This is the fifth cache in an ongoing
series, and will spark some friendly competition amongst
cachers across the entire GOWT region. The basic idea is
patterned on the First To Find Championship series of caches,
which has enjoyed a successful two-year run in the Houston area,
and which is now up to the 28th cache in the
series.
The premise is pretty
straightforward: the first finder of this cache can take this
custom-engraved FTF Pirate travel bug trophy with them to
enjoy for awhile — snapping pictures and gloating a bit along
the way, I would imagine:
There
are, however, some key stipulations:
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Within
30 days, the FTF cacher must hide a new cache, title it "FTF Pirate
#6," and place the trophy inside for the next lucky FTF cacher to
enjoy.
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The new cache must be hidden within a 100 mile
radius of Jackson, Tennessee, which seems like a reasonable
distance that will cover most of the area catered to by the
Geocachers of West
Tennessee organization.
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The
hider must mention the series in the cache description, and must
provide clear instructions so that the next winner of the trophy
will know what is expected of them. Feel free to cut-and-paste the
text from this description, if you'd like.
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Follow
the normal travel bug rules by retrieving the FTF Pirate trophy
from this cache and dropping it into the inventory of your new
cache hide (the travel bug tracking number is affixed to the back
of the trophy). And while it's permissible to carry the trophy to
events, and to otherwise show it off before moving it along to your
new cache hide, nobody but the actual FTF finders should log the
travel bug. The travel bug page will thus serve as a handy record
of everyone who has nabbed FTF on one or more of the caches in the
series.
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Have
fun and be creative on your new hide!
Whoever grabs the trophy next time around will do
likewise, and so on ad infinitum. The trophy is six inches tall, so
it should fit in most regular-size cache containers, including
small ammo cans and medium or larger
Lock-n-Locks.
THE CACHE
Practitioners of Voodoo believe that nothing
and no event has a life of its own, thus, "vous deux", you two, you
too. The universe is all one. Each thing affects something else.
Many spiritualists agree that we are not separate, we all serve as
parts of one. So, in essence, what you do unto another, you do unto
yourself, because you ARE the other. Voodoo. View you. We are
mirrors of each others souls.
By poking a little fun at pirates and voodoo, one
spirit - known as “The Buzzard” - noticed us (remember, in voodoo
everything affects everything else). We all could tell something
was going on by unusual little things happening in each of our
lives. During a consultation with Sister Sarah on Poplar Avenue,
she told us the cause... “The Buzzard” wanted us to do
something.
“The Buzzard,” an infamous pirate whose real name
was Oliver le Vasseur, terrorized merchant vessels in the Indian
Ocean in the early 1700's. Before he was hung in 1730 he dropped
documents with clues as to where his treasure was buried. His dying
words were “Find my treasure, he who can!” No one
has.
To appease "The Buzzard" and rid us of the
voodoo, Sister Sarah instructed us to hide this cache somewhere to
“honor” this bloodthirsty pirate. We have done so, hiding the cache
near Oliver Creek in Shelby County. Now all you have to do is “Find
the cache, she/he who can!”
