Black Ops/Ascension

the red telephones

three phones that ring on their own clock, and the voices on them are the four men from "Five", still in the Pentagon.

players

any number

solo

possible alone

difficulty

time

about 30 minutes

reward

three lines from a different map, and nothing else

difficulty and time are an estimate made while writing, not a measurement.

the steps

1. 1

   how the ringing works

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   anywhere on the mapanyone

   the map chooses one of the three phones at random every 120 to 300 seconds, and the chosen one rings for ten seconds. hold use while it is ringing to answer it.

   you cannot pick which one rings, so this is done by camping somewhere that covers a phone and doing something else until you hear it.

   you only get this wrong once

   ten seconds is not long, and the round you are on does not stop for it. answering all three is a job for a quiet early round rather than something to try at round thirty.

   done

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these can be done in any order

2. 2

   the phone in the centrifuge room

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   by the lunar lander in the centrifuge roomanyone

   to the left of the lunar lander in the centrifuge room, between several fuse boxes.

   Kennedy, asking for "some beans for the chowder here" while dry firing an empty gun. he says it in "Five" when he runs out of ammunition.

   done

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3. 3

   the phone past the power switch

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   down the stairs beyond the power switchanyone

   left of the power switch, through the chain link fence, down the stairs, turn right, next to a mystery box spawn.

   Nixon, firing an FN FAL and then howling like a wolf, which is what he does in "Five" after a good streak.

   done

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4. 4

   the phone by `PhD Flopper`

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   right of PhD Flopperanyone

   just to the right of the PhD Flopper machine.

   Castro: "come to me, the revolution dies without Fidel Castro". he says it in "Five" when he goes down.

   that is all three. there is a guide to the map they are from.

   tip

   the Black Ops III version of this map replaces these three lines with the four originals talking from behind the door in Call of the Dead, and adds a separate set of ringing phones that plays Not Ready to Die. neither is here in Black Ops.

   done

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where this came from

• AscensionCall of Duty Wiki, read 2026-09-07

one source. most guides here have two; this is one nobody else has written up.