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Background
The Matrix Series have been
developed as fun caches to exercise your grey matter as you while
away the long dark evenings. The three caches can be completed
individually, but there maybe some assistance in an earlier cache,
so enter into the spirit and complete each in turn. This second
cache should have you thinking more deeply and pure logic may not
be enough. Once again cryptic information can be found in the
Dialogue, but much more useful information will come to those who
discovered the Matrix Code. This time around the web will be of
limited help but maybe of use to those without many years of coding
experience.
Obviously the cache is not
placed at the co-ordinates above but mysterious help from the ether
should guide you to an alternative location where you could leave
your cachemobile this time around. No short cuts please from the
co-ords above. By the way, many have succeeded in solving the Code
without resorting to bribery, unfortunately.
The
Plot
The Matrix Code told the story
of Neo, a computer programmer that earned extras cash by hacking
and creating devious codes. He discovers that the whole world is an
illusion created by sentient machines that actual keep the human
race in a coma like state to generate electricity. What we perceive
as reality is nothing more than an elaborate caching game sent to
screw with our minds. As the second instalment of this trilogy
begins there are a quarter of a million people freed from their
forced sleep and living in a subterranean world, looking for
caches.
The machines have discovered
the location of their refuge and within 36 hours they will have
bored through the walls to take away their GPSr’s. Neo, while still
learning how to deal with his newly discovered powers and
popularity, anxiously awaits word from the Oracle on what his next
step should be. Only Neo, the One, can save mankind by providing
clues to the next cache.
Morpheus is also waiting for
contact from the Oracle and defiantly defends his actions to a
frightened series of cachers. Trinity struggles with the conflict
between her commitment to oppose the machines and her love for Neo.
The apocalypse is only hours away and no one is sure if the cachers
have the ability to discover the truth of the Matrix
Reloaded.
The
Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded is found in a camouflaged container designed
to blend in with its surroundings, only its lid will move.
Please take care where you search, no tools are required and the
cache should be obvious when you see it. If you have solved the
Matrix Code but not logged the find, you can get the additional
clues by providing the co-ordinates to SargeNI.
When you discover this cache
further mysterious clues will appear to assist you on the final
step along the road to the ultimate goal.
The
Dialogue
Morpheus: The machines of the
“construct” have now discovered our Code, but fortunately the QBFx
alias Quickbownfox achieved the First To Find before all was
lost.
Neo:
That Code is now of little use in keeping our location of the next
cache a secret from teh machines anymore.
Trinity:
The machines have a control of all our current technology. How can
we let the cachers know the next location in their
mission?
Neo:
We need something a bit more visual with less logic, so the
machines analytical minds will be confused.
Morpheus:
We should dig out some of our old technology to transmit the next
location to our caching friends.
Neo:
Yes – we could utilise that old Wyse 60 terminal, sitting up there
on the self covered in dust, to send the co-ordinates. We could
disguised them in a seial message sent over a RS232 link to the
web.
Trinity:
That’s great, but does the terminal still work and can you remember
how to formulate that type of message.
Morpheus:
No problem. The last time I use that old baby it was perfect except
it sent a # instead of one of the letters and refused completely to
send one of the other characters’.
Neo:
Let’s see it in action Morpheus. Yes that’s great; the ones with
the knowledge will see the missing character immediately and
replace it to display the co-ordinates.
Morpheus:
There the co-ordinates are embedded in the message and the
transmission is sent.
Trinity:
Here hoping the FTF comes quickly. |