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Glencola Reef Mod Account ([personal profile] 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

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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V

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VII

VIII

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XII

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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.



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


obeir: (238)

Day 029 - Day 033

[personal profile] obeir 2023-10-22 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
IC DATES: Day 029 - Day 033
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: More catching up.

Day 029
K continues with the usual airfield maintenance and chores and settling into island life with Harley, including setting up more of their own little area in one of the hangars. Due to the vibriosis risk, he'll be steadily clearing out the crab carcasses and crabmeat rather than attempting to preserve any of it, womp womp. He'll cook up any freshly killed crabs, though. And he does his daily map sharing and works more on his carving of IN732Q.

Day 030
Same as above. K will also check around to see if he can find and spear any boars for food (bacon bacon bacon), while keeping an eye out for: any signs of Maddy, any items he could gift Harley, any pretty stones for IN732Q.

Day 031
Once Squalo has finished cutting wood for the fishing weir, K gets to work rebuilding it in IX.EE.11. And continues his daily map sharing.

Day 032
K and Randvi will see Senku, Squalo, and Dirk off on their rafting adventure, K assisting as needed and promising to keep the Medusa safe for Senku. He'll then continue rebuilding the weir if it wasn't finished on 31. And of course, daily map sharing.

Day 033
Another day for rebuilding the weir if it's needed, or the usual airfield maintenance and chores if it's not, and he'll start checking the weir for fish. He'll periodically check in with the raft team if the transceivers reach that far, and will ask Randvi if he and Harley can borrow her climbing equipment for whenever they go on their island date to investigate the plane wreckage(s) (which he'll still consider a date even if they invite more people along). Also the usual daily map sharing.


And I think I'll pause K here just in case anything significant happens on any of these days that could affect things going forward.
obeir: (010)

[personal profile] obeir 2023-11-03 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Goodbye delicious bacon. 😔 K will take everything except the dead jellyfish, scraps of meat, and beach plums since he can't be sure they're not the same kind that made Harley sick.