Talk:Porygon Statue/@comment-1674153-20160404164442/@comment-24588058-20160404170323

Only a partial misunderstanding. The artifact points to where the artifact is, but that's an approximate line of sight that can cover hundreds, if not thousands of miles. With everything else that's going on, the Warehouse doesn't have the time to search the entire line or take the statue with them across the country to help narrow the search down. Instead, they will rely on the pings, which will let them know of possible artifact activity, by specifically looking for the two calling cards: cyberspace exploration and photosensitive epileptic seizures. Unfortunately, whoever is in possession of the statue appears to be aware of the downsides (or may be aware now) and is avoiding causing a ruckus.

Actually, there could be an interesting idea here. What if the man who bought it was aware of artifacts? Someone who was behaving like MacPherson, but wasn't an ex-agent? He may have only thought the one statue was an artifact at the time he bought it, but what if he began to think later based on how his statue was behaving that the other statue might be an artifact as well, and attempted to track down (and get into) Warehouse 13?