Watching from the front
window, Tommy Wilson could hardly contain himself as the
postman pulled up in front of his house. Patience is not a
virtue for a 9 year old boy. It was hard for Tommy to sit in
front of that window for the past three weeks, waiting and
watching as the mailman place the usual stack of letters and
bills in the mailbox. “Come on, Come on,” he would say quietly
to himself each day as he waited for that special package to
come. Today, as if on cue the mailman reached inside another
mail bin and produced a plain cardboard box and placed it into
the mailbox. “It’s here! It’s here!” Tommy screamed as he
bolted out the front door making a beeline for the
mailbox.
It took him almost all summer to eat the twelve boxes of Crunchy
Cache Cereal and save up the $6.95 for postage and handling. But he
did it and now he was in possession of his very own pair of
Official Cache Man 3-D glasses. Now he could help Cache Man save
the world from the evil Doctor NoFinds (DNF for short) and win a
year’s supply of Cache Man’s, Crunchy Cache Cereal; at least
according to the Official Crunchy Cache Cereal Contest that aired
on the weekly TV series “The Adventures of Cache Man”.
“The Adventures of
Cache Man” television series take place in a fictional town in
the United States. The town hero is Cache Man. He gains his
strength through eating “Crunchy Cache Cereal,” in combination
with fruits and vegetables. Sugary foods make him ill and
unable to lead an active lifestyle. He runs around town saving
kids from predicaments and teaches them his simple message
about leading a happy, healthy and active lifestyle. The
children are kind-hearted and fun-loving, and each one
exemplifies a childhood foible that will sometimes get him or
her into trouble. If that were not enough, lurking in the
shadows is Dr. NoFinds, creating his own turmoil in the small
American town.
The antagonist of the show, Dr. NoFinds, is always trying to get
the kids to eat junk food and give up healthy outdoor activities
like geocaching. Dr. NoFinds is forever creating all sorts of plans
to undermine Cache Man and his legion of Cache Cadets, and
sometimes comes very close to winning. But in the end Cache Man
always manages to prevail and save the day with the help of his
Cache Cadet friends. Dr. NoFinds lives in a secret underground lair
with a network of underground tunnels encompassing the entire
earth. It is here that he often spies on families geocaching
through his periscope; moving caches as they get close to ground
zero.
Dr. NoFinds latest maniacal plot involves stealing the secret
formula for Crunchy Cache Cereal and replacing it with his own
heavily sugar-laced, non-nutritional cereal formula. With his plan
in place, outdoor caching activities have come to a standstill.
Cache Man’s legion of healthy caching kids have been reduced to
sugar-laden couch potatoes. And unknowingly, the parents of the
Cache Cadets have boycotted Cache Man and his products; driving him
and his unhealthy ideals out of their town. With the imminent loss
of Cache Man, the curtain closes on the last episode of “The
Adventures of Cache Man”, Dr. NoFinds appears on the television,
reveling in his victory….but wait…there is a brief bit of static on
the screen and the voice of Cache Man can be heard, “I need your
help Cache Cadets, we need to save the earth”. The sound of static
is heard again and the voice of Cache Man is gone.
Has Cache Man really disappeared? Is the world doomed
to an unhealthy lifestyle?
Tommy Wilson knew the answers to those questions. As the
President of his local chapter of Cache Cadets, he had received a
special message from Cache Man in the mail, two days after the last
episode aired. In the letter it detailed that Cache Man was trying
to locate the secret lair of Dr. NoFinds and needed the help of his
Cache Cadets to locate him. To aid them in their mission, Crunchy
Cache Cereal has offered a pair of Official Cache Man 3-D glasses
to Cache Cadets. The first Cache Cadet who finds the secret
location of Dr. NoFinds would win a year’s supply of Crunchy Cache
Cereal.
Donning his new official pair of Cache Man 3-D Glasses, Tommy
enters his
bedroom and begins searching
for Cache Man clues. With the 3-D glasses on he sees his room in a
whole new light and quickly discovers the secret word that will
unlock the mysterious message on the border of his 3-D glasses.
Your job, as a fellow Cache Cadet, is to find the secret word
hidden in Tommy’s room and decipher the scrambled message on the
border of the picture of Tommy's room. You do not need a pair of
3-D glasses to solve the puzzle. Good Luck Cadet, Cache Man is
counting on you.
Congratulations to Cache Cadet Donbadabon on FTF. Also
an honorable mention to Cache Cadet Gim&Me.