I'd been quite deliberately turning the phone off to be sure of having enough battery, just lighting it up again if I wanted to check the route or as I approached a waypoint. For the previous couple of outings I'd taken a spare battery and charge cable with me, but didn't appear to be in any danger of needing them, and frankly they were just a nuisance. It was just that in my haste to finish the homeward leg, I didn't think to turn it back on for that final waypoint.
I also didn't want to accidentally do something that might upset the app or the web browser. So I really wanted the phone locked when I wasn't actively using it.
It doesn't really need a waypoint for home; it's just that without it the game would end before providing the map to get back. I don't really need that, but it would kinda offend me for the map to not show and track the whole route. But what I might do is have a "complete" button appear after the last remote waypoint is reached (and the ETA for the route home is passed), and pressing that would end the game and unlock the box. That way I'd still have the map and running display of when all the waypoints were reached right up to the point where I was ready to unlock.
Yeah. I know that the chances of someone actually stopping me to talk are pretty low - I mean even on crowded streets that doesn't happen a whole lot. So I figure that the chances of being accosted by one of the no-one-at-all on the streets of suburbia after midnight on a weekday are pretty low.It's a good thing that no one saw you - after all, the tension remains while you walk through that illuminated street and don't know what will happen next,
But of course they're not zero. And there's always a possibility that someone stumbling along the street in a skirt and long hair might attract the, uh, wrong sort of attention. Or be seen as a damsel in distress in need of rescue. Or treat the face mask as a deliberate attempt to hide my face (which it is) for nefarious purposes (which it isn't).
I'm wondering if I should take a little printed card I can show that says, "I am fine. It is just a game. Please leave me alone." (or have that in my phone's notes app ready to show.)