Darsana Prime Swag now available!

The Blue Voodoo Resistance invite you to New Orleans for our fourth Ingress XM Anomaly: Darsana Prime on February 23, 2019.

Swag Shop now contains exclusive Darsana Prime swag – Early Bird sale pricing is up until January 20.

Celebrating 300 years since its founding, New Orleans is known as the birthplace of Jazz and presents an incredible selection of live music every night of the week. Over 1500 local restaurants tempt the tastebuds with global as well as rich local Creole and Cajun culinary traditions. New Orleans is also the home of Mardi Gras, the greatest free show on earth since 1699. Visitors for Darsana Prime will experience Carnival’s satire and spectacle with 11 parades passing in front of the Resistance hotel during the anomaly weekend.

New Orleans is also the site of epic anomaly events, including successful Interitus and Helios connected cells, blue Gulf fields blanketing agents as they partied after Darsana, the most points scored in a single instant when four continental shards shuttled over 1100 km from Charlotte to New Orleans during Abaddon, and one of the closest scores in XM Anomaly history when the Enlightened managed to eke out a win by just 25 points during Via Noir.

Join the Blue Voodoo Resistance for Mardi Gras, food, music and Darsana Prime in New Orleans on February 23, 2019!

Resistance Anomaly Registration for access to anomaly chats, team organization, etc.

Niantic Anomaly Registration is not yet available

Swag Shop now contains exclusive Darsana Prime swag – Early Bird sale pricing is up until January 20.

Darsana Prime Accommodations are now available.

These accommodations at the Hilton New Orleans/St. Charles Avenue put you right on the parade route and in the middle of it all!

Parade Schedule

Darsana Prime Accommodations Available

Darsana Prime Anomaly comes to New Orleans on 23-FEB-2019.

Come to New Orleans as Mardi Gras gets into full swing.

Darsana Prime Accommodations are now available.

These accommodations at the Hilton New Orleans/St. Charles Avenue put you right on the parade route and in the middle of it all!

That weekend from Friday to Sunday there are 11 parades that pass in front of your hotel alone! That’s not counting the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus (From Star Trek to Star Wars, Unicorns to Ninjas and Pirates) and the Krewe of Barkus (all the good doggies!).

Parade Schedule

Invade. Defend. Resist.

Agents invade New Orleans from near and far once a year to defend our fine city from the Shaper ingression. This year, as we prepare to host our third annual XM Primary Anomaly event on November 12th, we wanted to honor both agents who have defended New Orleans on multiple occasions and those who are bringing their whole community as one big invasion. The Defender and Invader rewards were created to achieve this goal.

Defenders are those agents attending November 12th that have come to the aid of Blue Voodoo at previous anomalies and during anomaly-related activities like connected cells and global shards/artifacts. These agents are the first to answer the call when Blue Voodoo puts up the Baron beacon, and we could not appreciate them more.

Invaders are those agents that are traveling to New Orleans for this year’s anomaly and arriving with or bringing their communities in force. The best anomaly experience is when you bring your whole town with you – and having done it for other cities, we know that isn’t an easy feat to organize.

To honor both of these important types of agents in our anomaly battle, Blue Voodoo decided to create swag gifts that feature our uniqueness and play upon our local Voodoo and Creole origins. Both of the designs feature Louisiana Creole French and a snake.

Louisiana Creole French is different from most French dialects. It is a mixture of Colonial French and a variety of African languages that occurred in the 18th century; essentially Creole French is a French dialect strongly influenced by African and Native American languages. Although not quite the same, Louisiana Creole is very similar to Haitian Creole.

The snake is a very important symbol in Voodoo, representing a creator and protector. The Defender and Invader logos feature the snake in different positions, but both have a frog skull on the tail.

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The Defender design consists of a snake defensively coiled around a skeleton key protection charm with a “defend” glyph on its head and in Louisiana Creole French reads, “Defansé nan Nouvèl-Òléan,” or “Defender of New Orleans.” Our defender logo also graces the back of our Via Noir coin. Multi-year defenders were eligible to purchase special finishes of our Via Noir coin and will also each receive a free patch and sticker with the defender logo.

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The Invader design is quite a different snake – it is poised and ready to strike, wound around an “attack” glyph and in Louisiana Creole French reads, “Okipan nan Nouvèl-Òléan,” or “Invader of New Orleans.” The Invader design will not be featured on any swag sold for this event – it will be given only to the top 12 Invader communities in the form of a patch and sticker for each agent.

We hope that these initiatives are a step toward showing how much Blue Voodoo appreciates agents that attend our events and come to our aid in times of need. We are working tirelessly to make Via Noir New Orleans the best possible anomaly experience for all visiting Resistance agents. It’s not too late to register to join us on the ground November 12th. Defend NOLA. Invade NOLA. #MakeNOLABlue!

-Blue Voodoo

Via Noir Swag Shop Now Open!

New Orleans is steeped in traditions that may seem strange to the outside onlooker. She has been kissed by much history and many cultures, all of which have left identifying marks (and sometimes scars) on her face. The local Resistance have embraced those roots that are permeated by Voodoo, hence the team name “Blue Voodoo”.

Niantic has again chosen New Orleans to be a Q4 Ingress anomaly primary site. Because of this, Blue Voodoo team members have quickly snapped into action preparing to make this event not only victorious for the Resistance, but memorable and fun by putting their own unique twist on things.

This year’s logo, designed by agent NarumiFox, features a jazz funeral for a frog. Jazz funerals are a tradition uniquely New Orleans. They start with the mourners slowly making their way to the burial place with a brass band playing a slow and somber song. Once the burial is finished, the procession leaves with dance and celebration – the band picks up and the jazz music starts. Traditionally, the procession is led by the “main line” comprised of the brass band, family and friends of the deceased and funeral directors who are then followed by the group of people marching behind them or, the “second line”. Blue Voodoo’s particular  jazz funeral is led by their mascot, Baron Samedi. In voodoo, the Baron is the loa of the dead. He is known for his affinity for tobacco, rum and degenerate behavior. So, it is only fitting to have him lead the Resistance’s jazz funeral and second line for the rival Enlightened team’s frog.

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“Music here is as much a part of death as it is of life.” – Sidney Bechet, 1897-1959, New Orleans Jazzman

The Baron will be accompanied by a sidekick, Tootie Laveau. Tootie Laveau is a mischievous bird that has recently taken to nesting with her mighty hordes of tootie birds in Slack. Do keep an eye out for Tootie Laveau here and there. Outside of slack, her brethren can be found taking up residence in various New Orleans trees, making a ruckus and breeding indiscriminately.

Tootie Laveau is based off of the party parrot while real-life tootie birds are green quaker parrots and have graced New Orleans since their accidental introduction via the pet trade.

Our Swag Shop is open for purchases as of today and features a special bundle for each of our honored mascots. 

Order yours today and check out the rest of the Swag Shop for more amazing products and deals – including throwbacks from Darsana and Abaddon and our Resistance Navy coin!

This year’s Ingress anomaly is entitled “Via Noir” and takes place November 12, 2016. New Orleans is also hosting it’s second Ingress Mission Day on November 13, 2016.

Please join the local Blue Voodoo agents on the ground to make this a successful resistance win. Register here now

Make NOLA Blue Again

Blue Voodoo is proud to announce that we will be hosting our third annual Ingress anniversary Primary Anomaly event on November 12, 2016.

SIGN UP NOW TO ATTEND

Have you been to a previous anomaly in New Orleans? Unlock special Defender swag for multi-year attendees!

Bringing a big krewe? Unlock special Invader bonuses for winning our regional recruitment competitions!

Details will be posted soon. Bookmark bluevoodoo.la for the latest updates.

Keep resisting and we look forward to welcoming you to our historic and infamously fun city in November!

– Blue Voodoo

We Won Abaddon!

We Won Abaddon!

New Orleans hosted our second primary Ingress XM anomaly on Saturday, November 14, 2015 during the Abaddon series. Over a thousand agents from around the world battled for New Orleans that day as part of ground forces, long distance shard teams, and navy crews. The Enlightened outnumbered the Resistance on the ground, but due to smart use of resources and sheer force of will, the Resistance won the day by capturing four XM shards that were moved with precision from Charlotte, North Carolina to the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain within hours.

Niantic agreed, posting:

“A truly astounding performance.

The Enlightened fought hard in New Orleans and seemed to be building a comfortable lead until the Resistance pulled out all the stops to capture the Final Measurement, cutting their opponent’s lead down considerably. The Enlightened maintained a strong upper hand in Charlotte, and also made a strong push to capture Pittsburgh after falling behind earlier in the Anomaly. The Resistance, meanwhile, held Guatemala over the course of the day.

However, in a truly impressive feat, Resistance Agents across the region mobilized and transported 4 XM Shards from Charlotte to New Orleans — more than a thousand kilometers over land — to help overcome the unrelenting Enlightened ground force in New Orleans. Immediately following the capture of the Shards, Resistance Agents threw large Fields over Charlotte and New Orleans to counter a last minute Enlightened push. Combined with an aggressive shield of blocking Links to the south holding the XM Shards in Guatemala at bay, this was a praiseworthy stratagem executed with precision.

Dr. Martin Schubert, a bastion of skepticism and critical thinking, now stands with the Resistance.”

As Abaddon came to a close in December our win in New Orleans proved to be instrumental to the overall outcome of the series. The Resistance narrowly captured victory with a score of 13-12.


Blue Voodoo continues to welcome visitors to New Orleans regularly – if you are planning to visit or are already in town – speak up on Faction COMM and one of our team members will meet you and provide free BV swag. 

We look forward to participating in anomaly events locally and throughout the region in 2016. Viva la Resistance!