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[richchestmat]

Once we've done all the external phone boxes we need to draw up a list of local business that we've checked.

[SPEC] I'm sure that the game just picked the most central location of London that it could but did you notice that all the phone numbers began with 7734[/SPEC]

[Malrog]

Chinese phone boxes on Gerrard St, London

[melarocco]

Flidget - Yes, the one on the right in the picture is the one we tested, so the one on the left is still a possibility!

[Flidget Jerome]

[sherpa]

[richchestmat]

I emailed a GIS tech (GIS = Geo Information Systems or something)

[sherpa]

By the way, for what it's worth I have access to some internal BT systems, but nothing that I've found has been of any use (funnily enough there isn't a link on the internal homepage with "Payphone GPS directory" )

However if anyone does find something that requires a BT person, I'm happy to try.

[richchestmat]

I've installed a mapping program and will be bringing a great A3 architect's map or two of the hot zone tonight. The Meard St Junction isn't that far off and is worth a gander.

This software has an aerial photo layer too if that's of any use? It's only high enough res to make out brightly coloured cars and not something like a phone box though.

EDIT: Hmmm this map is showing a Telephone Exchange on Gerrard St opposite Dean St.

[Malrog]

[Malrog]

[aliendial]

The recipe3 clips from last week should still be covered by the question from last week, so the answer should remain "Greene".

And if a phone suddenly appears at the location for cranky_old_man, the answer should still be be Apocalypso.

[richchestmat]

Here's my map!
I'm going to try and put it on my website too but this may not be possible until I get home.

Black stars are to be checked. White stars did not ring.
The 2 GPS points and meeting point also shown.

Print on A3

[richchestmat]

Nuts. Is this thing going to be over before we can complete the London axon?
Only 15 left to go. Worst thing is that by the time I leave work there may only be a couple left and I could be wandering about London for no reason instead of going to the gym or something.

Then again we could end up as 777.

I expect just threee of us again today unless anyone else is coming?


EDIT: 10 left with an hour to go. Quite demotivating

[Flidget Jerome]

No luck again today. . . .

And the axon is still unhottenated. . .sorta a mixed blessing, that. All this hunting is cutting in to my precious, precious napping schedule.

[META]We met another new guy today, Chris, who said that one Frankie from Bungie was in London two weeks ago and was around the Soho area. If that's true it seems like a pretty reasonable assumption for how they got the phone number, and it would probably limit the phones to the famous big red phone boxes. If you were a tourist in London searching for one single payphone to call, wouldn't that be what you picked?[/META]

I took the phone we've been missing two days in a row, but sadly whatever panicked my non-English speaking friend yesterday, it wasn't a honey-luvin' AI. Richchestmat took a public phone inside an international call centre. Chris too one down the street by the theatre where 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is showing. Tom said he was going to be there, but we didn't see him. I assume if he was there he was staking out the bank at the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road again, since that's what his intentions were yesterday.

Richchestmat and I looked around the spot on Meard Street that the coordinates gave his friend, but there's no payphones there at all.

[kiddae]

So the two red boxes outside 56 Dean Street have been officially written off now? I dragged a friend there tonight, and we got nothing. Thought we'd run into some beekeepers, but no joy there either. Sorry, I find it hard to keep up with all this.