Inbound from Proxima (Kent)

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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.???  [] In South East England, United Kingdom

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"Inbound from Proxima" is a multi-stage virtual cache. The only treasure in it is the pleasure of solving the puzzle.

To log the cache you must visit a number of locations in sequence. At each location you will find a landmark with a few words on it. The position of the next landmark can be determined by decoding the landmark as explained below. When you have visited all the locations you will also be able to find two code words which will enable you to log the cache.

There is a car park at N 51° 18.782',E 0° 11.303'.

All the landmarks can be reached via public paths, roads or parks.

The path to the first landmark (it starts at N 51° 18.713',E 0° 10.877') does however cross a farm field which can be extremely muddy at times, and often has livestock in it. Dogs need to be kept on a lead.

There are two routes you can take to log this cache. The scenic route is longer and trickier. The express route misses out most of the cross-country walking and visits fewer locations. You could log one or both routes. If you want to log both, then I'd suggest you visit both the express and scenic start locations before going on to the rest.

The Scenic Route

1. N 51° 19.141',E 0° 10.391' Template: "?#.@+............."
2. N 51° 18.?+2',E 0° 10.@#2' Template: ".@.#?..+.........."
3. N 51° 18.?++',E 0° 11.@7#' Template: "+.?.%@#..........."
4. N 51° 18.?+%',E 0° 11.@#6' Template: ".+...#?%@........."
5. N 51° 18.?+%',E 0° 11.@#6' Template: ".@..#?.%.+........"
6. N 51° 18.?+%',E 0° 11.@#?' Template: ".+.@#............."
7. N 51° 18.9+1',E 0° 11.@#7' Template: "?.#+..@..%........"
8. N 51° 18.?+%',E 0° 11.@?#' Template: "...@.............."

1. N 51° 18.659',E 0° 10.589' Template: ".#?@.............."
2. N 51° 18.?12',E 0° 10.@#2' Template: "#.@.?...+........."
3. N 51° 18.?+?',E 0° 11.@#6' Template: "..*+.@#.%..?......"
4. N 51° 18.?+%',E 0° 11.@#*' Template: "?#...+@..........."
5. N 51° 18.?+1',E 0° 11.@#6' Template: "....@............."

This is the key you will need to turn letters into digits (see step 3 below).

|A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z|
|-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-|
|2|7|1|0|8|6|0|9|9|3|4|8|9|3|1|7|6|8|5|8|4|2|5|6|2|5|

The position of the next landmark can be found in this way:

1. Arrange the words from the landmark in alphabetical order with no spaces between them.
   For example, if the words were "Roman burial ground" then the required string of letters would be "BURIALGROUNDROMAN".
2. Look at the template and extract the letters from the string corresponding to the code characters. The dots (".") in the template represent letters that do not need decoding. (The template may well be longer than the string of letters it decodes, but will not have code characters beyond the end of the string.)
   For example, if the string was "BURIALGROUNDROMAN" and the template was "...%..#...@*..?.+." then %=I, #=G, @=N, *=D, ?=M and +=N.
3. Turn the letters into digits using the decoding key above.
   In this example, %=I=9, #=G=0, @=N=3, *=D=0, ?=M=9 and +=N=3.
4. To find the position of the next landmark, determine the digit associated with each letter, and place that digit into the appropriate position in the in-complete co-ordinates.
   For example, if the incomplete co-ordinates were N 51° 18.?+%',E 0° 11.@#*' then the completed co-ordinates would be N 51° 18.939',E 0° 11.300'

To log the cache:

• Make sure you are using CAPITAL LETTERS for the code word.
• Put the code word in place of the "===" in this URL: http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk/===.html
  (If the code word were "XYZZY" then the URL would become http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk/XYZZY.html)
• go to the page that URL points to, and fill in the form you'll find there.
• Don't forget to add an entry to this cache page!

Have fun!

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Cache Logs

September 30 by asadavid (78 found) Found it. Great fun. We realised quite quickly what it was going to be based on, but we still had to do it in the order set out. [view this log]

June 21 by Sandra123 (966 found) Finally solved on a sunny sunday afternoon, boy did we make a meal of it! Two evenings, an afternoon, tons of scraps of paper and much head scratching! We really enjoyed the challenge though. Many thanks [view this log]

June 21 by 2nuttersfromtwkent (573 found) Best not ask how long this one took, but lets say several sessions later Sandra123 and i got there having got confused with one but having realised there was nothing confusing about it!!! Great fun, many thanks lazyleopard. [view this log]

February 1 by metal-bijou (1366 found) Failed today on the quick route with similar problems as the previous person. Will have to check if we were doing it right and then try again as the idea is great. Not posting as a DNF as it's going on the grude list to do another day. [view this log]

November 18, 2008 by LazyLeopard (192 found) Vg frrzf gurer ner abj fbzr nqqvgvbany jbeqf bs nggevohgvba ba fbzr bs gur ynaqznexf. Gurl'er n erprag nqqvgvba, naq fubhyq or vtaberq. (decrypt) [view this log]

Current time: 11/21/2009 11:51:31 PM
Last Updated: 10/1/2009 8:18:13 PM
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