There are five caches in the Forest Beings series, not counting
this one. GC1FQWH, GC1DJBE, GC1D7DT, GC1CZRE and GC1CZQN. This is
the Forest Beings’ Challenge, as such a knowledge of all the other
cache locations is essential to completing this one. To get to your
starting location you’ll have to do a little math. Of the five
caches in this series you must take the last three numbers of each
of the FINAL locations and add them together. For the north
coordinate you will than subtract 2149. For the west coordinate you
will subtract 1700. The resulting numbers will be substituted as
follows N41*46.--- and W071*02.---. This will take you to the
Council Tree. Be sure to figure north and west separately.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
Now that you have your starting destination you must decrypt the
message that the Forest Beings have sent to you, you will not be
able to proceed without the information it contains. When the
Forest Beings hid their secret treasure they felt it was a very
secure location. But shortly after information about the treasure
was leaked outlanders began a furious search for it’s location.
Leaving not a single square inch of ground untouched the outlanders
searched, hour after hour. All the while the guardians watched.
After some time when darkness began to fall the outlanders became
fatigued and gave up the search vowing to return at first light. As
the outlanders departed the ever watchful guardians reported the
events to the elders of the beings. Knowing that it was only a
matter of time before the treasure was discovered the Forest Beings
crept in under cover of darkness and removed all of the sacred
artifacts. It’s my understanding that these treasures will be found
at the end of this challenge. My contact among the beings has been
very tight lipped about the encrypted message and will not reveal
the key. All I know is that it has something to do with the
guardians. If you are intuitive and skilled enough to decrypt the
message and find stage one than it is recommended that you exit the
Realm and travel by machine to the Ridge Hill Reserve parking lot
on Collins Corner Road to search for your next location. Here is
the message sent to you by the Forest Beings.
QXEX RII IODV APDFOCLAQ DXE NMJM KISBIED YXTE FFY
LPDEVPFONVT JCK AEE VMIEQLX JNNM EXS STSAPIVS DXKQFYYCVRE ZACH AEE
IMNYT RIV XMYNQVQF OFZ JEMS YTV OGXB YK IFEQAVCH FM NUIP
MJALWNVVM
Congratulations to cale115 and jgmego115 for a well deserved
FTF