Search for Bourne—Day 10

July 27th, 2007

Okay. The camera strategy worked. Both of yesterdays caught shots of Bourne.

But now for a complete spoiler of today’s challenge in the Ultimate Search for Bourne. Don’t keep reading if you don’t want the mission to be spoiled for you.

Our missions briefing tells us Simon Ross, our current contact, is a liar. We’re instructed to revisit the clue sites from the last two days to see if we can find a more accurate rendezvous location. Those locations are Google Group “Sightseeing in London” and a page at Priceless.com. Note that the Google Group is exactly the same, but the Priceless.com page linked to in the mission briefing is definitely different.

The Priceless.com page contains almost exactly the same text as the message thread in the Google Group that wasn’t relevant in yesterday’s challenge. “T.Gray” posted it on the Google Group, “T.Grey” did on Priceless.com.

The Priceless.com page includes a photo of what appear to be bus routes connecting to Waterloo Station, judging from the icons. This is an alternative to the image of the statue of Terrence Cuneo, an English painter whose statue features prominently in the station.

It’s easy to get distracted by red herrings today. Cuneo, the bus routes (or train routes), and all the Googling you could possibly do is a waste of time, as Agent Simon Ross has told us directly in the text—and with a big, bright-red circle on a map in the Google Group focusing on the Station—exactly where he is.

Just transmit Waterloo Station in the communication panel to solve today’s challenge.

As for camera placement, since my last two cameras both worked, I’m leaving them in place at the London Eye and Waterloo Station. For the third, I’m going with the camera at 62 South Audley Street, because searching for that in Google reveals that it’s the location of The Counter Spy Shop. This is a spy game, after all, so maybe Jason Bourne will stop by to pick up some surveillance gear.

The game won’t continue till Monday, so check back then if you need spoilers for day 11.

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