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]

Day 003
Hour 1: VII.C.25

Jet's investigation of the area immediately around the terminal does not lead to any new revelations, unfortunately, both in terms of careless security or chance item finds.

As Jet starts to turn his attention to the drones, the drone in the center starts to activate, hovering just a few inches off the platform while its rotors rev up. There's a faint buzzing noise as the aperture between its front two prongs narrows and widens, like it's an eye focusing in on Jet from across the room. He probably only has moments to do something before it reacts to his presence.

[metalicarus]

His inclination is to kick it in that split second, but with his knee sending false sense of pain to his brain, he knows better than that. Sort of. In those seconds, he snatches up the shiv Martin left outside the cell and charges the drone, aiming to jam the knife either into that port or into an obvious motor or fan, whatever's easiest to access. His aim will be to stab it and also absolutely quarterback rush it/slam it into whatever wall or structure is behind it. Better safe than sorry! Or safe and sorry, depending...

[glencolans]

The fan blades are the most accessible targets, so that's where the shiv goes. The revving rotors immediately seize and the whole drone dips to one side, unsteadied.

This is also when the drone fully powers on. A pop and crackle later and the prongs on all sides of the machine spark to life - not that this helps the drone at all with the immediate problem of not being able to control its flight, but it does unintentionally defend it from Jet, who charges directly into the active stun batons. He receives a nasty shock that halts his rush in its tracks.

Thankfully for him, the drone is already toast before Jet attacks it. It hits the ground and starts to hover in circles, skittering like an injured bug over the concrete while electricity periodically arcs around its sides.

[metalicarus]

Well, this day went from bad to worse.

The nasty shock is going to leave his legs unreliable and his eyesight on the fritz a while, but once he has...any sense back in him, he's going to try and use that turtle shell of his to push the thing closer to the cell doors so maybe that electricity can short out the doors.

It just might take him a minute..

[glencolans]

Once Jet regains his senses enough to figure out where the drone is, he'll find it still spinning in aimless circles between its pedestal and the central desk with frequent, angry crackles of electricity passing through its prongs. Pushing it towards the cells doors while navigating his existing injury and the lingering effects of what was essentially a taser round is a difficult, tedious endeavor, but not an impossible one with the help of his turtle shell. Within the hour, Jet can very carefully guide the buzzing drone in the right direction.

When it gets within about a foot of the cell door - whichever one Jet is pushing it towards - the keycard reader next to it flashes a green indicator light. Then the deadbolts unlatch with a heavy clunk and the cell door slides up and open into the ceiling.

Jet has 7 hours remaining until Night 003.

[metalicarus]

Jet would have pushed it towards Martin’s cell and Kokichi…is hopefully comfortable in his cause Jet’s not doing that twice without some rest.

As it is, he’ll stagger over to give Martin the can of water with the directive “go slow or you’ll die anyway” and then…he’s going to need to rest for an hour before doing anything with that third drone.

Assuming nothing freaky happens and he can actually get to his feet again after an hour without kissing the floor, he’ll slowly make his way over with turtle shell and shiv in hand to try and break the other drone’s fan blades…without trying to pick it up this time :(

[glencolans]

Jet's initial attack and persistent shoving with the turtle shell has done a number on the floor-stricken drone, but it isn't completely incapacitated; it still crackles and revs the remaining two rotors, enough to make it shudder a couple inches along the ground before it also has to rest. With the shocking prongs still active, it could (very slowly) judder its way towards Jet or Martin and deliver another jolt if it isn't dispatched somehow.

At least it can't move far enough to be a problem in the next hour that Jet rests. The third drone is still idle on the pedestal, making it an easy target for Jet's relentless attacks. All four of its rotors are broken in minutes and it doesn't even start to power on.

Jet has 6 hours remaining until Night 003.

[metalicarus]

The wise thing would be to dispatch that first, but there’s another door to open so he’ll take his rest and keep a wary eye on the thing honking around.

Once the other drone is dispatched, he’ll go back to vaguely guiding the drone with turtle shell or anything else readily available and non-conductive until it can discharge at Kokichi’s door.

Once that’s done, he’ll put it out if it’s misery with the shiv…carefully again.

[glencolans]

It takes a little bit to guide the stricken drone to the next cell over, but Jet has a system now and it works well enough. Again, the drone gets within about a foot of the cell door, the keycard reader flashes green, and Kokichi's door opens.

From there, he can very carefully destroy the last two working rotors on the floor drone with the shiv. The drone continues to buzz and spark, but now it can't do much more than rumble in place while Jet goes about his business.

Jet has 4 hours remaining until Night 003.

[metalicarus]

Thank god, he’ll take it.

The rest of the day and night are going to be spent resting and taking care of Martin. A productive day 003, he’ll be doing very little for the next couple of days.

[glencolans]

When Night 003 starts, the disabled drone on the ground will let out a few more whines, then power down completely, stunning prongs and all. Meanwhile, the drone on the third pedestal will power up - only to also sit there and buzz angrily at the room, thanks to Jet's efforts to cripple it during the day. It will keep doing this all night if Jet lets it.

[metalicarus]

Well, hard to sleep with that going on. Jet will look around for something heavy enough or sturdy enough to maybe smash it with. If there isn't anything, though, he'll revert back to the turtle shell as long as it's able to withstand being a bludgeoning weapon (again).

[glencolans]

Jet searches around for one hour and finds a nice, hefty chunk of concrete to do the deed with. He'll probably shatter it in the process of murdering the robot, but the drone will definitely be nonfunctional by the end of his vicious attack.

[metalicarus]

The murder was justified, but at last he will no longer be a menace to the facility's defenses. For now.