There is much that you do not
know. You see a world in danger: hurricanes lay waste the
land; famine, wars and pestilence sweep the planet; mankind
brings death and destruction upon itself: the Earth
approaches the End of Days.
Who has caused this? Why, in the face
of such evidence, does no government take action to save the planet
and human civilisation? Global warming will destroy you; the air is
thick with pollution; the interglacial period in which you live is
coming to an end and Europe will be covered by an ice-sheet a mile
thick. A death of heat and ice awaits you… or worse:
IMPERIUM.cache is in 4 parts and covers at least 2 miles
from car park to car park in Marbury Country Park. However, be
prepared for it to take a while to find all of the parts! There is
a parking fee of £1 for 3 hours and £1.50 all day for the car park,
which is located at the coordinates at the top of the listing. The
main carpark is open from 9am until 8pm from April to September and
until 5pm the rest of the year. There are other parking spaces just
outside the barriers which can be used at all times. Some of the
stages are near water. Please take care, especially if children are
with you. There is no need to go in the water at any point! Also,
please do not untie any knots at any of the stages- it is not
necessary to do so.
Inside each cache you will find not only the coordinates for the
subsequent stage, but also which numbered hint to use. You will
notice that there are more hints than stages, as not all the hints
are used. The first hint to use is number 1.
Nice Niche
On 21st March, 2008, I made this stage easier by removing the
puzzle you previously had to do at home. See how kind I am. The
cache is a black geocaching small metal micro container at the
coordinates of the cache listing. Inside the container you will
find the coordinates forYou are betrayed.
Yet no-one acts, because the people who rule you do not sit in
London, Brussels or even Washington. The true masters of your fate
use the puppet governments that you elect to do their
bidding.
Your masters are
IMPERIUM.
For centuries, IMPERIUM has controlled
a subterranean city far beneath the Atlantic. They live in luxury
there as they suck the Earth dry. All the ills of the world are
caused by them; and as the Earth cries out on the cusp of the
apocalypse, they take more: safe in their infernal world. If you
could see what I have seen you would not doubt me; there are things
in that place beyond your dreams and others you have only seen in
nightmares.
In the holy text
it is written: “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a
beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns”. I
have seen that beast; I have seen the seven rulers and the ten
armies of IMPERIUM.the second stage:
Box of Tricks
The cache is a box hidden inside an ammo box . You must work out
how to open the box to get the coordinates for “The Invisible
Cache” and take something that you will need to
openBut The Beast needs fuel to
sustain its greed; a constant supply of people to do its
bidding. It takes them from the surface and works them as
slaves, with no hope and no future but to serve
IMPERIUM.
It seeks the strong and the intelligent
and it has devious ways to select its targets. The tales are many,
but I give you one: in 1980 a book was published called Masquerade.
It contained a complex puzzle, whose solution led to a golden hare
buried in a field. For two years, thousands of people tried to find
the hare, before a man named Ken Thomas succeeded. If you try to
find Ken Thomas today, you will fail. IMPERIUM disseminated
disinformation that “Ken Thomas” was a pseudonym for a man called
Dugald
Thompson. And even as they act out their evil deeds they laugh
at mankind: Dugald Thompson is an anagram of “Lop dud ghost man”.
But for Ken Thomas there is no laughter: they came for him like
thieves in the night and today he lives in a sunless world, a
servant of IMPERIUM.
And the abductions do not stop with
humans. They seek the best of the animal world, too. Shergar was
the stallion that represented the pinnacle of equine grace. In
February 1983, he was abducted by IMPERIUM from a stud in
County Kildare. Until his death in 1989, he lived a desperate
life, racing for the pleasure of a beings without compassion, a
thousand fathoms beneath the sea.
Now, as the World nears the End of
Days, they have become more selective. The challenges they face
demand a new type of person. They seek the fittest and the most
intelligent of the surface dwellers.that cache.
Please make sure that everything is put back inside the box and
it is reassembled correctly when you have finished.
The Invisible Cache
The coordinates for this stage were amended on 25.10.06. The cache
is a box inside a plastic container in a camo bag. Inside you will
find the coordinates for the last stage.
I have no idea what isAnd now I speak
directly to you, members of the geocaching community. You sit at
your computer, in the cross hairs of their sights. They have
studied genetic databases that show that geocachers are the
forerunners of a new breed of homo sapiens: a super race. And
this makes them both afraid and excited. They fear that the surface
dwellers will be led in resistance by this new people… but they
also crave you for their slaves.
Now, within your ranks, they seek the
best of the best. They will place puzzle caches across the World
and those that succeed in finding them will be taken to a place
where no satellite signal can penetrate…
A geocacher amongst you is IMPERIUM. He
is part of the multi-headed beast. Resist him! Do not let the
ancient prophecies come true! YOU MUST NOT ATTEMPT THIS CACHE. If
you find it, all hope will be gone. Listen for the creak of the
floorboard; watch out for the figure in the shadows; fear the icy
fingers on your back. It may be in a day, a month or a year, but
one day they will surely come for you; one day you will know
IMPERIUM.
I confess: all this is known to me
because I was IMPERIUM. Before my sight was lost in that
Mycenean Labyrinth , I craved power above my own existence. Now
I have held the jyotirmaya I have
known power beyond comprehension and I must repent. I give it up…
and with it my life.
That which I have foreseen since that
day in Mycenae comes to pass. I am tired. The undiscover’d country
awaits me. Goodbye, my faithful students.
And as sleep comes, fear does also. I
can no longer see the future... The power has left me… I hear the
door open… It is finished and the prophesy is fulfilled... I can
sense that it's not him, but a woman... and, although I am blind, I
know that upon her forehead is a name written, MYSTERY,
BAgoing on with this listing. I’ve had a word with the
powers that be at geocaching.com, but it’s a type of hacking
they’ve not encountered before and they can’t delete it and I can’t
seem to edit the whole text. At least this time he has been unable
to remove the entire page.
I don’t need to tell you that Mr Nomine’s allegations are
complete nonsense, of course. He is clearly a very disturbed
person, possibly schizophrenic with paranoid delusions. Please do
not be concerned about doing this cache. There is absolutely
nothing to worry about.
So, back to the last stage:
The Deep
The cache is in a small black box.
I hope you enjoy this cache and that Mr Nomine’s mad ramblings
don’t put you off. To me geocaching is about getting out, having
fun and especially meeting new people. Enjoy! I’m sure we’ll meet
up before long :).
BCI
