The Center of the Realm Mystery Cache
-
Difficulty:
-
-
Terrain:
-
Size: 
(regular)
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
This is the 4th in the series about the Forest Beings. The listed coordinates are for the trail head and parking. You must solve the code to find the cache.
Be sure to break the code before heading for stage two. Or you may head in the wrong direction.
Before I give you any details about this cache I would like to tell you a little about the inhabitants of the Realm.
Long ago, before the English settled here, before the Wampanoag, Narragansett and the Nipmucks came into this land there were the Forest Beings. Giant in stature, standing almost eight feet tall, a race that escaped the last great extinction had colonized what is now New England. According to their own elfin prophecy any contact with a race other that theirs would lead to the end of their culture. So upon this they avoided any contact with the outside world. As their isolation increased, and the realm became smaller and smaller, so did they. With each new generation they grew smaller than the one that had lived before. At about the time when European fishing vessels began visiting the shores of the realm the Forest Beings averaged about four feet in height. Although not immortal disease and sickness were unheard of. All that changed when the early fisherman set foot on this continent. Carrying with them germs from a foreign land all the inhabitants of this land were stricken. First the proud Wampanoag nation fell victim loosing eighty per cent of the population. The other native tribes fared no better. The losses among the beings of the realm were much worse, loosing ninety-nine percent of all in the realm. The ancient prophecy had come true. The remaining beings banded together further increasing their isolation and dwindling size. When they had become no taller than one foot high a curious thing began to happen. The last of these beings started to manifest strange extraordinary powers. The first power exhibited was the ability to become weightless. Using this ability they were able to float among the treetops and drift with the slightest breeze. The next power to manifest itself was that of invisibility. With the two combined abilities the beings were now able to travel great distances across the land and avoid detection form any human which they may encounter. This also allows the beings to live in secret in the Center of the Realm and to move their caches without detection. The following is a secret code which will guide you on your quest to find the cache of The Center of the Realm. But beware this is literally no walk in the park.
DQLNQ OKOVW WUQTX BAODQ TNYCF UTVQC
IWBKG RTYON OMKKZ AWMUW ISAVD VMMKC
AOAVG MQSJX HODGM ZTMTK NMDKF YYKEN
DZMGW WJHXF IOIPC SKAOZ ABWWR HDSIU
GOWAC OAOHG SAYCH AYKSW IFAFH GGAME
THLAW GEMEM HVDIK MTBFV DDITN WMEHC
WWUCI OCUDW IA
To begin your quest travel to the listed coordinates and start down the trail. Travel along by car or mountain bike, the road is long but passable for the average car.This is where you will find stage one N41*45.736 W071*02.678. Travel through the dark zone until you come to the edge of the Realm of Light. Here you will find stage two. Once you have your final task at hand you’ll pass through the Forest of few trees, getting close to your goal let your golden compass point the way. There is no bushwhacking! Like the Miners from the Tunnel of treasure, who have sent you the secret code, you will need endurance to complete this quest. Patience will be helpful but endurance is the key as this is over two miles one way. Few will attempt this quest and fewer still will complete it those that do will certainly have a tail to tell.
The FTF will get a very extraordinary prize, the knowledge of the night sky, trackable at geocaching.com. Good luck, watch out for dirt bikes along the way and enjoy the hunt.
Congratulations to N1EMQ for the FTF.I made the stages and the final fairly easy to find, I felt the cache as a whole was challenging enough without a DNF at the end.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Svefg fgntr-- ubyr ng obggbz bs n gerr. 2aq fgntr--- V'ir hfrq guvf zrgubq orsber.