On Friday night, I looked online and noticed that the Niantic Project ARG dead drop of a storyboard to a scene we haven't fully seen in the game was still unclaimed at the Redwood City library. The drop was stuck inside a Isaac Asimov book titled The Neutrino. The drop, a single piece of paper, was a piece of the larger story of the ARG and in two days, no one had claimed it.
On Saturday morning, the library opened at 10:00. We did some prep work by looking in the library system from home and finding the location of the book, on the shelf in the adult non-fiction section with the catalog number 539A.
We got there a few minutes after 10 and someone was hacking the library portal when I walked in, but no one had claimed the storyboard.
I excitedly took the book from the shelf, dropped it like a klutz and put it on a table. I found the drop, snapped a couple of photos and went outside to show my wife. She was gone.
It turned out she had driven to a shopping plaza nearby to grab a Jamba Juice. I walked over and she took a photo of me with the storyboard and I posted to Verum Inveniri like the game's storyline said to do. I earned three invite codes for the game from that and became internet famous for about ten people that actually follow the game.
The funny thing is, I posted the invites to the local Resistance communities and they were all claimed within minutes. The people took the free handout but couldn't do the small amount of work to claim the drop themselves.
I am glad that I am a part of the organized, willing to work together San Francisco Resistance and not just the South Bay Resistance. If I was only a South Bay member, I may have given up on Ingress by now.
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