Obscure Songs I Like: A series of caches dedicated to
songs you probably haven't heard of, by obscure people. Usually the
music is available for you to hear for free on the Internet. It's
probably not actually necessary to have heard the song to find the
cache, but it won't hurt. In some cases, the cache location
reflects the song... in other cases, this is less so.
For this cache, you will need information from the song
to find the cache, so you'll probably want to listen to it. You can
hear Jonathan Coulton performing this obscure song at YouTube (with a cartoony video), or at YouTube (performed live), or find lyrics and guitar
tabs for the song at his website. When solving the puzzle, use the
information from the song itself, not from any particular video or
image. It's the song that counts.
To actually find the cache you do not need to go to the point
given in the coordinates above. Indeed, DO NOT GO THERE, as
it is private property. Instead, compute two numbers as
follows:
Take the first word that the robot says, and
compute a number from it by adding together the numerical values of
all the letters in it, as A=1, Z=26. For example, if the word was
"XMAS" then the value would be 24 + 13 + 1 + 19 = 57. But the word
is something else, so compute the correct value instead. Then
multiply that number by the number of letters in the color of
Santa's glowing eyes. Subtract the product you just
computed from the lowest digits of the north coordinate as given
above.
West: Take the second word that the robot
says and compute a numerical value in the same manner as
before, but this time don't multiply it by anything. Subtract that
value from the lowest digits of the west coordinate as given
above.
The above computation should take you to the location of a
microcache, hidden in a very customary manner.
The area is very busy during business hours... the cache is
probably a drive-up if done late in the evening, but,
especially during business hours, take appropriate
precautions not to give away the location of the cache to muggles.
You are in the direct line-of-sight of several muggles if you are
finding this cache during the day, so come at off-hours for a much
easier time. Regardless of this warning, the cache is accessible
24/7; just be stealthy, or you'll be found bad, and you
don't want that.
"... Not everybody's good but everyone
tries...."