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: Day 027 - Day 030
STARTING SQUARE: VI.EE.31
ENDING SQUARE: mostly likely IX.T.9
DETAILS:

After this, they're home! Yay!
As they get the hell out of the way, is there anything else to note about the crabs? There is NO WAY that Senku wouldn't be massively interested in whatever this is.
General search as they go, esp looking for iron ore if there's any lying about.

Day 28:
Testing this transceiver upgrade. What does it do?

Also seeing if the power cord he found can plug in anywhere in the hangars and get a charge. He's got some random electronics around to do this with, I can go dig in the inventory for something specific if needed.

Day 29:
Testing the SD card from this request. What happen?

Day 30:
Trying the power cord on this outlet specifically.

Further details TBD based on what those attachments do; if something happens that means we have to hold off on the Day 30 one for now that's fine.

General search things he'll be looking for, can venture back to the hotel or around the bungalows:
Swimming goggles or snorkel type mask
A diamond ring/necklace/earring/whatever that has a diamond in it (it's a surprise tool that will help us later!)
First aid supplies that are still useable
Parts of the cell phone, which is an IC thing but OOCly I think they might have all been found

Morning 027 ➜ Night 030
Starting Square: VI.EE.31
Ending Square: IX.T.9
Duration: 96 hours
General Search Results:

a hardwood log
dead fish (fresh) - river sunfish
makeshift bracelet - bits of multicolored glass threaded together with twine
2' rusted barbed wire
sharp piece of metal
chunk of insulation foam
two bundles of tangled wires
a micro SD card - doesn't look like it would fit the slot on the transceivers
intact airplane window
four coconuts
protein bar
swimwear
safety goggles
a diamond stud earring
medium blue crab
tangled fishing line

Morning 028 - Senku does note that, although generally disorganized, the crabs are all orienting themselves to travel southeast once they get their bearings.

Day 028 - Installing this particular upgrade into the USB-type port on his transceiver will make the module's square screen light up, displaying the current cardinal direction the transceiver is pointed in (15° NE, for example). The two-prong power cord doesn't fit anything in the hangars; the few outlets that Senku finds there are all those strange single-prong ones.

Day 029 - The SD card plugs easily into his transceiver, and immediately afterwards he'll notice several things:

All conversations visible now have a checkbox next to them, all un-selected. Checking them will make them no longer disappear from the list after 24 hours, or ever. Senku can have ten conversations selected this way at any given time. Removing the module does not make these conversations go away, either, although he won't have the option to check or uncheck them unless he installs the module again.
As Senku keeps the module installed, he'll start to notice that conversations that should be disappearing after the 24-hour cutoff aren't. Conversations now remain on his list for 72 hours (three days) instead. This is an additive change, not a retroactive one; plugging in the module does not make conversations from three days ago suddenly show up, it just makes his current conversations stick around longer.

Day 030 - The power cord does not work on the recessed outlet found in the laboratory bungalow; it's a two-prong cord and this is a single-prong outlet.

Senku would have remembered the plug thing, I'm just dumb and can't read so NIX THAT. As for the rest, he's taking the bracelet, sharp metal (carefully!), foam, tangled wires, micro SD card, goggles, earring, protein bar. He also takes the airplane window back to the base.

What kind of swimwear is it?

Does this Micro SD card look pretty much the same size/shape as the last one he found?

The swimwear is a set of loose, but comfortable and relatively high-quality trunks. They're mostly red with some faded white stripes.

This particular micro SD card is actually something we would consider "Earth-standard;" the other one he found (the one that he was able to plug into his transceiver) had a different number of pins and was even smaller than this one. Senku can tell that his transceiver would not accept this card, even with the same sort of adapter he used before.

Search Requests

SEARCH REQUESTS

RULES AND GUIDELINES

MAP REFERENCE/TRAVEL CONDITIONS

SUBMISSIONS

Day 27 - 30

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