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Glencola Reef Mod Account ([personal profile] glencolans) wrote2023-04-05 03:28 pm

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

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.

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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.



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


meadqueen: (Default)

[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-09-23 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yikes! Randvi is not standing her ground on this one. If she's blocked in by any she's clearing herself a path and getting out of there.
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[personal profile] solitarysoul 2023-09-23 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
snagging that case and shoving the bottle cap, flip-flop, water bottle, multitool and pepper spray in there. also taking the transceiver, looking it over all confused like and then putting it in a pocket to ask someone else about.

and taking the beach peas, aloe leaves and sage back to the hangers cause thats food right???
doomcame: (i'm on fire but i'm trying not to show i)

[personal profile] doomcame 2023-09-23 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
We can do that here!
meadqueen: (Default)

[personal profile] meadqueen 2023-09-23 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
All right!

Randvi is going to run back to the airfield (not searching at all) to warn everyone to avoid the southeast while all of this is going on, then loop back into the earlier request.
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[personal profile] clowngirl 2023-09-23 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Harley will eat the raisins and berries after she arrives at her destination, and stare at the fuselage with a certainty that it's mocking her with unreachable treasures (peanuts). She's forcing herself to wait for K and Senku in hopes that they have better equipment to explore it. She'll take the baby bib as something to wrap and eat food in, and use the broken cargo straps she's found so far to belt her salvaged pants and wrap around her waist so she has somewhere to tuck her walkie. She ignores the lichen and mistakes the sorrel for clover, and wastes some time looking through it to see if she can find one with four leaves for good luck. She'll then make camp and hope she doesn't have to spend more than the night here by herself getting antsy.
obeir: (240)

[personal profile] obeir 2023-09-23 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Everything except the dead jellyfish will be collected. And Senku took the minor injury, so K will feel like a failure for not protecting him better. 😔 He'll dejectedly set up camp with Senku for the evening and keep watch, exchanging messages with Harley for as long as she's awake, and the next morning they'll travel the remaining distance to hopefully meet up with the Snake Player.

ALSO Maddy has given K the transceiver upgrade she found since he's had no luck finding any himself! Once K plugs it into his transceiver, what happens? The lens in particular has him very curious.
cactusy: (Default)

Day 22

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-09-23 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
IC DATES: Day 22 (morning, day, and night)
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: Bedrest.
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[personal profile] timaeus 2023-09-23 02:15 am (UTC)(link)


Except jk Dirk doesn't give up that easily. With nothing new discovered from a closer examination, he notes the time it had activated earlier and sits his ass down in the main room by the terminal. He'll just camp out in here overnight, lightly snoozing, to see if it comes on again at any point.

While chilling before getting a bit of sleep, he goes through the stuff he found earlier and tries out that antenna attachment to see what it does.
Edited 2023-09-23 02:17 (UTC)
cactusy: (Default)

Day 23

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-09-23 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
IC DATES: Day 23 (morning, day, and night)
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: Bedrest.
cactusy: (Default)

Day 24

[personal profile] cactusy 2023-09-23 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
IC DATES: Day 24 (morning, day, and night)
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: Bedrest.
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[personal profile] aluminumandash 2023-09-23 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Knowing he can't overpower a...lizard that's like a head taller than him, Rust's one desperate move (while he still has the use of his limbs) is to try to feel for a walkie on the creature's person. Other than that, he bears the ass-kicking as stoically as he can—crying out in pain, groaning, etc., but not begging or shedding tears. He'll ultimately pass out.

If he's able to (big if...) reply to the creature when it speaks, he'll rasp out: "We're all broken."


AND NOW...more questions ahahahaha sorry:

Will the creature take any of his stuff? Either from his person or the extra supplies hanging from the tree?

Would he be able to observe anything else about the creature mid-ass-kicking? Does it have a tail? 😌 Sharp claws? A long tongue (we won't tell Lalo)? Any details he might observe about its face when they're getting up close and personal? (He'll be trying to take note of this stuff, but he'll also be in a TON OF PAIN, so it's totally fine if everything's just a blur.)

Oh, and just to confirm: did he cross the river before this went down?

ALSO I'M GONNA PONDER THE INJURY THEN GET BACK TO YOU ON WHAT IT IS, please know I'm delighted though!
Edited (ACCIDENTAL INFOMODDING) 2023-09-23 13:58 (UTC)
desperate_times_right: (Default)

[personal profile] desperate_times_right 2023-09-23 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Success! Chloe is going to pull the rope up after her but leave it anchored in case they need to climb down later to get food or if Lalo shows up.

ETA: they'll spend the rest of the day block looking for a sheltered room where they can set up camp.
Edited 2023-09-23 02:53 (UTC)
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[personal profile] somethingintangible 2023-09-23 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Dumb but important (to Maddy) question: does she see any seals on Day 26?
aluminumandash: (cause there's oh so many outlaws)

[personal profile] aluminumandash 2023-09-23 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
LOVING THIS PELT though it's definitely too heavy for Rust to take. Thanks!
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[personal profile] lonelynotforsaken 2023-09-23 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Taking:
- Badge clip
- Two olives
- Two leaves of agave

Notes:
They will be on the lookout for any large logs or other things that could be used to bridge the river while they're walking. They won't move anything, but make note of it for improving access in the future.

Questions:
1. Do the flare-ups occur at any sort of regular intervals?
2. Are the flare-ups just screeching?
3. If they pause to try it underwater again after they cross the river (with Jet standing away), will there be any effect?
4. When it's not flaring up or when it is, is there any sort of change on the transceiver, itself? Any tabs or messages that pop up?
5. About how far down is the river?
6. From their vantage point atop the gorge, are there any notable signs of life/encampment in the jungle below? Martin is a LITTLE concerned about that camp disappearing.
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[personal profile] ichoosefight 2023-09-23 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
How much does Steph now about sea turtles... She will very gently rebury them exactly as she found them, put a couple sticks in the ground like tent stakes to mark out the area, then work extra hard to make the ground look like it's completely normal and natural predators have no reason to dig for anything around here because obviously it's just ordinary sand and not a delicious snack.

She is also going to act like she has no idea who this Dirk person is and she is Not With Him, in case any people or animals are watching, because that's a reasonable thing to try to pretend in the dark of night with no one else around but some unborn turtles.