out.

In the morning, Kokichi leads them back along the river moving west, giving the excuse that he saw fish and they can try using the hook and makeshift pole he found to catch some. They can dig around for some bugs or worms for bait. They'll take their time moving west, stopping occasionally (for long stretches of time, thanks Lalo) to try fishing. Since there's only one pole, he'll let Lalo be the fishing dad and poke around the areas thoroughly while he waits. He'll probably slip away occasionally despite Lalo's best efforts to search the area more thoroughly, but he'll stay fairly close and won't ever go for too long so he doesn't risk getting caught on his own.

Kokichi's main goal is looking for any sign of the drone he heard yesterday. He's keeping an ear out for the sound of it and looking for any sign of the drones or wherever they return to. How far they get will probably depend on whether they encounter any drones or any other obstacles.

Day 2

[salamanca]

Lalo and Kokichi (and possibly Jet too? Exciting!) will head west along the river. They will move at a g l a c i a l l y slow pace, and if they find a good fishing spot, Lalo will stop them there for 4 - 6 hours. He is very aware Kokichi is lying about the fish and is determined to make him pay for it by getting him up at the ass-crack of dawn to sit still in one place and not move for several hours. :) He will thoroughly search wherever they stop — he's not really looking for anything specific, so much as just anything that stands out or is unusual.

He'll try NOT to let Kokichi out of his sight this time, and may have to leave his fishing spot to wrangle/collect Kokichi if/when he, probably inevitably, sneaks/runs off.

[glencolans]

Morning 001
Hour 3: V.P.19 -> V.Q.20
Hour 4: V.Q.20 (freaking out)
Hour 5: V.Q.20 -> V.R.20

The cliff isn't so sheer that it would impede someone determined enough to scale it - and especially not someone like Randvi, who has an inordinate amount of free-climbing experience under her belt - but the wet clothes, lingering disorientation and mounting panic aren't working in her favor. At one point, while scrabbling her way up the cliff, Randvi slips and falls part of the way down the rocks, resulting in a minor injury and a significant amount of travel time wasted as she's forced to retrace her progress. The injury, at least, shouldn't hamper her ability to travel normally after this.

Hour 5 - 8: V.R.20 (resting and still panicking?)

It's now the start of Day 001. From her current position, all Randvi can see is the top of the cliff stretching to her north and starting to fall off to her south; maybe the inland rivers feeding the vibrant jungle to the east are more likely to flow out to sea in that direction?

[glencolans]

Rust's fire thankfully (unless he was hoping to attract a drone) doesn't seem to grab any attention, mechanical or otherwise. It isn't until Hour 6 (around 1AM) that Rust hears the sound of one passing him by, again to the north, but it's too dark for him to see where it is or determine what direction it's headed in before the humming fades.

The sky is incredibly clear here at night, making star-mapping easy. Rust can determine that they must be somewhere equatorial based on the shared set of northern and southern hemisphere constellations.

[glencolans]

Squalo has successfully set up a simple camp in tile VI.H.29. The water in the nearby stream tastes pure and fresh, and won't give Squalo any trouble during the night. It takes him the better part of two hours to get a full fire running, but at least he does.

The cooked eel smells incredibly fishy, and without any sauce to put on it, it also tastes incredibly fishy and turns out kind of dry, but culinary perfection is hardly the goal here. The point is, it's edible and doesn't make him immediately sick. Success!

Nothing else of note happens before Morning 003.

[sharktrash]

(Joke's on the universe, he loves fishy fish 😂)