A Full Day of Ingress

Laura ( NavyMom59 ) and I managed to get out of the house and on the road about 10:00 once I finally decided on what we should do.  We were going to be over Fatiallians and bookwyrm1216's house at 18:00 for a camp on using IITC. Also, we planned to go visit St Ann's about 15:00.  So I thought we could complete a mission and visit Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden which required a hacking of 14 portals. 

And as you might imagine it was a great visit even in mid February.

Of course the best part was the green house where the orchids could be sheltered from typical mid-February weather.  This place is on the West side of Lake Wylie, and we're not over there very often except to buy gasoline.  (The difference in NC and SC taxes make it worth the trip)

So we completed the mission, threw up a few Control Fields for AP, and I figured we had the time to squeeze in one more mission near the Rivergate shopping area.  I expected it to be easy as I thought all the portals could be hacked from the car.  Well, all but one as it turned out, and that wasn't a bad walk.

In fact, as we walked back I was stopped by a young boy who was interested in a Naval career and was just about to join the sea cadets, in preparation for Annapolis.   So we exchanged e-mail addresses in case he wanted to hear any of my sea stories. 

So as we begin driving up I-77, I check my GroupMe and find the SkyBlast is very concerned about a multi-layer that the smurfs have put up.  I didn't know that the Check Point was at 16:00, so I figured I could take it down after we finished with St. Ann's.  

MoxieKai stepped in and was able to attack the North East corner, and since I saw him on the IITC, I figured we had time to hit the lighthouse on the North West corner, before appearing at St. Ann's.  This was nearly a "Leroy Jenkins" move. I had no idea I would be dealing with a Level 8 portal that was well shielded.

Look before you attack - very important!

I suppose I should have known better.  It was the critical anchor for their layer cake. I might have been able to take it out, but I was too lazy to get out of the car, and I wasn't directly on top of the portal for the first L7 Burster.  I was able to take out 3 resonators pretty easily, and had I been centered I think I would have succeeded. 

But one thing to know about an L8.  It takes 8 L8 or higher agents to build one, because no agent can put more than one Level 8 resonator on a portal (Jarvis / ADA excepted) and that means when you hit a portal, at least eight agents are going to get a report, and they can all recharge remotely if they have keys - and you bet that they do!

So I expended all my L7 and L6 bursters, which was about 150 each, and realized it was a lost cause. NavyMom59 also threw what she could, but as she's still L3, it wasn't much help.  We need both of us to L8 ASAP. 

We moved onto St. Ann's after announcing we had to give it up.

Then, we picked up our daughter Hylidae59 and the three of us when to the class taught by Xzre.  
FringeDynamic, AlphaWolfHybrid, and boyintub were also in attendance. It was very helpful, as I didn't quite know how to use bookmarks, and how that made drawing fields so much easier.  We also discussed various ways to throw large fields.

I think we may host the next one.