It all started when, early this afternoon right after lunch, I took a look at the Intel map to check the situation and I informed my faction mates that I would go for some destruction and AP-gaining action.
One of the target portals would be the Stone Egg located here and pictured on the right.
While I thought that they would all be busy building a good sun tan for this summer, @ToscJones unexpectedly answered:
«If you captured the Egg, we could close a number of fields on Rosignano Marittimo for the checkpoint of 7:00 PM»
Well, why not... after all, portals in Rosignano Marittimo already were on my destruction plan.
I completed the capture of the Egg and all portals in Rosignano Marittimo at about 03:30 PM and then went visiting some friends; I had all the time to come back on time and patrol Rosignano Marittimo in the imminence of the checkpoint and be prepared to clear any blocking attempt from the Resistance.
05:30 PM, time to tell my friends "see you tonight" and head back to Rosignano Marittimo.
I have all the time to go back home first and take the external battery, just in case.
Right after picking up the battery, @ToscJones pinged me with a quick message:
«We have a problem in Gabbro: a last-minute link is blocking everything.»
Dealing with that little town is a nightmare: in there, 4G is not that stable (although manageable), but the real problem is streets being steep uphill, downhill and narrow.
Also, it was then 5:50 PM and it would take me 20 minutes to go there and 20 minutes to come back (provided traffic allowed it), thus making us very very very tight on schedule as I was the one that had to close the fields in Rosignano Marittimo.
@ToscJones' opinion was «Let's leave it and retry at next checkpoint, you'd have to drive as Hell and that's not very safe».
My opinion, instead, was «Heck, let's try».
So I jumped in my car and burnt the asphalt on the route pictured in blue here on the left.
17.9 Km (11.12 mi).
I did need some adrenalin-pumping music for the driving:
• Bon Jovi - One wild night• Nightwish - Deep blue sea
Target reached, blocking link destroyed, portal captured.
Asphalt burnt again to go back to Rosignano Marittimo.
I arrived at the first portal of the fielding sequence at 06:35 PM, I did it, I was on time.
After waiting a couple of minutes not to give away our intentions too soon, @ToscJones proceeded with the first link and I started the fielding sequence.
Multi-layer field completed at 06:50 PM, last successfully until and beyond the checkpoint.
About 320 kMU captured.
This is "Adrenalin Ingress"!
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