Ingress: The Magnus Builder’s Challenge – Complete!
Three days ago, I
was 600 resonator deployments short of completing the second stage of the
Magnus Builder's Challenge. Today, with the flu starting to make its presence
known, I finished it with 5 days to spare. Pretty happy with that.
Progress Report -
Day 9 to Completion
Day 9: Sunday: I didn't want to go
out today, but I'd identified two blocks of portals where I might deploy
another couple of hundred resonators. I was just trying to figure out when to
go, when my husband suggested a family trip to look at Cooma, a small town
about an hour's drive south. I took a quick look at the intel map, saw a bunch
of grey portals and figured I could I could fit a small amount of deployment
in, while we looked around - and it was worth it. We got to check out Cooma,
which has a lot more portals, and a lot more history, than I thought, and we
found a nice new area to visit. As we approached the town, there was a big
weather front moving in, but we had almost an hour of sunshine, as we had lunch
and then took a quick drive through town. With time a little tight due to
commitments in Canberra, we left with the weather closing in behind us - and a
list of things we wanted to go back and visit. I didn't do any planned
deployments on the trip, just incidental ones on the trip down, through, and
back - and I missed quite a few because I was too busy looking out the window. Day
9 Total: 2,709 (added 135)
Day 10: Monday: I woke up with a bit
of a scratchy throat, and a morning class to get to after school drop-off. The
throat got to razor-blade sore by the time I'd left, and I wondered how the day
would go - and if I'd be able to manage the walk I'd planned to top out the
medal. Picking up some soothers and tissues before class turned out to be a
good idea, and I was checking out the scanner when I noticed a big blue area on
campus that I hadn't visited yet. *That* looked interesting, so I figured I'd
check it out if it was still blue when class was done. (ANU has a pretty strong
Enlightened presence, so nothing was guaranteed.) I was lucky, or the cold
weather was keeping the other team inside, because it was still very blue when
I got out. By this time, I was starting to feel a little under the weather, and
figured the flu was going to set in over the next couple of days. With an hour
to kill before the next bus, I started on deploying resonators, and hacking in
an attempt to have enough to deploy. By the end of two hours, the other side
had come out to play, but I'd completed pretty much everything I could complete
by the time it was to head for the bus stop. Two hours was the outer limit of
the time I could allow for a walk, but the unexpected blue patch on campus had
meant I'd saved about a half hour of travel. Even though it hurt to stop when I
was so close to finishing, I really did have to get home and back to work. Day
10 Total: 3,096 - so close and yet so far, (added 387)
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