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

[aluminumandash]

Does the dog whistle match (or look similar to) any of the other whistles Rust's found? Could it be repaired?

Any way of telling what kind of oil is in the container? What color is it?

OOPS and how reusable are the bandages?

[glencolans]

It is the start of Night 033 by the end of this request.

[aluminumandash]

o7 thanks!

[glencolans]

This dog whistle seems similar to the one Rust found yesterday - hard plastic, but crushed rather than just dented. Repairing it would be very difficult.

The oil is quite dark and has a strong smell to it. It's either crude oil or extremely dirty motor oil, probably.

These bandages are dirty, but intact; they could be reused safely if washed (or unsafely if in a pinch).

[somethingintangible]

It probably doesn't see her, but she waves at the fin! Just in case. She'll glance around the shore for any sign of Martin's bottle project too (again, also a long-shot, but just in case it or pieces of it washed up or something!) but again - she won't expend too much time or energy on that since she's more concerned with getting to the airfield and kind of ??? in general right now.

Day 34, man returns 10 days after getting the crap beaten out of him

[aluminumandash]

IC DATES: Night 33 - Morning 34
STARTING SQUARE: VII.I.6
ENDING SQUARE: Circling the cabin and hopefully living long enough to meet up with Shaw around VII.K.8
DETAILS: FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY common sense triumphs and Rust and Shaw call a halt to their scouting efforts (while still covered in mud and leaves…ahahahahaha). They won’t make a fire, but they will burn the elephant fat candle for a little while. Hopefully it’ll provide enough light for them to undertake a few nighttime projects: gathering the materials for a (future) smoky signal fire (green branches and any moss that’s around) and, in Rust’s case, whittling three—audible to human ears—whistles out of tree branches (assuming he’s able to find some) or willow shoots.

They’ll sleep in shifts, listening for any unusual jungle activity, sounds of distress, all that good stuff.

Assuming they pass an uneventful night, at first light, they’ll leave some supplies at the camp—aforementioned signal fire supplies, one of Rust’s many lighters (the one that’s black with red flames!), a bottle of lighter fluid, a bottle of water, a metal cup and sachet of tea, one of the skua feathers, 3 ft of rope, a sleeping bag, and the fish pelt wrapped around a tusk (those last two just because Rust doesn’t want to drag them around).

That done, Rust and Shaw will touch up their camo then split up—circling the cabin from opposite directions with the intention of meeting more or less in the middle (VII.K.8 or so). Shaw approaches through the foothills, and Rust circles around from the jungle side. They’ll both be searching thoroughly as they go—Rust will be looking for traps, tracks, crossbow bolts, and evidence of recent clean-up (intentionally shifted tree limbs and so forth). He’ll try not to get so close to the cabin that he’s actively dodging traps (that’s for later!) but he’ll want to be close enough to observe. If there’s enough animal activity that it makes sense to do so, he’ll find a spot to settle in and watch for a while—see if animals are willing/able to approach the cabin without getting snapped up by traps.

He’ll also be looking for trees that might offer a good vantage on the cabin...not for himself, obviously…and making note of whether the scent of smoke goes away or intensifies as he scouts.

He and Shaw will be aiming to meet up before noon, so if any of these activities would drag on longer than that, assume he’d prioritize the meetup!

[aluminumandash]

DON'T LOVE ALL THESE DOG WHISTLES...thank you!

Day 33

[cactusy]

Here.

[cactusy]

Taking the flint, the vine, the fang the tea leaves, the wood planks, the spinach, the garlic, the crawfish, and the watercress.

Anything specific she might note about the fang?

Day 34

[cactusy]

Here.

Day 032 - ???

[wingbound]

IC DATES: morning 032 - ???
STARTING SQUARE: IX.U.9
ENDING SQUARE: X.M.19
DETAILS:

After arriving at the airfield on morning 032, Levi will debrief with Randvi, leave all of Maddy's belongings at the hangars (except for the transceiver skin that she gave him, he's keeping that), check on Levi Jr, and see if anybody around the area needs help with daily tasks.

On his own part, he will want to make a proper shovel from the shovel head he found, so he'll take one of those sturdy wooden poles meant to be spears from the communal stash, remove the point, and fashion it into a shovel handle. If needed, he'll also wrap some wire/rope/whatever he can find at base around the connection point to make sure it stays.

Then he'll restock on supplies (water and some food) and find a quiet corner to get some sleep/rest, before leaving again on Morning 033.

He's going to head back to their camp at X.M.19, to check if Maddy hasn't turned up in the meantime. He'll stick to the familiar path as before, following rivers until he sees a clear/safe crossing, check for traps and keep his senses sharp.

Once he reaches the Big Tree he's going to look around for any signs of traces of life, check whether his message and water bundle are still intact, and camp up in the branches for a bit to rest for a few hours.

Then he'll continue east toward tile XI, mostly in a straight/horizontal line unless he runs into anything blocking his path or dangerous, but he will try to move along the treeline of the jungle rather than walk across the path ravaged by the giant crab, because he wants to have some cover/ability to scale up into a tree just in case.

[sharktrash]

He will take the floss, mangoes and sunglasses!

He's not aware of the specific dangers of crab meat but also he does figure that seafood goes bad quick enough that multiple trips aren't viable, so he'll just haul as much of it as he can carry in one go back to base. It seems K is aware of it though so he'll probably make sure nobody gets food poisoning from that!

He'll spend days 029-031 cutting down the rest of the lumber for Team Science projects!

Day 032 - ???

[sharktrash]

IC DATES: Morning 032 - ???
STARTING SQUARE: VI.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: ???
DETAILS:

It's the day of Operation: Burial At Sea!

He's going to be dumping most of his inventory in Randvi's hangar for safekeeping. Notably he's going to hand his hatchet over to her personally, because he doesn't trust the other residents not to steal it and it's too valuable to risk losing at sea.

The things he's taking along for the trip include:
- stuff he arrived with (minus coat)
- dueling cane, rusted
- wooden spear (carved)
- net
- section of chain
- swimtrunks: dark blue with white flowers, medium-sized (wearing)
- sunglasses (wearing)

He'll also take the following from the communal stash:
- some water containers (with drinkable water)
- plenty of dried fish
- beach umbrella
- beach towel
- his bundle of spears/harpoons crafted for the raft (roughly 10-15 as originally planned, he's leaving the rest for the others in the base for defense against boars and whatever else)

He and Senku (AND DIRK!!) are going to be moving the raft from wherever it's been left last (IX.Z.14?) and get it into the water. They'll follow along the shore until they're roughly in position to head southwest from the airfield, where the mysterious lights had appeared after the storm (Senku has seen/knows the approximate direction/location).

Then they'll be paddling away from the shore, also using the sail if the wind is favorable, and head to try checking out that particular spot!

They will likely pause and not cross if they run into anything that looks like a sudden drop-off (a.k.a. "The Trench"), as that's what Squalo promised to Martin; if that happens, they will likely float in place for a bit and discuss their options first.

Day 32

[meadqueen]

IC DATES: Day 32 morning
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: around XIV.G.10 somewhere
DETAILS: Randvi agreed to witness Operation: Burial at Sea from the shore, so she will be there watching until either something happens or she can't see them anymore.

[timaeus]

With this particular issue now clearly not something he's gonna solve immediately, Dirk makes his way back to the airfield to crash early to make up for his earlier lack of sleep and also how much he's been straining himself while injured.

(You won this day, terminal, but he'll be back.)

Day 28 -> Day 31

[timaeus]

IC DATES: Morning 028 -> Night 031
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: Dirk does something very uncharacteristic and takes it easy for a few days to let himself heal up. Granted, his version of "taking it easy" still involves thorough searches of the airfield, taking stock of supplies to see what's available, and helping with clean up after the storm and crabs. At least he's not going out to fuck around in the jungle.

After he's healed up and while waiting for the others to be ready for this planned ocean venture, he gets into a more intense examination of the power system at the airfield. He looks around similarly to how he did at the bungalow to establish how the building was supposed to be powered, experiments with the single-prong power cable he found if anything looks like it might be functional with it, follows any wiring/pipelines as best he can to see where things connect and if there might be some underground power source here too.

Once he's done as much with all that as he can, he'll raid the Team Science inventory for tools, wire, magnets, and other basic materials and scraps and see if he can put together a simple electric generator. He'll make this first attempt powered by a hand-crank, but he'll take a look around whenever he takes breaks to see if there's anywhere nearby he might be able to make use of wind or water power for future attempts.

[obeir]

Whew, gem crisis averted. And they're getting at least a few answers about what the hell's going on on the island, double win. The lack of answer to K's question about revival is noted, but for now he also chooses to move on. It's possible IN732Q might not understand what he means.

The blue apatite makes it a triple win; IN732Q clearly appreciates the stones and that also helps narrow down what would make good gifts for it in the future.

So the Leopard isn't aware of the Shark and the Orca? Or just doesn't know them by those titles. FE710Y. Maybe they can contact her later, too.

"In the water?" K guesses, giving Senku a knowing look. Could she possibly be Martin's shark friend? Fortunately Senku was actually present for it, while K has only been told secondhand, so he leaves sharing that story to Senku.

[obeir]

Leaving the scraps of meat, pelican (after tossing some fresh crabmeat to it because why not), and dead jellyfish, and K will take the rest. Awwwyeah finally got a transceiver skin! And it's 🌈rainbow! This pleases me. K will immediately put it on his transceiver.

Is the bag of chips sealed and is there any indication of how old they might be? He's hoping they can be a gift for Harley, but she's already had one bout of food poisoning and doesn't need more.

Day 029 - Day 033

[obeir]

IC DATES: Day 029 - Day 033
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: More catching up.

Day 029
K continues with the usual airfield maintenance and chores and settling into island life with Harley, including setting up more of their own little area in one of the hangars. Due to the vibriosis risk, he'll be steadily clearing out the crab carcasses and crabmeat rather than attempting to preserve any of it, womp womp. He'll cook up any freshly killed crabs, though. And he does his daily map sharing and works more on his carving of IN732Q.

Day 030
Same as above. K will also check around to see if he can find and spear any boars for food (bacon bacon bacon), while keeping an eye out for: any signs of Maddy, any items he could gift Harley, any pretty stones for IN732Q.

Day 031
Once Squalo has finished cutting wood for the fishing weir, K gets to work rebuilding it in IX.EE.11. And continues his daily map sharing.

Day 032
K and Randvi will see Senku, Squalo, and Dirk off on their rafting adventure, K assisting as needed and promising to keep the Medusa safe for Senku. He'll then continue rebuilding the weir if it wasn't finished on 31. And of course, daily map sharing.

Day 033
Another day for rebuilding the weir if it's needed, or the usual airfield maintenance and chores if it's not, and he'll start checking the weir for fish. He'll periodically check in with the raft team if the transceivers reach that far, and will ask Randvi if he and Harley can borrow her climbing equipment for whenever they go on their island date to investigate the plane wreckage(s) (which he'll still consider a date even if they invite more people along). Also the usual daily map sharing.


And I think I'll pause K here just in case anything significant happens on any of these days that could affect things going forward.

[glencolans]

Amongst the sand, Maddy does find a few shards of glass that look like they could have belonged to a bottle, but they're so small and nondescript that it's impossible to say for certain if they are the remains of Martin's project.

[glencolans]

The fang looks like it was shed naturally, like a shark's tooth. It's about the size of a human incisor and doesn't look hollow.

[glencolans]

The bag of chips is sealed, which is a small miracle considering the state of the packaging. Whatever might have been printed on it - including an expiration date - has been abraded away by sand and time, giving the aluminum underneath a slightly roughened texture.

[cactusy]

She'll take that as well, then!

[glencolans]

Morning 033 ➜ Night 033
Starting Square: VII.A.2
Ending Square: VII.I.6
Duration: 24 hours
General Search Results:

• crawfish
• sturdy branch
• a handful of black pepper
• broken spear shaft
• small orange snake
• chunk of sulfur
• mysterious weapon shell - small, rectangular, with an empty glass vial in the center
• shale
• strip of cloth
• seven handfuls of lichen
• small bottle of lighter fluid
• metal shiv
• broken collar
• bullet shell (10mm)
• clump of white fur, almost completely translucent when held up to a source of light
• makeshift chisel
• bottle of carbonated water
• small blanket
• flint
• carabiner clip
• garden trowel

Rust and Shaw make use of his and Lalo's old campsite/elephant crater as their cabin spying outpost. It's still mostly intact, remarkably enough.

Feeling reasonably confident in the state of their camouflage, Rust and Shaw peek over the ridge to the cabin. It's still in good shape. No signs of crab damage or otherwise. The longer they hang out, the more they get faint whiffs of smoke on the air, though neither of them sees any smoke nearby or on their horizons. Local wildlife is brazen and frequently stumbles on them while they stay hidden (at one point a small tusked deer attempts to graze on Shaw's back), but CG remains as elusive as ever.

Shaw does not hear anything during her nighttime watches; the forest is awash with various animal noises, mostly bugs and the occasional hooting owl, but otherwise nothing suspicious.

[glencolans]

Night 033 ➜ Morning 034
Starting Square: VII.I.6
Ending Square: VII.K.8
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Results:

• lighter (empty)
• bear trap, already sprung
• partial bottle of lighter fluid
• hand grinder
• snapped bowstring
• metal shiv
• small bottle of lighter fluid
• eight morel mushrooms
• small paring knife
• belt buckle
• a caocao pod
• two broken arrows
• six cloves
• candy bar wrapper
• coconut waterskin

Rust does not hear anything during his nighttime watches; the forest is awash with various animal noises, mostly bugs and the occasional hooting owl, but otherwise nothing suspicious.

His search to the northeast of the cabin doesn't reveal much in the way of subtle clues, but he does get a few overt ones. The already sprung bear trap is conspicuously left out in the open, and the two broken arrows are close to it, still embedded in a nearby tree. A trail of blood spatter leads from this square (VII.K.7) to VII.K.8, and then further west, directly through the field of trees towards square VII.J.8. The smell of smoke has mostly stopped at this point, fading gradually over the course of the morning rather than getting stronger or weaker by proximity, and Rust does spot what looks like a suitable observation tree in square VII.K.7.

With his injury, it takes Rust the entire morning to thoroughly search these squares and make it to the meetup point.