Barney enjoyed a fabulous weekend in the wonderful city of Porto for the Cryptic Memories anomaly. While the Enlightened battled hard, the Resistance ultimately prevailed, but what a brilliant place to visit. Agents were treated to great vistas, luscious sunsets over the city and a chance to meet up with friends old and new.
Barney found what looked like a huge cuboid shard. But, boy was it hilly. This meant lots of breaks for ice cream and gorgeous Pasteis de Belem (Portuguese egg tarts).
Why don’t you join Barney at the Buried Memories anomaly in Budapest on 15th June? Budapest is another stupendous city that promises great memories and fun. Watch out for the enlightened.rocks sign up.
In the meantime, don’t forget that London mission day is coming up on 13th April 🌟 INFO TG Join HERE 🌟 XF CHAT TG HERE
Agents, get your dog and bone ready to visit London as they welcome you to join their FIRST EVER Mission Day!😀
⏰Saturday 13th April 2024 Tell your old china and bring them along too!
No but seriously, why not stay for the weekend to get the most of your trip with Second Sunday the following day on 14th! ✨
🌉 London is an iconic city to visit and with Mission Day routes based mainly in Central Zone 1 then you’ll be treated to a tour of the stunning landmarks, gorgeous parks and embrace the vibrant culture that the city offers!
What happens when a Connected cell hits town? You go from an orderly cell where people go about their Ingress business without too much fuss to one where people are overnighting at remote portals, hitting trig points at 3:59 am and scampering about town trying to get layers up over Cardiff. In other words… having a ball of a time!
The septicycle started quietly mid-week with Enlightened leading Resistance. Over a few days, Resistance chipped away at the Enlightened lead while agents threw local fields. As the weekend approached, the first major skirmishes began as the Bristol channel was cleared to enable some links to be thrown from across Somerset and Wiltshire to the Smalls Lighthouse. Traditional Ingress obstacles of squelchy muddy tracks, cows, creepy parks and scary information signs were encountered.
After a night of protecting the links to the Smalls, Saturday morning dawned. An intrepid agent had overnighted near a lighthouse to make the first fields of the day. Those were swiftly followed by a multi-layered fiesta of fields from the town of Ilfracombe. Between a hill (it doesn’t look that bad on the intel map…) and a portal at a chocolate shop (I hope they don’t get stuck there), the field team had meticulously thrown the fields for the 1pm checkpoint and a hefty bump in the Enlightened scores. 23+ layers and 1.5M MU, with about 60% counting towards the J-07 score. Fish MU can certainly add up!
Res stepped up to the mark and took the fields down. The first of a few times this septicycle!
Resistance then began to work their own field plans and put up a multi layer from Caerphilly and then Merthyr Tydfil. The bulk of the fields missed the initial checkpoint, but were threatening to score overnight. Step up two dedicated agents who drove through the night to get to Blorenge trig point for the 4 am checkpoint and flip down the fields a minute before they would have scored. Not content with that, they cleared Merthyr, before heading for their beds on Sunday morning…
The Resistance were not to be cowed, and stepped back up and rethrew the Merthyr fields on Sunday afternoon while blocking the Bristol channel fields being rethrown. This time, they were not to be denied and the fields hit checkpoint, causing the biggest spike in the septicycle. But they didn’t last, as yet another Enlightened agent stepped up to get the fields down, coordinating the timing so that blockers could be thrown.
The North of the cell was not ignored, with agents traveling across the border to ensure there were more green fields adding to the total.
The Bristol channel fields were not to be denied, and these were thrown again, taken down, and rethrown. Eventually, a Resistance agent visited Ilfracombe and took down the spine of the fields, only leaving the lighthouse coastal portal fields standing.
In a final push, the team determined to suppress Resistance fields and finish with a flourish by fielding Cardiff and tipping the score one more point in our favour. Much frantic key farming, machina killing, more key farming, key swapping and miles were travelled to throw up a gorgeous layered field over Cardiff in the early hours of the morning, 11 layers and 547,163 MU.
Nervously the team watched the final checkpoints come and go, waiting for the fightback from the Resistance that didn’t quite materialise. Final result – Enlightened won the septicycle and took 10.5 of the 15 available points, but more importantly had some great fun and will have some stories to tell down the years.
Many agents were involved, all contributing to the success. Some of the agents were;
Anyone for a quick round of punting some shards around Bradford on a school night? Well, this group of Enlightened agents thought it might be fun, and looking at those happy smiling faces, they seem to have had a good time!
Enlightened stormed to an 8-2 victory, to bring home some valuable points towards the Cryptic Memories series.
Also, watch out for the sitrep on the J07 battles for connected cells which finished earlier in the week.
If you didn’t make it, or even if you did, and are wondering where to get your next big fix of Ingress, head over to Mission Day in Aberdeen (https://t.me/+wxhc1QLTxPM5N2Y8) on 9th March, or pencil in 13th April for London. If anomalies are more your thing, maybe try Porto on 16th March (https://enlightened.rocks/anomaly/Q1Porto). Guess who else will be making an appearance…
Having wanted to put a blanket over Enfield for a year, a group of intrepid agents formed a plan to use a baseline from Tolmers Scout Camp to Copped Hall, both relatively hard to reach portals.
Keys were fracked, and clearing took place over several days, with guide links put in place to fend off the ever present Machina. Enfield itself needed some special attention.
Finally, the time to throw arrived! AsherTrolls threw 40 fields, 12 layers and 1,245,981 MU and gained his onyx illuminator along the way. Whilst walking down the spine, he waded through the Pymmes Brook to save 5 minutes; this was quickly regretted!
The team making the magic happen: 1Turncoat2 AsherTrolls BeanTrolls KevinTrolls KRAVMAD nyecamden PizzaTrolls SomethingFunky Trikkitt WooperBoi
This wonderful field stayed up for 16 checkpoints, helping the Enlightened to win 7 of these. And if you look now, you’ll see some of it’s up again!
Having got his feet wet at the Brighton anomaly, Barney has been bitten once more by the anomaly bug, and hitched a lift to the Athens Echo Anomaly. He enjoyed a glorious Enlightened victory as well as meeting new friends, savouring some fabulous food and visiting a few of the wonderful sights that Greece has to offer.
He even made the Mission Day photo! Where’s Barney?
Barney also visited the Oracle at Delphi to see if she could enlighten him as to how to pick which anomaly to go to next. There are just so many wonderful places to choose from!
Join the Enlightened (and maybe Barney) at one, or more (!), of the upcoming European anomalies:
Agents Aicarianos, BeanTrolls, KevinTrolls, PintsAndPasta, PizzaTrolls, TaterTrolls, TerryTrolls, ThomasTrolls, SahanaTrolls, ShiftieCollie and WispTrolls enlightened the whole South London with a wonderful field worth more than 2 million MU. ThomasTrolls and TaterTrolls also gained their Onyx Illiminator badge in the process. Congratulations!
SE London was too small for them. After several months of a permafield over 7 boroughs, as a farewell to a fellow agent they decided to go bigger.
Plans were quickly drawn, then on the night of Thursday 27th April, despite the heavy rain, off they went!
BeanTrolls picked the short straw and paddled over by kayak to one of the anchors, while the rest of the team was clearing blocking links.
Everything went according to plan. Resistance attempts to block were quickly dealt with and the team gathered at the South anchor.
But wait… everyone can do a BAF – here comes the Battle Beacon! TaterTrolls and ThomasTrolls took turns to earn their badges.
The field occupied airspace over 14 London Boroughs, spanning from Richmond to Newham to Bromley.
The initial throw of the field lasted 86 hours, unfortunately it was taken down at its most appealing anchor. During this time, two agents’ birthdays were celebrated along with a bank holiday!
Within 24 hours of being taken down, the field was reinstated thanks to the solo efforts of WispTrolls, who cycled “like a madman” around London clearing blockers before maintaining ENL dominance over South London airspace.
The team is back at the planning table at their favourite pub devising plans to expand, although they are running out of London Boroughs!
Brighton was brilliant. The city was fabulous, the weather was glorious and the ice creams were delicious. It was great to meet friends old and new from near and far. And the cake was not a lie.
We battled the scanner almost as much as the Resistance, and while we didn’t win the site, our efforts ensured the Enlightened took a mighty lead into the final day of the Echo series.
See you all in Athens, Ueda and Winnipeg for the conclusion!
Enlightened agents stormed the first event of the anomaly weekend by taking GORUCK Stealth 7-0. Whether it was trivia, Ingress glyph knowledge or holding their weighty backpacks aloft, they gave it their all.
Congratulations to agents: Bihotz Djnoddi Enemywar Hulk32 Newportplace Undersill
Barney is joining the Enlightened on the road to the Echo Brighton anomaly this weekend. It’s not too late to join him for some of the best fun you can have in Ingress!
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