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ENGLISH TRANSLATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE
TEXT!
GELISTETE KOORDINATEN SIND
WILLKÜRLICH!
Da ich ein großer Fan des
Point-and-Click-Adventure-Games „DAY OF THE TENTACLE“
aus dem Jahre 1993 bin, wollte ich einmal ein Rätselcache dazu
machen, um auch anderen Leuten das Spiel näher zu
bringen.
Die Handlung ist recht simpel:
Purpurtentakel (ein Tentakelmonster ohne Arme) trinkt Giftmüll.
Dadurch wachsen ihm plötzlich Arme, und
er will die Welt erobern. Grüntentakel, der eigentlich ein netter
Kerl ist, holt drei Freunde – Bernard, Hoagie und Laverne - zu Hilfe, um Purpurtentakel zu
stoppen. Aber es ist bereits zu spät.
Darum bleibt nichts anderes
übrig als mittels Zeitmaschine von Dr. Fred Edison in die
Vergangenheit zu reisen, und den Giftmüllhahn zu stopfen. Doch die
Maschine hat einen Defekt und während einer im Jetzt bleibt, reisen
die anderen beiden in Zukunft und Vergangenheit (die Zeit der
Gründerväter der USA).
Mehr will ich aber garnicht dazu verraten – probiert das Spiel
einfach selber aus ;)…
Hier mal einpaar Fragen, die am besten durch eigenes Spielen
beantwortet werden können ;)… Oder ihr kennt vielleicht wen,
der es schon gespielt hat – war ja sehr populär? Reine
Internetrecherche könnte bei ein oder zwei Fragen schwierig
werden… Ist aber auch bei geschickter Suche möglich –
ich habs erfolgreich auch auf diese Art
und Weise probiert ;)!
A. Von welchem Tier wird
Grüntentakels Nachricht überbracht?
HAMSTER = 0 …..
PFERD = 1 ….. PELIKAN = 2 ….. TENTAKELHUND = 3
B. Womit holt man die
Plastikkotze von der Decke?
BRECHSTANGE = 0
….. SKALPEL = 1 ….. ROCKMUSIK = 2 …..
SCHERZZIGARETTE = 3
C. Woraus macht sich
Purpurtentakel ein Menschenkostüm?
JOHN HANCOCKS DECKE = 0
….. AMERIKANISCHE FLAGGE = 1 ….. ANZUG DER MUMIE = 2
….. ES GIBT KEIN MENSCHENKOSTÜM IM SPIEL = 3
D. Was ist auf der Briefmarke
abgebildet, die Bernard von Ed Edison klaut?
AMERIKANISCHER PRÄSIDENT
= 0 ….. PFERD = 1 ….. BERG = 2 ….. INDIANA
JONES = 3
E. Welchen Gegenstand gibt es
im Spiel nicht?
ENTKOFFEINIERTER KAFFEE =
0 ….. TIPP-EX = 1 ….. KOPFSCHMERZTABLETTE = 2
….. GABEL = 3
F. Was ist im Nachspann zu
sehen?
PURPURTENTAKEL SCHWÖRT
RACHE = 0 ….. GRÜNTENTAKEL SPIELT
MIT SEINER BAND „GT UND DIE SAUGNÄPFE“ = 1
….. DIE AMERIKANISCHE FLAGGE = 2
….. EIN HAMSTER = 3
Das Ziel ist dann
bei:
N 48°
5(3-F).(6-C-B)(E+F)(9-C)‘
E 13°
0(A+D).(A+B-E)(B)(C+D)‘
Und die
Bonuszahl im Logbuch notieren!
Hier das Ergebnis
kontrollieren:
GEOCHECKER
The coordinates in the listing are not the correct
ones!
I am a fan of the great, funny and surprising
Point-and-Click-Adventure-Game „DAY OF THE
TENTACLE“ from 1993, so I created
this Mystery-Cache to present this game to others.
The plot (copied from
Wikipedia):
The game, which takes place five years after
Maniac Mansion, opens with Purple Tentacle becoming exposed to
toxic waste spewing from Dr. Fred Edison's mansion. The toxic waste
isn't the by-product of any experiment, it's a device designed
specifically to pump toxic sludge out of the building, as it is all
the rage with mad scientists lately. Purple's ingestion of it
results in him growing a pair of flipper-like arms, vastly
increased intelligence, and acquiring a thirst for global
domination. Dr. Fred catches Purple Tentacle, as well as the
friendly, non-evil Green Tentacle, and keeps them both in his
basement before deciding that he will euthanize them. That evening,
Green Tentacle sends a plea of help to his old friend Bernard
Bernoulli — a stereotypical nerd and character from the first
game — who heads off to the mansion to rescue him,
accompanied by his friends, Laverne, a slightly psychotic medical
student, and Hoagie, a laid-back heavy metal roadie. Bernard frees
Green and Purple, only for Purple to inform him of his plans of
world domination and resume his conquering of the Earth. Since he
can't figure out a way to stop Purple now that he's begun his mad
quest, Dr. Edison attempts to send the three friends back in time
to 'yesterday' using his time machine, which consists of a central
unit made out of an old car and three personal travel units called
"Chron-o-Johns", made from portable
toilets. By doing so, they can turn off the sludge machine which
produced the toxic waste so that Purple never ingests the waste in
the first place, hence pre-emptively
stopping him from taking over the world. However, because Dr.
Edison has used an imitation diamond as the power source, the
machine fails, sending Hoagie 200 years in the past, where he
learns that the mansion was the setting for the creation of the
United States Constitution, and Laverne 200 years in the future to
a Tentacle-controlled world where humans are treated as pets and
Purple is revered as a hero, while Bernard remains in the present.
Dr. Edison tasks Bernard with finding a real diamond to power the
time machine to return his friends to the present so that they can
try to travel to yesterday once again, while informing Hoagie and
Laverne through the Chron-o-John that
they must find power sources for their own units in order to bring
them back. Fortunately for all involved (especially Hoagie, who has
been sent back to before electricity was available), the three can
send small objects back and forth in time through the Chron-o-Johns in order to complete these
tasks.
Here are
some questions, you can answer by
Google-searching or by playing the game ;).
A. Which animal brings Dr. Edisons letter to Bernard?
HAMSTER =
0 ….. HORSE = 1 ….. PELICAN = 2 ….. TENTACLE
DOG = 3
B. What do you need to get the fake barf from the
ceiling?
CROWBAR =
0 ….. SCALPEL = 1 ….. ROCK-MUSIC = 2 ….. FAKE
CIGARETTE = 3
C. What does Purple use to create a human
costume?
JOHN
HANCOCKS COVER= 0 ….. AMERICAN FLAG= 1 ….. SUIT OF
THE MUMMY = 2 ….. THERE IS NO HUMAN COSTUME IN THE GAME =
3
D. What can you see on the postage stamp, Bernard
is stealing from Ed Edison?
AMERICAN
PRESIDENT = 0 ….. HORSE = 1 ….. MOUNTAIN = 2
….. INDIANA JONES = 3
E. Which object does not exist in the
game?
DECAF
COFFEE = 0 ….. BOOBOO-B-GONE = 1 ….. ASPIRIN = 2
….. FORK = 3
F. What can you see on the final
credits?
PURPLE
PROMISES TO COME BACK = 0 ….. GREEN IS PLAYING WITH HIS BAND
= 1 ….. AMERICAN FLAG = 2 ….. A HAMSTER =
3
There you
can find the Cache:
N 48°
5(3-F).(6-C-B)(E+F)(9-C)‘
E 13°
0(A+D).(A+B-E)(B)(C+D)‘
And note the Bonus-number!
Check
your calculation here:
GEOCHECKER