VAIN ☕🦊

VAIN Check!

VAINs second and more appropriately 🦊colored XM Field Notes, pictured here on an Airplane Tray Table, next to a small coin and napkin. The Journal is bound with a Purple Rubber Band which is securing a Red 🖊️ Pin.

☕🦊🛫 #Timecheck 👀 Currently in flight to HOU for the +Beta @ingress.com Anomaly! Very eager to meet you out there Agents. 🕵️‍♂️

To mark the occasion and study the effects of the +Beta Anomalies I've secured a new XM Field Notes Journal. 🦊📗

Stay Vigilant Agents, the world around you is not as it seems.

VAIN Recurses at 470,000,000 AP for his tenth Ingress Recursion.

Progress! Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

Recurse and begin again. Welp it seems I couldn't wait for 500 Million AP after all. Recursed during October IFS for my tenth iteration! 🦊♻️🎉 Managed to push slightly over Lvl-9 before double AP ended, in total just shy of 6.2M AP gained on Saturday. #Ingress #Recursion

VAIN earns Onyx Engineer for real.

VAIN earns Onyx Engineer at the Oktoberfest after some Microfielding. Mmm Strudel. Also UWU notices your bounties.

As always, why stop at just one screenshot? 👀 Managed to "walk" this one out for a few hours.

VAIN deploys portal mods into the VOID, at long last earning Onyx Engineer!

Deploying Mods into the VOID of the Portal Network when suddenly, Onyx Engineer Get! 🦊🎉 The evil is defeated as my 23rd #OnyxMedal. Only Explorer, Connector, Hacker, Pioneer and Purifier remain for OG medals currently sitting at Platinum. The grind continues! #Ingress #Achievements

Oh lord the thought of hitting 1B AP mostly on foot is uh. Oh mercy. Pushing the button at exact 40M increments does seem to work best though for motivation. 😂 This break has been nice but I'm eager to continue the insanity.

VAIN weighs his choices, push button 🔘 Soon™️ or push 🫸🦊 for a future Recursion at 500,000,000 AP*. *HINT: He's likely going to push the button because haha Recursion button go brrrrrrr

Choices! Shall I Recurse at 470,000,000AP or push to 500,000,000AP for the tenth iteration of this 🦊 Simulacrum?

VAIN plays Boktai: The Sun is in your hand on his OG Game Boy Advance SP. Today is a great Boktai Day!

VAIN as Solar Boy Django from Boktai 2.

[BOKTAI MENTIONED] Hearing news about the KojiPro x Niantic Spatial partnership felt like a fever dream. I'll be replaying Boktai and DS2 until we break out the Rucks for whatever the future holds.

Physical Boktai copies are expensive but I highly recommend the game, it's a true hidden gem.

Microfielding is a hell of a drug! Recently my all time Control Fields created surpassed Links created. 🦊🎉 Max Field all the things! #Ingress

A fox🦊named Vanity! Uh oh, do I have to change my Fursona now?

I'm still not certain if these memories are cryptic, buried or erased but what a time it was. Nothing compares to fighting over global shards.

Fresh ☕ with a Biscoff, perfect! 🦊👌

VAIN wishes to drive the Sherman, thankfully the Anomaly was already over.

🦊 enters The Danger Zone

Changing of the Guard at the Target Portal be like.

I wonder how good the ☕ at Château Frontenac is?

Not even a week has passed and I already find myself looking forward to the next @ingress.com XM Anomaly. While we wait, may as well share a few more #ActualIngressGameplayFootage memories from Mission Day in Quebec City. 📸🎒🦊☕🍁

Sandguke, at the Jimmy Johns. Extra Free Smells not included.

What's in the box? 🎁

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What's in the box 🦊🎁? Agents are cautioned to maintain situational awareness in the presence of Experimental and volatile XM technology.

QUEBEC XMA AZ BOLO For Agent VAIN: @ingress.com

This 🦊'y Agent is rumored to be carrying some Ingress swag on hand, should Agents manage to catch him. #Ingress

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A little Americano after the conclusion of +Delta Quebec, as a treat! ☕🦊

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Machina could surely be here, he thought. 🦊💭

+Delta Quebec XMA Provisional SITRIP_01-250824 🦊🗒️

✨XM Density✨ remains elevated throughout the Anomalous Zone as Agents continue vying for control of local XM Portals during Mission Day.

👁️ Sightings of the elusive NL-1331Q are flooding in. Agents it's time to move! #MeetYouOutThere @ingress.com

Next up I'll chip away at a few personal goals as I chill at L16 for awhile. Onyx Engineer Soon™️. The evil is almost defeated.

He's right behind me isn't he.

Then came #Level8Week with it's insane x6 AP multiplier on Apex. Pushing me back to L16 just in time for the next round of Anomalies. #MeetYouOutThere Agents, +Delta is calling.

VAIN dings L16 in Ingress at exactly 420,000,000 AP. The lad then Recurses and camps at L1 with 69 AP for that NICE 420,000,069 AP screenshot.

VAIN pictured as the Liden Avenue Water Tank, undergoing his 9th Recursion.

🦊♻️ Recurse and begin again! On June 22nd I celebrated completion of my 8th #Ingress Recursion, clocking in at a flat 420,000,000 AP to ding L16. To date this was my fastest Recursion on foot outside of a double AP event, 62 Days from L1.

As a treat I camped at 69 AP on Recursion 9 for the night. 👀

Oh hai it's me VAIN! ☕🦊🎒🥾
bsky.app/profile/vain... I do enjoy a good Ingress post. 👀

OLW is back at it again? Oh hai it's me VAIN, I volunteer as tribute.

I'd like to credit this wonderful piece bsky.app/profile/senr... by @senryl.bsky.social for the inspiration.

A [REDACTED] exploded view of Ingress Agent VAINs every day carry Rucksack. The contents of his Ruck are laid bare on a neatly made Hotel Double Bed. Among the items are various Anime Boobie Patches, Hydration Supplements, Keys, Lockpicks, External Batteries and Chargers, A Bop-It! Button Gold Chain, Bop-It! Mini, Water Purification Tablets, Journal, Pens, Floss, Gloves, Buc-ee's Jalapeno Peanut Brittle, Duct Tape, Sillcock Key, Challenge Coins, A Furry Beer Koozie that reads "Road Chill", Napkins and Moist Towelettes from Hooters, Bottle Opener, Hand Lotion, Big Red Gum, Passport, Wallet, Wind Breaker, Hydration Bladder, Comb, Microfiber cloth, Spare Hydration Bladder Mouth Pieces, Nuun Tablets, Rubber Chicken, Headlamp, Loose Change and Nashville Erased Memories Anomaly Biocards. Not to mention several items are [REDACTED] for uh "reasons". Obviously as you can tell from this chaotic assortment of supplies, this Ingress Fox Creature only packs the bare essentials when playing Ingress.

A tiny peek behind the curtain. At the Nashville, TN Erased Memories #Ingress Anomaly I did a hotel Ruck dump for "reasons". 👀👀👀 As you can see I only pack the essentials.

Working on adding more first-aid supplies to level up my med kit beyond boo boo bag status. Living my best #GORUCK EDC life.

Agent VAIN, a player of the massive multiplayer augmented reality game Ingress, earns the Onyx Minder Controller medal after 12 years!

VAIN earns the Onyx Mind Controller badge but where are the control fields? SECRETS!

Agent VAIN earns the Onyx Minder Controller badge but the scanner only displays Machina aligned portals. WHERE ARE THE FIELDS? Third faction confirmed?

Why stop at earning a badge only once? Finally dinged Onyx Mind Controller so decided to celebrate with a few extra screenshots. #Ingress

The numbers! What do they mean?! #Ingress Just barely on track for one of my fastest recursion yet but I haven't quite decided on when I'll push the button for my seventh spin.

Then suddenly without explanation you just break out in song. 🎶 Millions of corpses, corpses for me! 🎶

Fogs

It churns often but honestly that's half the fun and great AP to boot!

+2 AP, it might not look like much but recharge battles can get intense rather quickly. #Ingress

While we're still getting introduced to one another. I present the two sides of VAIN! Maybe it's in his Coffee? Maybe it's just his chaos goblin tendencies. Foxes gonna fox but also Bop-It, Baking and Ingress.

Art and pfps by @tacorat.com

Certain places in games just have that mysterious aura about them. Pure vibes. Never stop exploring. The joy comes in the pursuit.