Xenophobia: The Barbarian Invasion Mystery Cache
braxtonolywa: My first cache that I placed has been muggled. I will set up a similar one in L.A. to commemorate my introduction to caching six years ago.
Xenophobia: The Barbarian Invasion
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The cache coordinates at the top of the page are wrong. Cache is not on this lot, use clues to get you on right path. Please have some educational fun and do a little brain work before you begin the physical and visual search. Cache is a snap tight with room for trade items and T.B.'s. This is my first cache drop so I hope ya'll enjoy.
THERE IS ONE EASY WAY TO SITE, DON'T BE SEEN GOING IN. DO NOT MOVE MOSS, SMALL STICKS, BUSHES, NO BUSHWHACKING.
We are witnessing the slow tide of the barbarians at our borders. The Westside has been invaded and they plan to sack our quiet little village. They pillage the last of our coins at redundant trading posts and replace our farms and trees with encroaching tent villages. There is no end to the invasion. The invading force has crushed Lacey and Tumwater and intends to do the same to us. Their chariots and belching warhorses are multiplying and filling up our lanes; they must be thwarted at all costs. If you listen closely at the cache site you can hear them speaking in strange tongues.
Please help with the resistance. Use your stealth, tracking skills, knowledge, logic, and strength to resist the tide.
Answer following ?’s
a.) Conan the Barbarian is also known as Conan the ___?
Conan the Mamluk = 45
Conan the Dervish = 48
Conan the Cimmerion = 47
Conan the Giant = 46
b.) Vandals sacked Rome in what year?
495 = 04
510 = 03
426 = 01
455 = 02
***PLEASE DON'T MOVE ANYTHING WHILE RETRIEVING CACHE****
c.) The Founder and general of the Il Khanate?
Mahdi = 86
Hulegu = 87
Dost Mohammad Khan = 88
Ayatollah Khan = 85
d.) The Crusaders on the 4th Crusade Sacked Constantinople in what year?
1204 = 9
1219 = 7
1200 = 4
1208 = 5
e.) The Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople on what mm/day/year?
12/07/1454 = 121
04/12/1456 = 123
06/06/1466 = 120
05/29/1453 = 122
f.) The British expedition into Afghanistan led by Eliphinstone was massacred in what year?
1857 = 6
1842 = 5
1871 = 9
2001 = 4
g.) The Mongols sacked Kiev in what year?
1294 = 8
1240 = 6
1214 = 2
1254 = 5
h.) During the Punic Wars, Rome sacked and burnt Carthage in what year?
146 = 55
168 = 51
139 = 49
218 = 57
i.) Roman Emperor Hadrian had a wall built to keep out which barbarians?
Gauls= 2
Huns= 6
Picts= 9
Starbucks= 7
Input answers to this formula:
N aa* bb. ccd
W eee* fg. hhi
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Thanks to you all. Congrats to Frisbee'r on FTF.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
5sg. bss tenff