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

[desperate_times_right]

Success! Chloe is going to pull the rope up after her but leave it anchored in case they need to climb down later to get food or if Lalo shows up.

ETA: they'll spend the rest of the day block looking for a sheltered room where they can set up camp.

[glencolans]

Day 026
Starting Square: VI.K.13
Ending Square: VI.J.13
Duration: 4 hours
General Search Results:

• MRE - shredded barbecue beef, black beans, spicy cheese spread, tortillas, oatmeal cookie, orange juice powder, instant coffee, powdered creamer, packet of artificial sweetener, gum, moist towelette, salt packet, tissues
• six lentil pods
• chunk of marble
• seven handfuls of wood sorrel

The section of the complex Chloe and Taissa climb into is mostly in ruins - great for looting purposes, but not so great for finding shelter. They're eventually able to pick their way through the rubble west, where they find what seems like an endless series of narrow, bland hallways and conference rooms behind solid doors. Most of them are locked, but a lot of them are also intact, and it doesn't take them too long to find a decent place to hide out in apparent safety and isolation.

[desperate_times_right]

Excellent! Chloe will use her stolen bedsheet and some trinkets to make an alarm for the door and collapse somewhere.

Couple of questions: what kind of locks do the conference room doors have? How big is the marble chunk?

[glencolans]

The conference rooms have your standard deadbolt locks on them - all except for one, which is guarded via electronic keypad. Judging by the lack of other doors along the wall that this room is behind, it's more like a conference hall rather than a conference room.

The marble chunk is roughly fist-sized.

[desperate_times_right]

She's not messing with it today (after all that her arms are tired) but does the keypad have power? Would it be possible to pick the other locks with either her pins or the lockpick Taissa found?

[glencolans]

The keypad does appear to have power, since it has a faint backlight on the input screen at the top. It should theoretically be possible to pick the deadbolts with the pins Chloe found, or the dedicated lockpick Taissa found!

[salamanca]

A few quick question since Lalo is up there now!

What numbers/letters does the keypad have on it? Is it just 0-9, or are there letters?
If there are letters, what alphabet do they use? Latin alphabet or something else?
Does it look like there's a place to swipe a keycard or do you have to use the pad?
How many characters does the password ask for/accept?

Also, does anywhere else in the building/ruins have power or just the keypad? Or is that something they'll just have to find out via searching/experimenting? 👀

[glencolans]

The keypad has numbers (0 - 9) and letters, which are in the Latin alphabet. There is a spot for a keycard and it accepts keypad entries. Attempts at manually inputting a password show that it gives a negative beep-beep after six characters are entered.

Most of the ruins are without power, leaving them very quiet and dark. The hallways in square VI.J.13, however, near where the room with the keypad is, are lit with a few dim overhead emergency lights, which are just enough to keep characters from running into things and not much else.

[salamanca]

Sweet!

A few more q's - what is the door made of? Metal vs wood vs something else? If you knock on it, what does it sound like? What does it feel like when you touch it? Is it flimsy, a normal door, or does it seem like it might be reinforced with something?