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

Thank you, gods of timeline integrity. I'm gonna say he lost his lil supply of water during this, since it seems unlikely to survive a mad dash through the jungle.

Since it's dark/getting dark, does the drone have any lights?

Rust will cautiously move back toward the beach (doing his best to retrace his steps), but take cover and wait...probably another hour if he hears a drone. He'll do a quick survey of the beach to see if the tide brought anything in (particularly anything edible) but try to limit his exposure. (He'll also look for any big, obvious signs of Martin/a struggle, but won't dedicate time to trying to track him unless he sees something first.)

Then he'll retreat to the beginnings of the jungle (hopefully that makes sense...where it's not as thick but isn't the beach) and thoroughly search for sticks/vines/grass or a place he could turn into a quick-and-dirty shelter. (Shelter would take priority over a fire if he doesn't have time for both.)

The drone does have some small lights, but they aren't bright enough to, say, give it visibility on extra tiles, or for Rust to pick it out in the dark more than a kilometer away.

Day 001
Hour 7: III.R.26 -> III.T.24 (cloth scrap)

The tide has brought in some new debris to sift through, but no signs of Martin, or in fact any other signs of recent human life aside from his little stacks of stones.

Hour 8: III.T.24 -> III.R.26 (sharpened stick)

There are plenty of quick-and-dirty-style materials available in the thicker jungle for Rust to use to make a crude shelter. The trees are also pretty sturdy, too - he could hypothetically climb into the lower branches of one and be secure enough to doze, if he doesn't toss and turn a bunch in his sleep.

Once Rust has returned to the jungle and established a camp, Night 001 has started. There's nothing stopping him from staying up late to make a fire, though.

IC DATES: Night 1 - > Morning 2
STARTING SQUARE: III.R.26
ENDING SQUARE: III.R.26
DETAILS: Rust has insomnia, so welcome to hell! He won't sleep for more than a couple hours at a time (if that), but he'll pretty much stay in place until morning.

He'll build a fire (using his lighter and whatever brush he can collect) close to the beach, then retreat to the jungle and wait for an hour to see if it attracts any drones.

Assuming nothing calamitous happens, he'll enjoy being warm, dry off any of his stuff that might be damp, and scope out the stars. He's very knowledgeable about constellations and will try to figure out what hemisphere the island's in and nail down the cardinal directions. Once he's done that he'll sketch them in the sand with his new friend pointy stick.

He'll keep the fire going for three hours, then spend the rest of the night up a tree. He'll also be checking in on the walkie, trying to get ahold of Martin, every couple hours.

Rust's fire thankfully (unless he was hoping to attract a drone) doesn't seem to grab any attention, mechanical or otherwise. It isn't until Hour 6 (around 1AM) that Rust hears the sound of one passing him by, again to the north, but it's too dark for him to see where it is or determine what direction it's headed in before the humming fades.

The sky is incredibly clear here at night, making star-mapping easy. Rust can determine that they must be somewhere equatorial based on the shared set of northern and southern hemisphere constellations.

Search Requests

SEARCH REQUESTS

RULES AND GUIDELINES

MAP REFERENCE/TRAVEL CONDITIONS

SUBMISSIONS

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