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

IC DATES: Morning 25 >>> Day 25
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.O.12
DETAILS:

Maddy will try to distract herself from her injury, her increasing need to wander and her feud with AN000N, growing increasingly antsy. She'll spend the first part of the morning wandering around the airfield looking for women's shoes or anything cloth-like she can make clothes with, as well as needles or thread or yarn or craft scissors, etc.

Eventually she'll become even more antsy though, and so she will wander to the beach, still thoroughly searching each square she moves through on the way for traces of Senku's phone, just in case.

When she gets to the ocean, she will fling her walkie as far from her/the shore she possibly can, throwing it into the water. Good fucking riddance, she figures. What does she even need this stupid thing for if it's bad? Yeah, she can think of uses for it, but so what? She can always borrow someone else's if she REALLY needs to, she figures.

Morning 025 ➜ Day 025
Starting Square: IX.T.9
Ending Square: IX.P.12
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Results:

plastic sand pail
seven handfuls of seaweed
shark tooth
scrap circuitboard
curtain - white with large pink flowers on a vine
glass
two rolls of thread
five handfuls of sage
mangled scraps of unidentifiable meat (currently being consumed by a coconut crab)
medium coconut crab
necklace - golden chain, bauble of strangely glowing clear crystal attached
a turtle egg
shot glass
blade from a jet engine compressor

Thoroughly searching squares while still injured takes up a lot of Maddy's time, but not enough of it to keep her from reaching the ocean just before nightfall. The movement does help abate those feelings of restlessness, though. She chucks her transceiver far into the waves where it disappears.

Taking the glass and the scrap circuit board for Senku! Taking the thread, too. How dirty/gross is the curtain? She may or may not take it depending on if it's nasty or not.

She puts the necklace on. Does anything happen? Regardless, she'll be taking that too.

She'll leave everything else where she found it.

Edited 2023-09-15 19:36 (UTC)

The curtain is a little dingy, but none of the stains on it look permanent.

Nothing happens when Maddy puts on the necklace. Unlike what she might be expecting, the crystal is ever so slightly warm to the touch.

Search Requests

SEARCH REQUESTS

RULES AND GUIDELINES

MAP REFERENCE/TRAVEL CONDITIONS

SUBMISSIONS

Morning 25 >>> Day 25

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