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Quasimodo's Orchard Multi-cache

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Hidden : 7/22/2010
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not at these coordinates, but this represents a good place to start. Review the information below and then determine the next waypoint.

Quasimodo is retiring from Notre Dame Cathedral and is auditioning bell-ringers. He runs an ad in the French Gazette. A guy from a nearby village applies. The new applicant turns up and to Quasimodo's surprise he had no arms!

"You must have arms to do this job!" says Quasimodo

"I'm an expert bell ringer." replies the applicant "I've been ringing the bells in my village tower for 30 years."

"How's that?" asks Quasimodo.

"I'd prefer to demonstrate" he replies. So off up the steps to the bell tower they go.

"Go ahead and show me your stuff" Quasimodo says. The guy takes a few steps back and runs full pelt at the bell, crashing into it head first. The bell gives the most pure tone old Quasimodo has heard from it for years. He is about to offer the guy the job when he sets off for another strike, but he mistimes his run and just as he reaches the spot, the bell swings out of the way and he falls out of the window to the street below.

A crowd gathers below and Quasimodo runs down to where the armless applicant is lying dead in the street. A passerby asks, "Hey Quasimodo, you know this fellow?"

"No," says Quasimodo, "but his face rings a bell...."

A few days later, the brother of the dead applicant comes to the Cathedral to apply for the same job, saying that while he lacks experience he wishes to honour the memory of his dead brother by performing the job his brother dreamed of. Quasimodo explains how to ring the bell.

The armless applicant's brother grabs the rope and gives it a huge pull, but forgets to let go, banging his head on the bell and falling to his death on the street below.

Again, Quasimodo races down to the street and another pedestrian asks, "Quasimodo, do you know this guy?"

"Nope, but he's a dead ringer for his brother."

After this traumatic episode Quasimodo left the task of recruiting a new bell ringer to the Abbots and retired to Canberra and planted an orchard. Over many years he tended 6 of his favourites trees into his ideal image of beauty.

To locate the remnants Quasimodo's Orchard and the cache use the information in the WP description.

FTF goes to Oz Lurker

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Abg va gur oenapurf, whfg svfu nobhg ba gur gehax.

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)