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

[glencolans]

Morning 027 ➜ Day 027
Starting Square: VI.J.13
Ending Square: VI.L.14
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Results:

• crawfish
• large worm
• badge clip
• two olives
• a handful of meadow sage
• chewed bone
• two leaves of agave

Martin and Jet have to walk a long way down the river before they can find a safe place to cross it - all the way to VI.U.17 (interestingly, the stand and log that they crossed in VI.S.18 are no longer there). This at least gives them plenty of time to experiment with the transceivers. As soon as Jet walks an appreciable distance away from his transceiver while Martin carries it, the screeching noise dies down in intensity, and stops completely when it's roughly five feet away from him. It also flares up on its own on eight separate occasions while Martin has it on him.

It's the end of Day 027 by the time they make it back to the fork in the river below in square VI.L.14, now with the benefit of being on top of the mountain ridge. However, it's now pretty clear that this is not a good way to reach the office complex nearby; the river rapids have cut a trench through the mountain ridge, leaving the edge of it that the buildings are on a veritable island about fifty feet away. It does look like there used to be some kind of bridge that spanned the distance up here, but all that remains now is a pair of metal support plinths and scraps of chain attached to them.

[lonelynotforsaken]

Taking:
- Badge clip
- Two olives
- Two leaves of agave

Notes:
They will be on the lookout for any large logs or other things that could be used to bridge the river while they're walking. They won't move anything, but make note of it for improving access in the future.

Questions:
1. Do the flare-ups occur at any sort of regular intervals?
2. Are the flare-ups just screeching?
3. If they pause to try it underwater again after they cross the river (with Jet standing away), will there be any effect?
4. When it's not flaring up or when it is, is there any sort of change on the transceiver, itself? Any tabs or messages that pop up?
5. About how far down is the river?
6. From their vantage point atop the gorge, are there any notable signs of life/encampment in the jungle below? Martin is a LITTLE concerned about that camp disappearing.

[glencolans]

There are plenty of big hardwood trees around here, especially in the valley along the banks of the river. Finding appropriate lumber for the job is not the difficult part; getting it up the side of the mountain, on the other hand, is.

Other Answers:

1. The flare-ups are irregular; some happen close together, some an hour or two apart.
2. Just more screeching, yes.
3. Similar effect to when this was tried by the beach: There's loud screeching when Jet holds the transceiver underwater, and less or no screeching when Martin holds it instead and Jet goes away.
4. No messages or other notifications when the attachment screeches at them, no.
5. Roughly a kilometer.
6. They don't see any signs of recent habitation (that doesn't necessarily mean there aren't any, though).

[lonelynotforsaken]

Hmm! Okay. They'll put a bookmark in getting across the gorge and continue their trek to the north. They're aiming to bridge the other branch of the river before heading back west toward the shoreline/jungle edge. Gonna stop once it starts getting dark and make camp. Martin and Jet will take turns keeping a lookout in the night as they finish off the haul from a few days ago.

[glencolans]

It's the start of Night 027 once they reach the cliff overlooking the river; would they camp out there, then continue north/northwest through Morning 028?

[lonelynotforsaken]

They'll camp for the night. Best not to try to descend the ridge in the dark.

[salamanca]

Quick question! Would Lalo have seen the smoke from their campfire Night 27 or was he still too far away?

[glencolans]

As he'd be approaching the ridge during the night, and stopping in VI.X.20 to eventually rest, he would unfortunately be too far away to spot the campfire.

[salamanca]

Darn! Or maybe that's a good thing, considering the paranoia it would induce.