CycloneSteve and the Deathly DNF
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UPDATE: 5/26/16 The cache is now back in a similar container that was originally here. It is no longer a fake road and the cache difficult should align with the 4.5 rating. The terrain rating is based on the hardest trail option and is easier if you park at the arena.
READ ME!!! The terrain rating is based on those who come from the north on the trail where "...Order of the Geocache" is and factoring in the winter trail condition. There is parking nearby for you to nab this one and if you do that, the terrain is closer to 2 in the winter and 1.5 in the warm season. You are looking for a "natural" container hidden in plain sight. The hint is a spoiler so only use as needed. Good luck!
Our heroes traveled west along the trail trying to find a way out. A thinner woods that once severed as a thin barrier between Riverside Street and the Mill Pond now seemed thick, dark, and of infinite depth.
“We really are trapped here,” said CycloneSteve frowning.
“You doubted his threat?” said Harry Potter.
“How can he be so strong?” asked Calador.
“Some wizards are very gifted. They say I am quite powerful but this is more the myth than legend,” said Harry Potter.
“Do you think he is still in the woods?” asked the Fisherman.
“He must be looking for the seventh and final relic, it is the hardest to find so even with a legion of frogs it will still take time,” said Harry.
Suddenly, the ground started shake. Ahead of them was Lord Moldywart in his giant frog form. He seemed to be flattening the earth around him while hundreds of frogs searched nearby.
“There he is! He is in his frog form so he won't be able to cast spelled,” said Harry.
The five of them approached the frog but they were spotted well before they could close in on a surprise attack.
“So the muggles have come to attack me. How foolish! I could eat you in one gulp, or stomp you under my body!” said Moldywart.
“Not today Moldywart! I, Harry Potter, will put and end to your evil ways for good!” said Harry as he extracted his wand.
“Oh? This is a surprise, an actual wizard. But you know not what you are up against boy,” said Lord Moldywart.
“Immobulus!” cried Harry but nothing happened.
“Did you really think I would go into my frog form without first casting an anti-magic spell?” said Moldywart.
“This can't be!” said Harry.
“Oh but it is my young wizard, you are as powerless as these muggles.”
“I think there is one thing I can do.”
“Do your worse.”
Raising his wand, Harry cried “Finite Hyperincantatum!”
Suddenly the woods lit up as the dark frog's magic faded.
“No! How could my magic be defeated by any spell?” said Moldywart.
“Every spell can be counted,” said Harry.
“Not if I find the last piece of my life force.”
“I will make sure you don't. Everyone, get into formation,” said Harry.
CycloneSteve, Calador, the Fisherman, and pvtplt172 formed a diamond shape around Harry Potter.
“This spell won't work unless you have magicians of all five elements,” balked Moldywart.
Harry smiled and said, “You must be unable to see as well in that giant body because we do have five wizards.”
Lord Moldywart had failed to notice pvtplt172 and suddenly realized that he too had wizards blood. “A fifth wizard? How can this be?”
“My family has lived in Massachusetts for centuries, we are descended from one of the real Salem witches,” explained pvtplt172.
“It matters not, your wizard blood is so diluted you will surely be unable to cast the sealing curse,” said Moldywart.
“We will see about that,” said Harry. “Everyone now as planned!”
CycloneSteve held his hands out and cried “Incendio” and to his surprised fire appeared before him.
Calador yelled “Deprimo” and the wind seemed to be at his command.
The Fisherman called upon water but using the spell “Aguamenti”.
Then pvtplt172 used a spelled called “Terramus” to shake the earth itself.
Finally, Harry Potter used “Electromium” to summon lighting.
“Fi...five elements! This cannot be! Frog minions attack!” shouted the dark lord.
Hundreds of frog of all shapes and sizes surged towards our heroes. Harry Potter remained calm and cast “Lumos Maximum” to produce a wall of blinding light that stunned Moldywart and his allies.
“Now Lord Moldywart, its time to seal away your powers!” said Harry Potter. In order, CycloneSteve and his allies called out their element spells. They Harry Potter ushered a long incantation that produced a massive Patronis.
“No! I will not be defeated” cried Lord Moldywart.
But the massive amount of elemental energy struck the dark frog. A bright light filled the woods. When it faded CycloneSteve found himself on the ground.
“What happened?” asked CycloneSteve.
Getting up, he looked around him. It was night but all appeared normal in the woods. He could see the road and structures nearby. He found Calador and pvtplt172 but the Fisherman, Harry Potter, and Lord Moldywart were gone.
“Did we win?” asked Calador.
“I think so,” said CycloneSteve.
“Where did the others go?” asked pvtplt172.
“I don't know but it looks like its over,” said CycloneSteve.
The three heroes looked up at the sky and wondered if any of this bizarre day was real.
A special shout out to Bill the Cat 89 who became the first geocacher to find all eight of my caches in this series including one FTF and two STFs!
FTF: pvtplt172
STF: Bill the Cat 89
3rd: 'Lil Cthulhu
4th: sloth96
5th: T13
CycloneSteve's Geocaches
1. GC2NRF5 Handycapable* (Micro/Indiana) ARCHIVED 2012
2. GC2Z82T Inbetween Things* (Micro/Ohio) ARCHIVED 2012
3. GC447XV Wii Would Like to Play (Mystery/New Hampshire) ARCHIVED 2013
4. GC48XFP CycloneSteve's 500th Find (Nano/Massachusetts) ARCHIVED 2013
5. GC4D2QG CycloneSteve's Grand TB Hotel (Large/New Hampshire) ARCHIVED 2015
6. GC4GTGD "V"ictory is Mine! (Small/New Hampshire)
7. GC4HBD7 CycloneSteve and the Wizard's Challenge (Micro/New Hampshire)
8. GC4HEDV CycloneSteve and the Geocacher's Stone (Other/New Hampshire)
9. GC4JWX7 CycloneSteve and the Chamber of Swag (Small/New Hampshire)
10. GC4MDE5 CycloneSteve and the Multi-Cache of Azbakam (Multi/New Hampshire)
11. GC4MDEM CycloneSteve and the Goblet of Water (Small/New Hampshire)
12. GC4MDF1 CycloneSteve and the Order of the Geocache (Small/New Hampshire)
13. GC4MDFT CycloneSteve and the FTF Prince (Micro/New Hampshire)
14. GC4MDGM CycloneSteve and the Deathly DNF (Other/New Hampshire)
*Co-Ownership with TyphoonRuth
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Additional Hints
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