Post #3743679
2026-07-11 17:01 UTC
@darkphoenix@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net So we decided that the easiest thing was to go towards Pasewalk, and try to narrow it down on the way there, as there was a junction there that could be helpful if we were wrong.
We had a hunch, based on the fact that there was a particular ICE to Stralsund the previous hour that had a stop in Mecklemburg-Vorpommern that would have just fit into their time budget, and this train would take us there.
This regional train was packed to the gills, as one of the five carriages was closed off as unusable. As a result, the first class area was available for use by everybody... and most people either didn't realise or ignored the announcements to the effect, so we managed to go up in the first class section of the train, reasonably quietly.
As we went up, we discovered that we were going to go through Angermünde, and, based on the same hunch, we decided to ask if their station started with the same letter as ours…
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@moof@cupoftea.social 2026-07-11 17:12
@darkphoenix@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net …and it did! Which basically narrowed the possible stations down to 7, of which 5 were outside of their time budget. So, we had to differentiate between Anklam and Altentreptow. We had plenty of time, and so chose to ask for a photo of the biggest body of water in the hiding zone, thinking that we might be able to differentiate between the estuary in Anklam, and the smaller river in Altentreptow. 20 minutes later, the picture we received was inconclusive. So we decided to go for a backup option: asking whether they were closer or further away from the coast than us. Their response that it was closer allowed us to narrow it down... They were in Anklam.