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.

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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.

<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]

Does this floor look similar decor-wise (from what's left to actually see lol) to what they saw on the lower floor yesterday? Is the outlet a two-prong (I'm assuming yes because it's on the wall) or more like what they saw in the hangar?

Also going the other direction from Steph lol - how many floors are above this one? Is it possible to get to a higher floor and/or the roof?

If not, is there anything interesting to see from this height out the window?

[glencolans]

Although it's hard to tell specifics with the state of decay everything is in, the décor does look similar, yes. The outlet is also two-prong, distinctly dissimilar from what's been uncovered in the hangar.

There's exactly one floor above this one, but it's basically become the roof with some uneven rubble walls around the border.

[meadqueen]

Hm. She won't try it if it seems too unstable - no point in succeeding in all these risks and then losing at the last minute because she got greedy. If she can get up there (preferably from inside through the ceiling) the intention is to look out to sea/across land from a high point (also to look for weather vanes because people keep asking her to do that but with this damage, I don't think there will be any lol). If she can't get up there she’ll entertain whatever Steph is trying to do with lower floor access and then climb back down.

[glencolans]

It looks HIDEOUSLY unstable. Getting back down might be kind of a challenge, too, but a somewhat controlled descent is probably better than falling through about six floors of rubble.

[meadqueen]

Rats! Okay, barring any disasters with Steph they're climbing back down with Randvi’s prize of one (1) toilet paper tube, and heading back to camp for the evening.

[glencolans]

Since she presumably would have taken a poke around with Steph on their descent to the next floor down:

Day 016
Starting Square: IX.W.12
Ending Square: IX.W.12
Duration: 4 hours
General Search Results:

• comforter
• seven handfuls of seaweed
• bottlecap
• transciever skin - matte black

[meadqueen]

Is the comforter in similar condition to the others they found yesterday? Oh should have asked: is it plain white or with a design?

Taking everything, although they're high enough up this time that she's probably going to have to bunch the comforter around her waist to get down safely.

As long as there isn't anything else Steph wants to do, they should probably start climbing back down - I'm reading it right that there are 4 hours left in the day block?

ETA: oh I should have asked this before but the hotel is kind of like most of the other disaster looking areas with no signs of bodies, right?

[glencolans]

The comforter is in similar condition, yes - it probably used to be white and probably never will be again, but it's intact enough to be cleaned and still usable. You're also correct in assuming that there are no visible bodies (human ones, anyway - there may be the occasional dead fish). There are four hours left in the day, and at least one of those hours is spent climbing back down safely.