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This is actually a common, and easy Construct to make. Lots of people make things like Findit Faeries, and Getit Gargoyles, Constructs mean to help us find all those stupid things we can't find.
While none of these things are required, or specific to a Construct made for searching, I'll put down what I think works well for this type of Construct.
Find a home for it, lots of people (myself included) prefer having a home and form to relate the entity with. As you can tell from the name, Fairies and Gargoyles are commonly used for this job (I think Hine started the Fairy thing, not sure). Personally I use a little wizard statue.
Either find or create a name for the entity, or just sigilize the intent. "An entity to recover that which is lost" or whatever. Try to associate the sigil with the entity some how. Some people etch it onto the statue, I worked by "osmosis", I left the charged sigil under the statue for a while, until they just...went together.
Charge the sigil, sex, death, fear, or energy work, whatever works well for you.
Don't forget, to have in your intent some way to feed/thank the Construct. Hine (or whoever it was that started it, maybe it was Carroll, if it wasn't late and my last post before bed I'd check my sources) would thank the fairy by putting a coin under them. For a while I had it feed from my joy/relief of finding what was lost...that worked well, until things started getting lost more and more, and I realized (or assumed) that my wizard (named Werzit (Where's it?)) was actually hiding things, so he could feed when I found them. So I reworked him, so now he gets a more constant food supply, but feeding on my joy/relief of finding things where they should be.
But of course, you can create it in anyway you want, this was just based on my experience, and some of the experience of others I know.
Edit: And I just noticed this was originally posted a year ago, so hopefully you've already dealt with it, heh.
This post has been edited by Gesigewigus: Nov 26 2007, 12:04 AM