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[Flidget Jerome]

I'm not going to be on the hunt tonight. Meat world things are taking priority and I won't be able to get back out in the field until Sunday. . by which time I really hope someone else has found it.

No response from Dana to my email, which isn't surprising. Still, hopefully it got through, so someone may want to check the 56 Dean Street phones on the veeeery small chance that the PMs got the number wrong and have now been corrected. The northern most box outside St Anne's church is still unchecked as well, and about as decent a candidate we have as any.

Good luck!

[Tar Ecthelion]

[detayl]

Actually I think Thoth is trying to get the Minnesota axon. As of yet I haven't seen or heard of anyone trying to get the Burlington one.

[Tar Ecthelion]

[Arana]

[Thoth]

I've been back to campus a couple of times since the last time I tried for c.o.m., just trying to find other candidates for the phone. I'm pretty sure that I've gone through more university halls than most students

I'm pretty confident that we can rule out anything north-west, west, south west, and south of the MQ / Acme location for the coords. For anybody who might know the area - or who is more industrious than I, and has found a decent map online - I have taken the MQ / Acme result, and gone through every building south of the coord, and everything in a clockwise arc all the way to the Northrop area of campus at the Church St. garage.

There was one phone that could take incoming calls near where the MC / Acme result had pointed, just inside the Church St. entrance for the Mayo Building. I waited there from 10 minutes to, to 10 minutes past the time when the call was supposed to come, but got nothing. There was a phone that was pretty much bang-on where the coords pointed, but it didn't take calls.

Although I didn't get the recent drink_the_beer axons (I'm pretty sure I scouted them, but was unable to get away from work to answer the phone after that), I'm confident that one was in the Northrop area (the coords pointed to the center of that area), and the other was probably in the Alumni Center.

Presuming that the coords for the 2 d.t.b. axons gives us a kind of 'invisible fence' to tell us where c.o.m. *isn't*, the search area can be narrowed down to about 12 campus buildings and 1 hotel lobby, plus about 20 storefronts along Washinton Avenue.

The next chance I'll have for scouting is going to be Saturday night, and if I cut it close for work on Sunday I can try for the phone then. Again, one of the biggest problems I'm facing is that if I find a couple of candidates, I can only watch one of them. All of my friends just give me strange looks when I ask them if they want to help me answer a phone

[aliendial]

Right - the SP put the recipe3 clips and locations there, so she should be in a position to change them. I know they UK team members have posted a lot of info here; have they sent pertinent info to SP? "Can't find phone" "try this one instead" "be sure to dial 011 first..." stuff like that?

Other options - sending updated phone information to the payphone website(s) that may have been a source for the axon. That may work for cranky_old_man but I hesitate to tell someone to road trip back there just to get accurate information about phone numbers to send to the sites.

And probably can't offer that for Vermont because, to our knowledge, nobody has even been able attempt to find that axon and thus can't correct the payphone info.

[Flidget Jerome]

[richchestmat]

I heard that the London axon was chosen in person. That's rumour though but does make sense as there aren't any uk payphone directories that I can find.

[Flidget Jerome]

[zerophotonzero]

MN Axon

[Astald]

I think there may be new locations for these axons tomorrow. Hopefully, one will take a new spot in the UK, one will move to Canada, and the last into my neck of the woods. Then (almost) everyone will be happy!

[Aspmaster]

[bcriswell]

I have posted what I believe is a more accurate map for the London Axon. I really hope the PMs do not change it. If no one gets it tonight, I will see about coming on Saturday (I might be able to borrow a GPS unit).

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6643

[aliendial]

chaotic_mind made a big deal about South Dakota. I have PM'd him that the cranky_old_man may now be near him. Fingers crossed!

And Aspmaster - there are no younger kids in the South Dakota branch of your wife's family that you could corrupt/bribe into doing this for you? Any younger ones are likely to have heard about the game on TechTV if nothing else, and might be thrilled to hear it's near them (I speak from experience with my godson [and yes his parents thought we were nuts as we started discussing the game]).

PS apparently this is near Mount Rushmore, if there's anyone out there who needs to cross this national monument off their to-do list.