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

[meadqueen]

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.

[glencolans]

He also throws a crab in there soon after, in case that improves Steph's estimation of him any.

The eggs are near the surface of the sand, but otherwise look undisturbed - they could be alive, maybe? Steph will just have to rebury them and find out later!

[glencolans]

A "!" symbol shows up on Steph's map on the northeastern edge of the island's outline.

[solitarysoul]

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???

[glencolans]

The machine doesn't do anything when Dirk steps inside, and it keeps its secrets well-hidden from him. The interior of the spinning arms seems to have some kind of material under the surface, reminiscent of solar panels, but they're sealed shut. The platform in the center is frustratingly nondescript. No other details stand out to him as especially significant.

[glencolans]

This is technically happening roughly 8 hours before they get there, so, maybe!!

Also, just making sure before I reply: Are we ready to move forward with rolling the outcome for Taissa, or is a separate search request in the works for that?

[glencolans]

Randvi's skills with her warhammer really shine here; eight of the coconut crabs are dispatched outright by precise swings, and the rest don't fall near enough to disrupt her path. She escapes the hoard as they scuttle over and rapidly consume their own on the mad dash southeast.

[doomcame]

We can do that here!

[meadqueen]

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.

[clowngirl]

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]

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.

Day 22

[cactusy]

IC DATES: Day 22 (morning, day, and night)
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: Bedrest.

[timaeus]

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.

Day 23

[cactusy]

IC DATES: Day 23 (morning, day, and night)
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: Bedrest.

Day 24

[cactusy]

IC DATES: Day 24 (morning, day, and night)
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: Bedrest.

[glencolans]

Morning 026 ➜ Morning 028
Starting Square: XV.K.16
Ending Square: VI.L.15
Duration: 56 hours
General Search Results:

• two shoots of sugarcane
• corn husk
• broken spade blade
• old, dirty rag
• three wild onions
• granite
• shale
• toque
• a blackberry
• two handfuls of common hogweed

The journey is long, but not as long as it could be; Lalo's post-revival limp isn't enough to significantly hamper his movement across long distances, and the scars on his knees appear to be more aesthetic than debilitating. If anything, the tight ache in his chest that forces him to stop and cough every thirty minutes or so is holding him back the most. Still, he makes pretty good time, arriving at his destination right at the end of Morning 028.

Along the way, Lalo sees:

• Two very large rivers that he has to cross in tile XI, which cut through the thick, wild mangrove forest and jungle to the north. Thankfully, in spite of their width, neither river is especially deep or fast-moving, so they're both easy to traverse. The whole forest is vibrant here, rich with the sounds of howling animals and screaming birds, some familiar and some completely alien. There are obvious signs that humans have gone through here to take advantage of the local bounty: The occasional bare footprint, some buried firepits, scarred trees that have had limbs removed. No obvious traps, though.


• An impressive-looking caldera filled with water, which seems to shimmer in the early afternoon light in all the colors of the rainbow from a plethora of minerals in on the shores and in the center. It covers four square kilometers right in the bottom corner of tile VI, but there's enough of a rim for Lalo to skirt around it. He can spot several isolated paths from the ridge down to the center worn into the rock from many uses. Lalo leaves the place stinking of sulfur.


• A massive, disembodied airplane fuselage at the bottom of a valley in square VI.Z.29. It creaks and groans in the wind; even coming at it from the top of the ridge, Lalo can tell that trying to explore it would be exceptionally dangerous.


• A large, fast-moving river flowing northwest in the center of a mountain valley. This eventually leads to the abandoned office complex in tile VI, where it has swelled into turbulent rapids. Lalo sticks to the southern edge, where he stumbles upon an extremely creepy shrine next to a tree in square VI.N.17.


• And, of course, the office complex at the top of the mountain ridge in squares VI.K.14, VI.K.13, and VI.J.13, although from his stopping point he only really sees the southernmost section.

While he travels, Lalo is forced to camp in squares XI.C.13 and VI.X.20 for his requisite 3 hours of sleep per 24-hour period.

[aluminumandash]

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!

[glencolans]

It's a rough, long climb, but thanks to Chole's preparation, Taissa can safely make it to the top of the cliffs roughly halfway through Day 026.

[desperate_times_right]

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.

[somethingintangible]

Dumb but important (to Maddy) question: does she see any seals on Day 26?

[aluminumandash]

LOVING THIS PELT though it's definitely too heavy for Rust to take. Thanks!

[glencolans]

Morning 027 ➜ Day 027
Starting Square: VI.J.13
Ending Square: VI.L.14
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Results:

• crawfish
• large worm
• badge clip
• two olives
• a handful of meadow sage
• chewed bone
• two leaves of agave

Martin and Jet have to walk a long way down the river before they can find a safe place to cross it - all the way to VI.U.17 (interestingly, the stand and log that they crossed in VI.S.18 are no longer there). This at least gives them plenty of time to experiment with the transceivers. As soon as Jet walks an appreciable distance away from his transceiver while Martin carries it, the screeching noise dies down in intensity, and stops completely when it's roughly five feet away from him. It also flares up on its own on eight separate occasions while Martin has it on him.

It's the end of Day 027 by the time they make it back to the fork in the river below in square VI.L.14, now with the benefit of being on top of the mountain ridge. However, it's now pretty clear that this is not a good way to reach the office complex nearby; the river rapids have cut a trench through the mountain ridge, leaving the edge of it that the buildings are on a veritable island about fifty feet away. It does look like there used to be some kind of bridge that spanned the distance up here, but all that remains now is a pair of metal support plinths and scraps of chain attached to them.

[lonelynotforsaken]

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.

[ichoosefight]

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.

[glencolans]

The antenna attachment doesn't seem to do anything at first, until Dirk checks his incoming messages. Each message now has a number next to it formatted as "XXX.X" (for example, 015.7). Based on how the smaller numbers are next to messages from people Dirk knows are nearby, it's a safe bet that this is some kind of distance measurement.

The machine does not stir at all overnight, or at the start of Morning 025.