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Report from the Houston search

**Posted:** Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:46 am

Littleloki · Boot Joined: 31 Aug 2012 Posts: 34

Number 42 which is the package at the coordinates 39.59256 -86.06570 is fairly close to where I am, and I will see if I can get a hold on it. I am worried however as the location seems to be a bush of the side of the road on a major roadway. Oh well wish me luck!

**Posted:** Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:50 pm

Restlessmind

I got a response to a question from the master of the hunt in response to my picture of the card I retrieved from the Houston Public Library:

**Posted:** Thu Oct 24, 2013 7:54 am

Restlessmind

I've not heard anything back since that email. Has anyone else retrieved a card from somewhere (or even looked)?

We didn't look for one this weekend. It just didn't work out, and the weather was disturbed in Texas and across Louisiana, anyway, so our nearby (even for extremely broad definitions of "nearby") coordinates weren't available to us, mainly because my wife is of a mind that given no end date or idea what's in the package it's sort of silly to go that far afield to look for cards. I have to admit that my curiosity is piqued, but I have to agree with her a bit.

**Posted:** Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:08 am

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

I heard back from a friend in Vegas who said unless the card was under a rock, which he checked, it would have been blown away by the desert winds. I will be on the road this weekend and will try and check a couple more locations. Hopefully it will not have ended by the time I find a card.

**Posted:** Mon Oct 28, 2013 2:22 pm

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

Did someone get the card from Colorado Springs?

**Posted:** Wed Oct 30, 2013 11:56 am

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

I found a couple cards!!

**Posted:** Wed Nov 06, 2013 12:23 pm

Restlessmind

Re: I found a couple cards!!

**Posted:** Wed Nov 06, 2013 12:26 pm

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

5 card hand submitted

**Posted:** Thu Nov 14, 2013 4:10 pm

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

Well I've heard nothing from the organizers of this in response to my submission but I did hear back from someone else that located a card and submitted it. It turns out that Chamberlains is actually Chamblins in Jacksonville, FL. The other card that was submitted was the Queen of Hearts and it was the one under a table. That person did not have much time to search for the other Chamberlains card but will return later to check again.

The Chamblins clue and also the Rawr and Craigslist clues, as well as one of the gmail addresses, points this to the same group that did a game earlier this year as mentioned by Greystone and talked about here - http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36953.

I have attached a picture of the Google map I created for this with tear drops representing GPS coordinate clues and the push pins representing addresses. Green locations have been found. Yellow locations are where I had someone say they would go last week but did not hear back from them. Red are where multiple searches have turned up nothing and blue is where I have not checked at all. Here is a link to the Google map also - http://goo.gl/maps/qKYBV

All the cards that I have found at GPS coordinates have been inside empty water bottles as shown in the other picture below. If anyone wants to go look at the blue or yellow locations for the other cards maybe we can finish this thing off. I'm hoping that the organizers are awaiting more cards to be returned before ending this and not that they have abandoned it.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 24, 2013 12:43 am

GirlInFocus · Kilroy Joined: 24 Nov 2013 Posts: 2

**Posted:** Sun Nov 24, 2013 2:21 am

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

GirlInFocus - A card was found in a cafe yesterday still taped under a table surrounded by patrons so I would say there is a good chance it is still in Austin. I was at another restaurant when they opened and the card was under a table there too. I'm not sure if it is also taped under a table in Austin but that might be a good place to start.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 24, 2013 2:37 am

Restlessmind

We never went to claim it. My wife sort of lost interest in the "quest," and we're leaving on vacation soon so there won't be any side jaunts for us.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:05 am

Giskard

I too saw Rowan's retweet and will be relatively close to both the Chicago and the St. Louis location this week. Is there any additional info beyond the GPS coordinates?

**Posted:** Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:27 am

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Okay, I'm back on my normal account. If it's a card in a plastic bottle it may have been thrown away... Or washed away in our recent torrential rains.

But I was looking for an excuse to hack Ingress Portals downtown today anyway.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:21 am

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