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B08: OH! That One! Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 4/13/2008
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

Hidden as part of the Blitz 2008. It only looks overwhelming. NOTE: There is a backdoor shortcut (hint 1st hi-light and last paragraph of story) that will allow you to skip the visits to the 15 physical cache locations if you so choose which turns it almost into a straight goto. One of the caches has been archived, email us if you have problems digging up the archive or can't remember. Most of you will take the easy way through this puzzle and archived caches won't matter.

B08: OH! That One!

although this story is definitely full of it, you will learn some local cachers handles, the puzzle gathering and solving are relatively easy, it is doubtful that many of you were this observant your first time through. you will be able to work your way through this maze of bs and reach your final destination by reading through the non-bs The_Draglings have encrypted in their selective past geocaching.com cache logs and by following the instructions we have left for you there and doing the calculations at each step. this is sure to bring you to some new caches or back down memory lane and enable you to revisit some beautiful and cool cache locations. be sure to leave yourselves lots of time, it could take a couple of hours, more if you haven't solved some of the previous puzzle caches. the final may prove challenging for the strong and forceful. lobbing for calm and patience will be the key. you may need a picnic basket and some company for this sunday drive. please be sure to put everything back to ensure the next cacher has just as much fun. The final location is not for the weak and meek a little bushwhacking through a bunny trail is involved for the last 20m.


when you first came Cruisin' into Victoria your daydreams floated on the brieze and you felt all a buzzle with the excitement of what's to come. with a skip in your step and energy abound dragling up the rear was not what you had planned for the day, you were going to do this by the numbers. the first stop on your whirl wind caching tour was a visit to the Fort Victoria: A TB Stronghold, where the geoknights were standing on guard, the glare of white shoes and lanyards blinding many a muggle. after this a cuppa java was in order and to pick up a copy of your favorite chinatown newsletter. you also felt it was time to throw away that rogue towel you'd been dragging around with you since you went overboard at sea.

on the trip over, on board the celebrity cruise ship, you enjoyed the styling’s of whitebear and bcrockcrawler performing their duet of show tunes, however, you enjoyed xstitcher, bmxer and jas and joan even more, cheering them on waving knitted placards above their heads frantically in a crazed fan way.

a d-tour out ad0or you wondered Whats Cooking? down at the harbour but settled for some delicious Cold Hard Fruit with a little ice cream, syrup and a cherry on top and took in some gorgeous views of the land yachters. a rather pregnant woman thinker bell was preparing brunch on a deck and was telling her husband bleuet, the baby's name will have to be little stinker as it came to little sneezer in a dream during her afternoon nap. you especially liked the ancient antique fishing boat called cridge code, she had just arrived from duncan for maintenance, as it had ran aground. the captain sdkonkle looking kinda like a kiwibirdman with a stern look on his face was peering out to sea, with his loyal parent parrot perched on his shoulder and swatting a pesky dragonfly fluttering around his head. he totally looked prepared to go down with his ship, as a playful crafty otter leapt through the one wee tiny gaping hole as the sheesh sound of warm wind whipped through her gunnels. happy viking was looking busy and ready to bail as the hysterical cook xterracacher came up from below clanging pots wondering what was happening. first mate 1dan reassured the captain he'll be fishing for charbs in no time and that wee hole will look like a porthole within the hour.

after reading all the Plaques and Stones around the parliament buildings with viguy and porch lizard, the sole seeker inside of you was Miles Away and not very good company with the pondering of life but never the less bigairshane snapped you out of it and you all managed to get your pics up on the netwerk at BigWave Dave's Dallas at Cook GeoCam put up by netwizard before the mush room in your brain filled with doom and gloom. all this before breakfast where you ate some berries n fruit, over cooked Scrabmled Eggs and a burnt spud at m in 3d’s favourite restaurant. as a boisterous wrooster crowed in the background, you then remembered nlind and his phaonmneal pwoer of the haumn mind! It was time to think about walking off that lumbo-tire.

tumbling down the rocks to your squirrelly death, splitting boinking and bruisin' the little treasures was not one of the high points of your day as it demanded being rescued by the kfwb team who located you by gps at the bottom of the harrowing huntcliff void and evacuated you for your delicate Operation at the Western Command centre. performed with precision and accuracy within 10 metres by the skilful surgeons geohackers and wingsaber but you picked yourself up and you dusted yourself off with the help of the candy striper volunteers mikeyc and dvixen as diamond mom gave you her reassuring cuddles that you would live through this to tell the tale.

you watched the two Crows Stop and Smell The Roses and took the moment to catch your breath. as you enjoyed your deep calm, it was interupted by the explosive x-treme gps team. Curious (George) jumped out of the humvee opening the door for the recently rescued but adventurous kc who had scaled a 500 foot high rock cliff, in street shoes no less, with no light. luckily his bycycle had reflectors and was spotted easily in the dark of night with their helicopter. the landsharkz never did find him but their new l.e.d. caps were spotted in the depths of the forest from the chopper as coast2coast2coast and dloubert were busy stringing up christmas lights throughout the bush preparing for any witching hour jrav was scheming. krisandtim were way too busy tipping their bottles to be of any help at all. After the untangling of the harnesses, putting the shoes back on and tossing out the bicycle, you suggested everyone head off to Where The Poets Gather to perhaps end their evening in a little gentler way, so you tagged along.

meanwhile at the duck pond you noticed that cache crop was in full bloom with the nudiebums and g-spotter dancing in the daisies, she was descending on mr. cache crop and obviously flirting with danger. recently back from their trip to san d'eggo they were busy Gyrating Cache in their pockets making the ducks think they'd found the mother lode but creakyclanchris and barbershop_jeff happened along with their trusty relic hound, astromut and 2fidoes distrupting the fun and games chasing and harassing the ducks. they soon called in the dog_cachers to stop these silly youthful games.

meanwhile it was roswell, eljayel, col the cyberchasers and the pracademics that checked their trusty brother Roswell's Logbook for the answer as to how to cut through all this bs but only found ahh snake. by this time the dogs had died in the hot cars and they'd all run out of little ink stars from The Artist's Cache to put on the page. but hey they all knew it was a 4gone conclusion that amandazon the great would be along shortly in her tight little geotards to help them all out once she'd finished her yoga demonstration at basketball central, where she was performing an ode to outward bound. the draglings had contacted mtn-man and received approval to gather the cachers in their lawn chairs to make this a splendiferous mega event. score cards and a huge trophy were handed out and we all stood on guard for thee while ickster, tjamezz and the pdlizard trio rocked the house down with their medley of caching tunes.

after the mind blowing demonstration where everyone seemed to have such an exciting and exhilarating time, you'd had enough and stumbled back to the ship only to discover your ship had already sailed, doingitoldschool and island hunter were waving back at you from the deck, you'd have to wait for your ship to come in. with a deep sigh shoulders down your caching papers slipped from your fingers and fell to the ground as you went weak in the knees. the decision was made, you would not swim for it, in disbelief and horror you knew you were forced to take your chances and remain in victoria for yet another day of caching with your new found weird and wonderful caching friends, all the while pondering that maybe you should have taken the advice of the paconlacellers and done Dragling Up The Rear with dandysaan's in the first place.

the end!

this story is based on pure 100% bogus bs facts, no cachers nicknames were changed or withheld to protect their innocence. no animals were injured. if you find truth in this story please keep it to yourself, no one need know. end of story!

Puzzle Maze
(keep adding together til single digit ex. 3968 = 3+9+6+8=26=2+6=8)



#1 - _ _ _ _ ADD EACH TOGETHER = __
#2 - _ _ _    ADD EACH TOGETHER = __
#3 - _ _ _ _ ADD EACH TOGETHER = __
#4 - _ _ _    ADD EACH TOGETHER = __
#5 - _ _ _ _ ADD EACH TOGETHER = __
#6 - _ _ _ _ ADD EACH TOGETHER = __
#7 - _ _ _ _ ADD EACH TOGETHER = __


TAKE THE FIRST 7 NUMBERS SUBTRACT 3803248

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ - 3803248 = N _ _  _ _. _ _ _



TAKE THE NEXT 8 NUMBERS SUBTRACT 71376717

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - 71376717 = W _ _ _  _ _. _ _ _

  #8 - _ _ _ _ _ ADD EACH TOGETHER = __
  #9 - __............................................=__
#10 - __............................................=__
#11 - _ _ _ _    ADD EACH TOGETHER = __
#12 - __ ...........................................=__
#13 - __ ...........................................=__
#14 - _ _          ADD EACH TOGETHER = __
#15 - _ _ _       ADD EACH TOGETHER = __

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Congratulations... Bleuet, Thinker Bell & Little Sneezer were First-to-Find this Cache on April 18, 2008
IS

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: Pncf Uvqr: lrf, va gurer, znxr yvxr n ohaal. haqre fznyy snyyra gerr pbirerq va ivarf, lbh jvyy haqrefgnaq jul fbba.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)