Time Travel Multi-Cache
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Do you remember the Time Machine of H.G. Wells?
Our time travel starts in front of one of the biggest department stores from the center of Bucharest. This place looks exactly like any other shopping center from any western country: advertisement, fast food, shining lights, huge high-tech screens and so on.
First check the opening hours of McDonald's. What hour do they open on Tuesday morning? This is A.
And now we will start the fantastic machine of Mr. Wells. Go to WP2:
WP2
N 44 25.6(A-5)2
E 26 05.8(A-4)A
It was only a short leap. About 25 years back in time. You are in the eighties, in a Communist country that spends a significant part of the budget to build the huge boulevard called "The Victory of the Socialism" and the incredibly large palace called "The House of the People". But it's a bleak, hopeless society. People are afraid and desperate. It looks like they are living in an absurd nightmare. For them the history stopped, everything is frozen and they are building the big pyramids of the socialism.
Find B and let's try to find better times. Look at the big lighting poles. B is the number of lamps held by each pole.
WP3
N 44 25.70(B-A+4)
E 26 05.(A+B-4)9(A-5)
Amazing, isn't it? The church was here, behind the blocks, and we didn't suspect its existence! It was rebuilt at the end of the 19th century but it tells the story of some terrible events that happened more then 150 years before. We are in 1714. Did you hear what just happened? Constantin Brancoveanu, the wise king that ruled our country for almost 30 years was executed yesterday in Istanbul by the Ottomans. They first killed his four sons and obliged him to watch everything; then they executed him. It's terrible - these Turks are so much stronger than us; they do whatever they want here... we have such a sad destiny...
Look at the statue of the lady. C is the number of papers she holds with her left hand.
WPFINAL
N 44 25.79(B-1)
E 26 06.C5(B-6+C)
The time leap was more severe. We are now at the end of the 15th century.
Unlike other European capitals, the old buildings of Bucharest will be repeatedly destroyed by earthquakes and fires along the centuries. Not much will survive from this palace. But right now take care: you might meet somewhere the bloody king Vlad The Impaler.
And now, in order to return to your times you'll have to find the nanocache hidden somewhere in the 15th century.
Good luck!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Zntargvp, jurer gur jngre sybjf, 170 pz nobir gur tebhaq.