There is less than a week to go until the next round of First Saturdays.  They’re still running from home, so take a look at the available locations, and sign up now to enjoy a fabulous social with some fellow Ingressers.

Bridlington – a Georgian town in Yorkshire – https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17616
Cardiff – UK’s longest running First Saturday – https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17785
Chester – a chance to support Chester zoo – https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17650
Edinburgh – it’s going to be sunny – https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17562
Ipswich – an historic county town – https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17636
London – at St Paul’s Cathedral – https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17817
Oxford – at the Radcliffe Camera – https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17700
South Shields – at the mouth of the River Tyne –https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17651
Truro – the first Cornish First Saturday – https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17538
Wakefield – at the wonderful Yorkshire Sculpture Park – https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17779

#IngressFS #StayAtHome

Having mastered Zoom (other conferencing tools do exist!), taking selfies, quizzes and scavenger hunts, agents had extra fun this month with a twist on the decode challenge.  Thanks to Fev games, Niantic and all the faction leaders who made all this fabulous fun possible.  Don’t miss out on the fun and join us all next month!

#IngressFS #StaySafe #StayAtHome #IngressFS@Home

 

 

After the fabulous May Virtual First Saturdays, you can now see your UK choices for June!

Callanish (in memory of agent DiamondDuke): https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17117

Cambridge (“meeting” at the clock inscribed with “mundus transit et concupiscentia eius”) : https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17336

Cardiff (the longest running FS in the UK!): https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17411

Chesterfield (set your novelty hats at a jaunty, Chesterfield spire angle!) : https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17269

Eastleigh (UK wayfarers sharing portal diamonds and coal): https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17235

Esholt (“meeting” at the original and famous Woolpack from Emmerdale): https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17235

Hexham (home town of England’s oldest purpose built gaol dating back to 1333, so better behave!): https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17180

London (Is this the only way agents will get signal at the London Eye?): https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17388

West Kirby (keeping your feet dry while “meeting” at a tidal island): https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17188

The First Saturday might have been virtual, but the fun was very real as all these agents can attest to!

Hundreds of agents across the UK – Belfast, Cardiff, Coventry, Crawley, Feshiebridge, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham, Southampton and Telford – got together to have a bit of Ingress fun, recharging, doing wayfarer, quizzing, sharing banter and, most importantly of all, staying at home!

Many thanks to Fev Games for helping us all reconnect!

#IngressFS #StaySafe #StayAtHome #IngressFS@Home

Missing your monthly First Saturday fix?  Time to get the show back on the road, although you need travel no further than the comfort of your sofa!  Join one of these locations for one of the first Virtual First Saturdays tomorrow.  Don’t try visiting the registration portal as verification for attendance will be done by the leaders for each location.

Belfast https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=16842
Cardiff https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=16883
Coventry https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=16728
Crawley https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=16769
Feshiebridge https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=16551 
Leeds https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17009
Liverpool https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=16964
London https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=16760
Milton Keynes https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=16583
Newcastle upon Tyne https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=16878
Nottingham https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=16845
Southampton https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=17032
Telford https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=16788 

It’s time to NOT move!

#EnlightenedFTW

 

 

As we all focus on keeping our families, friends and communities safe, we won’t be publishing about fields like this for a while.

Remember that it’s only a game.  Making fields and hitting checkpoints is fun, but right now, there are more important things and our emergency services don’t need us to make more work for them.

“Parting is such sweet sorrow that I’ll say good night until tonight becomes tomorrow.”

 

Every Ingress agent is young at heart, but no-one more so than agent PallasOwl who recently celebrated her semisesquicentennial birthday in the company of fellow agents in Brighton.  To save you Googling… that’s 75!

Following an introduction from her son, PallasOwl has been playing regularly since the third year of Ingress and wants to get to level 16 before she “pops her clogs”.  As well as being the Matriarch of Brighton, PallasOwl is also known fondly (at least by the Enlightened) as the hero of the Battle of Saltdean. 

So, how did she get that title?  Well, one Sunday evening, an alert went out about a large Resistance field which was expected to cut through Saltdean, a town east of Brighton on the South East English coast.  Some Resistance agents had cleared the town and put a blocker along the coast and were sitting in their cars on standby.  PallasOwl stepped up to help, smashed the blocker and started spamming links everywhere.  For the next while, the Resistance agents were in hot pursuit trying, but failing, to remove all her links. We will never know if her links were the only blockers to that field attempt, but the tale was born!

Bumping into one of the Resistance agents a week later, another Enlightened agent asked “Are you OK? I heard that last weekend, you got beaten up by a little old lady”!

#EnlightenedFTW #CelebratingDiversityInIngress

Pump up the MU

Pump up the MU

Pump up the MU

Field! Field!

Some huge fields popped up over Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire last night.  Millions of MU captured and layers upon layers!

Fabulous work agents!

#EnlightenedFTW

You wouldn’t think it was the middle of winter looking at the hundreds of agents who turned out for the nine First Saturdays that took place up and down the UK yesterday.

Bath, Cardiff, Glasgow, Hoylake (Merseyside), Ipswich, Kingston upon Hull, Greenwich (London), Market Harborough and Reading provided warm welcomes to all these agents.

Did you forget to go?  Mark your diary for March 7th, and don’t miss the next one!

#EnlightenedFTW #IngressFS #Ingress

Earlier this week, agent imajicaman decided to do a spot of solo fielding over the market town of Burton upon Trent.  And it most definitely went for a Burton under all the ensuing layers!  Including a re-throw, around 20 layers were closed, totalling around 1.2m MU.

Fabulous work agent!

#EnlightenedFTW