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[chappy]

I got the 8:37 and the 10:23, I'll update whith phone locations later. DC Reference page text updated.

edit - my chart has been updated too as of midafternoon. -- AD

[monkeymule2]

Arg! I was at the 12:41 and 1:21, but, it turned out the cell phone clock I was using was 20 slow, so I guess I missed both of them.

[Kakashi117]

Ok aliendial, I've tried to follow, but which ones have NOT been activated yet? Even if someone is already goidg to them i woudl liek to be there as well. Chappy's and your sheets seem different.

[aliendial]

Well, they're pretty much done for today (all but a few of the local ones are before 2PM), but you can see from my list or chappy's which ones are still not hot. Kaziel didn't make it to a few he hoped to try today, so ignore those annotations about his plans until we hear from him.

PS the only material difference between our 2 lists is that chappy hasn't logged (yet) the Ballston metro axon going hot.

[aliendial]

[chappy]

Way to go Kaziel! Sorry to hear about your cell phone monkeymule, I hope you had a nice day anyway (the heat and humidity was finally bearable today).

I've updated the DC Reference Page. I moved the hot axons to the bottom, but I think I need to clean up the HTML a bit. Suggestions welcome . Kakashi117 (and monkeymule and everyone else), the axons at the top of the page haven't been connected yet. You may notice that mousing over the graphics displays coordinates in your browser's status bar (if you have it enabled via "View -> Status bar"). If anyone knows where phone icons should be placed, it'd be helpful to include the those numbers. Kaziel, I'd love to hear from you about phone locations if you have the time.

It looks like the still-locked .wav files don't depend on DC phones, but I'll try to make it to nearby phones when I can.

[aliendial]

Chappy, try to use more separation between the axons. When the text runs together it gets pretty confusing. Also, if you could widen the text column, that might help readibility too. On my laptop screen I have a couple inches to the right of the map that's just blank space.

The Connecticut & K axon is a NEW one (not old).

The 6:23 axon is an old one; it's on the old list, we just don't know who got it. Or where it is, since kaziel tried and failed to find it today.

7:43 should probably mention that the next place to look may be inside the Studio Theater,as we have tried the phone on the SW corner. edit - kaziel later found one on P St. on the other side of 14th, not far away. Another possible.

10:15 you have a couple of phones showing from last time - they should probably not be considered potentials for this axon since the coordinates have been changed.

Never heard back from EdifyYo. That may be a bust, but leave his name for the moment. Maybe he'll try again.

[Atrophied]

[chip_4321]

http://www.theblackforge.net/hivekuts-coords.html

Had some near misses... The very north end of the Eastern Shore, Newark, Delaware. That's just about as far as DC for me... I was hoping for something on the south end of DE or MD/VA line...

[Kaziel]

Thanks for your concern AD, but reports of my injury and/or death are greatly exaggerated.

Now for my normal extensive report.

First off I included edited pics of almost every location that I went to, if the given location is off from where the phone is. The yellow circles are the location of the phones. If I didn't include a edited pic, then the star or the red crossharis were on the mark.

As stated in my earlier post, I woke up at 7:30 (guuh @_@) and was out of the house by 7:50~ and I rode down to mall, about an hour's ride by bike from my Apartment up in Tenley Town (north of Georgetown for those who don't know)

Arriving at the Museum of Natural History I easily found a pair of payphones across the street. I had about 20 minutes to kill, so first I checked to make sure they were both working, which they were, and then I looked around the area to make sure there weren't any more phones in the area. As the time came, I got jittery, butterflies in the stomach and all. The time came and went, as far as my watch said, so I started walking away to my bike, when the phone rang. I scrambled back to it. I'm sure I looked like some sort of hyperactive monkey or something, but I made it in time, and was asked what her real name was, which I answered Melissa, then heard the .wav file and went on my way. I realized my watch was a few minutes fast and accounted for it.
Note: It was the phone facing east.

[aliendial]

Thanks for your kind words, Kaziel. Aw shucks. But you were so ragged out last week and having to buy expensive bottle of water to stay on the path, I wanted to make sure you did not suffer this week. You really have gone over the top in your attempts to clear axons, so we all owe you a huge debt of gratitude.

You may be the first person to get four axons all by your onlies in one day, and therefore the only one to fully test this theory. There was one guy in SF that did six or more in one day, but he had someone along for part of the day so he may not have hit this hypothetical barrier.

And of course it doesn't explain why the Operator didn't accept Oliver's answers last weekend since he had only done one axon and that was several days earlier. Others also reported similar problems last week.

Another possibility - all spec of course - is that a certain percentage will just fail. Perhaps on purpose, perhaps randomly, who knows, but this would ensure continuing open axons to give people something to do.

Happily, the ones you did get were all DC needed to contribute to the sound-clip-opening goals of this "puzzle", so we are golden.

The rest are just easter eggs for people who want to try to get down to the Mall - and now you guys have exact locations, so feel free to clear the rest of the "found" axons over the weekend!

But if there's a friday update, somebody else is in charge.

[Kaziel]

[pa28pilot]

More NoVa coverage

[Kakashi117]

Hey everyone, Oliver here. Waking up at 1:15 after a late night (around 5 in the morning I finally went to sleep), I checked my messages to see if aliendial told me which ones noone was going after at the moment. I saw the Washinton Harbour one at 1:49 EDT, and realized I had 20 minutes to shower, get dressed, and bike from the Cathedral. I had 10 minutes left as I started biking out the door.

Biking hard, I got there, thinking I only had a few minutes left. But I had plenty of time (7 mins)...I had made the journey in 3 or 4 minutes, a record for me. I was there in time and answered the phone correctly...about to crack up though as there were many people staring at me...no wonder since I had been leaning on the wall for 5 mins looking around and all of a sudden answered a ringing payphone haha. Anyways, that axon is hot, and I'm gonna try for the 10:35 and 11:01 axons tomorrow. I suggest others try as well though, as I'm not sure if I can make it since I need to get a blazer for my school which starts Tuesday.

Anyways, one more down...hundreds to go

[chappy]

Chappy here in the chicago airport via blackberry. Thanks for the info kaz and ad, I'll fix the ref page in flight, but I'll need to find a net cxn in CA b4 I can upload. Have a fun holiday, all.

-chappy