Back in July 2015 Madgick, Fortifer (and several others) created fields with one of the anchors in an area which was closed-off at night. We noticed this actually stopped ENL from taking down the field at that anchor and the plan was born to create a field with all anchors in unreachable areas. Someone mentioned castles and MunchnetNL coined the name 'Sir Lancelot'. Fortifer started scanning the area for suitable castles and found Groeneveld (Baarn), de Haar (Haarzuilens, near Maarssenbroek) and Muiderslot (not really a castle, but close enough). Buizerd liked the idea and pledged his allegiance, and so the three musketeers Madgick, Fortifer and Buizerd set off to find this holy grail: the unbreakable field!
Soon it was discovered all the castles would close at 17pm on December 30th for 2 days. We planned to farm the keys in the summer during a cultural visit to enjoy our country's heritage. We would start gathering a clearing crew in December.
Actually going on a cultural visit to enjoy our country's heritage did not turn out to be within everybody's comfort zone. The Muiderslot keys were still lacking well into December so after some asking around AntRoe was so nice to pay this fortress a visit and farm the keys for us. In the meantime Fortifer and Buizerd were busy rallying help in the difficult areas of this operation, most notably Maarssen and Bussum, both towns we were linking directly through the middle of (yes, this is a correct sentence). The holy grail would definitely not be attained without much effort.
Also joining our forces was wizard Oilpink The Great to keep an eye on intel and guard us safely through swamps and past dragons. Wizard Oilpink would be assisted by knights Wruh and Galanas in this task.
Finally, after what felt like ages of waiting and anticipating, the day arrived and clearing started, a bit on the early side. Knight Wruh was ready to shoot a blocklink along the west side of the field. In Maarssen city emerging blocklinks were removed by Realrouge, parakoort and Fly59 througout the day. The indigo damsel katoo appeared on their scanners fielding together areas that had just been cleared. Realrouge and parakoort ventured forth to toss the holy handgrenade at her but were spotted by the dark green knight Sv3nvs, which probably aroused his suspicion. After katoo ran away we shot some blocklinks around the outside of the southwest corner in an attempt to secure our cleared zones.
This also might have set off some alarms because around this time the lovely lady from the lake DaiyaDawn emerged in Vreeland to seduce our trustworthy knight Stargate88 who was clearing that area.
3:08PM DaiyaDawn:@stargate88 sorry I hurried off so quickly, if you're still around want some coffee ^^'?
Whilst they were having coffee and undoubtedly reciting poetry to each other (for one hour) new blocklinks were shot to a portal in Vreeland from inside the fielding zone. Luckily Stargate88 survived DaiyaDawn's coffee and cajolery to emerge, fit as ever, and flip the portal at the exact right moment.
Along the north side of the field there were also some minor distractions. Knights NashOner and Reinieros cleared the blockers there swiftly. Knight Galanas noticed a tiny forgotten blocklink in Bussum, which Reinieros quickly removed. Each operation seems to need at least one tiny forgotten blocklink.
In the southeast knight MartenK cleared several blockers and was standing by in case of sudden emergencies.
Exactly at the planned time of 16:30 all edges were clear and fielding could commence. Knight Madgick was in Muiderslot, Buizerd in Groeneveld and Fortifer was in de Haar together with Realrouge. Three layers were created when suddenly a horde of barbarous tribesmen (CPTpruts, Gustafrog and others) broke from the woods at Groeneveld (maybe it's in the name? Groeneveld = Green field) and flipped our inner anchor. Not much later the dark green knight Sv3nvs invaded de Haar as well and efficiently took down that corner, even fielding it shortly thereafter.
This meant our operation was over and the quest to keep a large field up for two days had failed. However we had a lots of fun, learned a lot and are all ready for the next operation!
Our round table consisted of: AntRoe, Buizerd, Fly59, Fortifer, Galanas, Madgick, MartenK, MunchnetNL, NashOner, Realrouge, Reinieros, Stargate88, oilpink, parakoort, wruh
Control Fields created: 80901, 80411, 80633, 82086 MUs, for a - not so grand - total of 324031 MUs.
#Ingress #Resistance #Reswueisawesome
+NIA Ops +Julia Vivienne Loverdose +Anne Beuttenmüller +Matilde Tusberti
