Glencola Reef Mod Account (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
glencolans) wrote2023-04-05 03:28 pm
glencolans) wrote2023-04-05 03:28 pm
Search Requests
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
(32 total)
3 square visibility
4 squares/hour
(32 total)
5 square visibility
(32 total)
5 square visibility
4 squares/hour
(32 total)
1 square visibility
(32 total)
1 square visibility
2 squares/hour
(16 total)
3 square visibility
(16 total)
3 square visibility
2 squares/hour
(16 total)
5 square visibility
(16 total)
5 square visibility
2 squares/hour
(16 total)
1 square visibility
(16 total)
1 square visibility
2 squares/hour
(16 total)
1 square visibility
(16 total)
1 square visibility
2 squares/hour
(16 total)
1 square visibility
(16 total)
1 square visibility
1 square/hour
(8 total)
0 square visibility
(8 total)
0 square visibility
2 squares/hour
(16 total)
2 square visibility
(16 total)
2 square visibility
2 squares/hour
(16 total)
3 square visibility
(16 total)
3 square visibility
1 square/hour
(8 total)
1 square visibility
(8 total)
1 square visibility
1 square/hour
(8 total)
5 square visibility
(8 total)
5 square visibility
1 square/hour
(8 total)
7 square visibility
(8 total)
7 square visibility
1 square/hour
(8 total)
3 square visibility
(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
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.
Day 23
STARTING SQUARE: VII.O.9
ENDING SQUARE: Following the river away from the cabin
DETAILS: GUESS WHO’S NOT BEING HELD HOSTAGE ANYMORE!!
After an invigorating (exhausting) day of texting with psychopaths and torturing…different psychopaths…Rust will munch on some elephant jerky and boil enough water to fill all containers (and wash his hands 😬). Then, leaving Lalo bound hand and foot and temporarily gagged, he’ll climb a tree and doze for a couple hours.
He’ll spend the remainder of the night keeping watch in the tree—twitchy and running on adrenaline, but still observant.
As soon as it’s light out, he’ll march Lalo along the river, heading away from the cabin. He’ll stop around noon or when they make it to the spot where the river forks, whichever comes first. At that point he’ll thoroughly search adjacent non-water squares and assess whether this is a good spot to leave Lalo
for dead.ALSO he'll be observing the river as he goes—nothing elaborate but how wide it is, how swift the current looks, and whether there's any notable animal activity.
no subject
Starting Square: VII.O.9
Ending Square: VII.S.7
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Results:
Rust's watch through the rest of the night isn't uneventful; he keeps catching glimpses of movement out of the corner of his eye, and the startled cries of animals somewhere off in the distance, to the north. But nothing comes to visit directly while they wait or during the next morning's travel.
They reach the fork in the river and Rust does his thorough patrol around it just before the end of Morning 024, putting them in square VII.S.7. The other branch of the river that joins it here nearly doubles its output; it looks a lot safer to cross back the way they came rather than here or downriver. Otherwise, everything looks safe and quiet enough.
no subject
How fresh are the discarded tendons? Any signs of their being left out deliberately (are they organized in any way)? Are they...animal (as opposed to human) tendons ahahahaahahahah please.
WHAT'S UP WITH THESE CARVINGS? Are they words, pictures, designs? Do they look like they were made with a knife? Any bite or claw marks? How far from where Rust camped for the night does he find the bone, and does it look like it was left out on purpose?
Does the broken arrow match other arrows Rust and Lalo have found (same wood, same feathers for the fletching)? Any blood on it?
OOPS ALSO: would Rust have been able to pick out any distinctive animal sounds in the night (birds, deer, predators?).
no subject
The carvings on the bone look like a bunch of random, but nevertheless roughly aligned scratches. They're a bit too deliberate to be claw or tooth marks. Rust finds it while he's packing up the previous night's camp, conspicuously left out next to the foot of a nearby tree, alarmingly close to where he was keeping watch.
The arrow roughly matches the ones he and Lalo have encountered before, although the fletching is from a different type of feather (striking blue and black). No blood is visible on it.
Most of the animal calls Rust hears in the night are the bleats of ungulates - deer or antelope, probably, maybe an...elk? Hard to say for sure, they're pretty far away.
no subject
How many scratches are there? Kind of a silly question, but is there any way to attempt to enter them into the walkie (via various punctuation marks or something similar)?
no subject
no subject
no subject
EDIT: he's p badly injured though so it's probably not going to be a perfect representation or 100% accurate, but probably it's like 80-90% accurate, like enough to get a fairly good sense of what it looks like but not COMPLETELY perfect
no subject
Rust will then try sending it from one walkie to the other to see if anything translates.
no subject
no subject
no subject
With an exhausted, disbelieving groan that borders on sickened, Lalo puts a hand over his face and either just... passes out into the grass, or tries to pass out and is stopped by Rust.
no subject
If Rust wanted to send the ASCII to a third party, would he have to write it out all over again, or would he be able to essentially forward it?
no subject
no subject
no subject