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

[metalicarus]

Sure, he'll keep the barley! Could be useful.

Totally not a concern that it's so open air, not right now!
He's going to carefully pick his way South until he's in a less crumbly looking area to set up 'camp' so he can explore more in the morning.

Once Morning comes, he'll keep his track South to see what he can see.

CW: dead animal

[glencolans]

Night 015 ➜ Morning 016
Starting Square: VI.K.13
Ending Square: VI.K.14
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Results:

• dead animal - looks like an ox, thoroughly picked-over by scavengers
• eight lentil pods
• arrowhead
• MRE - beef stew, vanilla pound cake, bread, peanut butter and grape jelly, chewy candy, lemon-lime beverage powder, four packets of hot sauce, a hot beverage bag and a packet of instant coffee

It takes Jet a couple of hours of poking around, but eventually he's able to find a relatively sheltered, flat area to camp in for the night.

Next morning's travels south does indeed take Jet into a more intact area of the complex, which ends up being some kind of grand entryway. A large, open room takes up most of this square, several stories tall and covered with rows of shattered window panels, with a massive twisting double staircase that goes up to a dozen floors of rooms and open hallways. The staircase itself is intact, but some of the hanging hallways attached to it on the upper floors are not, or creak ominously on their remaining support cables. The rooms that Jet is able to explore seem to be a combination of office or meeting spaces and hotel rooms.

There's a bank of doors that lead outside facing west, opening to a cracked concrete pathway that wraps around the building to square VI.J.13.

[metalicarus]

MRE HEAVEN or he’ll he’ll take all of them + the arrow head and pods. If he can find any dried sinew on the ox, he’ll take that and any bones that seem to still have some salvageable marrow on it.

From there, he’s going to work his way instead of out for now, though he’ll only check rooms and hallways that don’t freak ominously and/or seem like death traps..

He’ll also be keeping an ear out for any movement as he goes and try to keep as quiet as he can himself.

[glencolans]

Day 016
Starting Square: VI.K.14
Ending Square: VI.K.14
Duration: 8 hours
General Search Results:

• clipboard

With a bit of time, the dead ox eventually yields three handfuls of dried sinew and a pound of intact bone. Jet's search of the rooms he can reach without taking too much risk, on the other hand, yields disappointingly little, but not for lack of trying - there's just a lot of ground to cover. Whatever this place was, it was obviously meant to house hundreds of people, and in pretty good accommodations, too.

[metalicarus]

He’ll take those…and the clipboard.

Seeing how much there is, including a whole other direction still needing covered, he’s going to mourn the loss of his acceleration device find a place to rest once it gets dark and stay put. Even when he gets the notice about the storm rolling in the next day.