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

Morning 025 ➜ Night 025
Starting Square: VI.Y.30
Ending Square: IX.W.11
Duration: 24 hours
General Search Results:

wallet (empty)

Once Chloe's injury heals enough for her to keep up with the group on Morning 025, they make quick progress towards the airfield. They arrive at the bungalows just as night falls on Day 025.

I am totally fine with this cold/arduino cure idea! Go nuts, enjoy your robot cough medicine.

AT LAAAAST.

And arduino plot is go, wooo! \o/

K will take the wallet because why not. Might be useful later.

So Chloe and Taissa might be retroactively leaving the group at an earlier date (if they later get crab raved that could just be karma in action...) but that's all still up in the air. But for sure K, Squalo, and the Cat are still together and will just continue on to the airfield during the night. If Taissa and Chloe are still with them, maybe they'll reach the airfield too, or maybe they won't; Schrödinger's lesbians. The important part's that the rescue mission is DONE.

Senku's planning a trip out to meet the Snake player and K will accompany him since it's on the way to Harley's location, so he'll make preparations during the night hours — including packing extra supplies for Harley. He'll also help with some of the general airfield chores, like preparing more bandages for the various injured people to help Randvi out, and set up a bed for the Cat in the same area K himself usually beds down in. Oh, and he'll let Squalo have whatever's left of his whiskey, he probably needs it.

Not sure if the arduino plot will happen here or after they've found Harley (maybe after just so K has an excuse to be babied by his girlfriend hahaha), but K might at least mention feeling technologically unwell to Senku just so he's aware.

Then at some point he'll finally get some well-earned rest. And won't even protest if the Cat decides to be contrary and sleep on him instead of in his own catbed.

Night 025
Starting Square: IX.W.12
Ending Square: IX.T.9
Duration: 8 hours
General Search Results:

chunk of insulation foam
a handful of salmonberries

Wow, really managed to gum up my response earlier - K and remaining company do make it to the airstrip within the first hour or so of Night 025.

Edited (coffee needed) 2023-09-14 14:16 (UTC)

And K will collect everything!

Search Requests

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RULES AND GUIDELINES

MAP REFERENCE/TRAVEL CONDITIONS

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