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

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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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

The transceiver case is kind of like a phone case, but for a walkie-talkie. It is shaped such that it can be clipped onto the back and sides of one while still leaving gaps for the buttons, antenna, and the various ports and knobs on top. She could still try to break it open for goodies, though.

Morning 001
Hour 6: II.A.25

Steph builds a crude shelter in this square.

Hour 7: II.A.25 -> II.C.27 (medium freshwater fish - looks like what would happen if a salmon had a baby with a mudskipper; partially stranded, easy enough to catch by hand)

The stream trails off quickly within the forest, eventually leading to an anemic-looking bubbling spring in a small clearing. There's obvious signs that this used to be more of an oasis, though - lots of mud around an old waterline, rotted and regrown roots. The animal tracks that Steph had been following continue past this point, headed southeast, but tracking the animal without aid of a riverbank to preserve its path requires a lot more thorough searching. Her progress through the forest is reduced accordingly.

Hour 8: II.C.27 -> II.D.27 (small crawfish)

Day 001
Hour 1: II.D.27 -> II.E.28 (one ripe banana)
Hour 2: II.E.28 -> II.F.29
Hour 3: II.F.29 -> II.G.30 (stick of beef jerky - probably well past its expiration date, if you could read it on the faded packaging, but it's still sealed at least)

A much larger creek can be seen ahead, which is also where the tracks Steph saw - plus several others - seem to be congregating. If she waits, and she's feeling like hunting, her food might come to her in a few hours.

Taking the banana and eating it right now. She'll wait at the creek a few hours, but just to see what kind of animals come, and if any predators follow them. She'll give it 3 hours, then she'll retrace her steps back to her shelter. Along the way she'll mark her path, preferably by carving into trees with a sharp rock, but if that's not available she'll break some branches so they don't come all the way off.

She'll try to catch two of the fish.

The rest of the day will be spent collecting dry kindling and dry or green wood, building a fire, attempting to cook the fish and drying any green wood next to the fire.

Assuming nothing terrible happens, the evening will be spent continuing to maintain the fire and attempting to whittle a spear with some rocks.

Day 001
Hour 4 - 6: II.G.30 -> II.H.31

Steph waits patiently in the thick forest near the creek. Only one animal appears around Hour 5 - a small musk deer - to drink from the river's edge, then scamper away back into the jungle.

Hour 7: II.H.31 -> II.F.29
Hour 8: II.F.29 -> II.D.27

As night falls, Steph's ability to safely navigate the thick jungle becomes difficult, significantly hampering her progress.

Night 001
Hour 1: II.D.27 -> II.C.27
Hour 2: II.C.27 -> II.B.26
Hour 3: II.B.26 -> II.A.25

Steph finally breaks through the border between internal jungle and beachside forest, following the creek back to her camp.

She can gather plenty of fallen wood on her trip through the jungle for a fire, and though it might take her a few more hours after dark to get the flames going and cook her captured fish, she should be able to accomplish what she wants to before Morning 002 (albeit without a whole lot of room for sleep afterwards).

Search Requests

SEARCH REQUESTS

RULES AND GUIDELINES

MAP REFERENCE/TRAVEL CONDITIONS

SUBMISSIONS

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