Zydrate Comes in a Little Glass Vial... Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 9/24/2010
Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
4.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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There is NOTHING hidden at the above coordinates! You must solve the puzzle to reveal the true location of this cache.
Hello, hello my name is Rottie Largo, welcome to my office. Sit down, sit down... I am the owner of GeneCo and I understand you are looking for a job. Luckily I have an opening. You see, I need somebody who is ruthless, smart, strong... heh... a real go-getter! And, I think you'd fit the bill.

GeneCo is the number one company worldwide for organ transplants. We sell it all - brains, hearts, lungs and everything in between. "Designer organs at bargain prices" is what we like to say. We work with our customers to finance their organ transplants. They pay a little up front and as long as they keep up with their monthly payments, soon enough the organs are theirs. Indeed, this has made me a very rich man.

However, sometimes they miss their payments. And, you need to understand that this is a business, not a charity - we don't just give these organs away. That would be aahhh... unprofitable. That's where you come in.


Your job is to repossess GeneCo's property. If you succeed, you will earn a seat on GeneCo's Board of Directors. I had to... ahhh... dispose of the previous Board Members, you see. Bunch of vultures they were. You will be contacted by a GeneCo representative with your assignments.

Also, I want you to take care of that thieving, Zydrate peddling little freak - The Graverobber! He has stolen a container which is Top-Secret company property and hid it somewhere. CATCH HIM AND MAKE HIM PAY! FIND MY BOX! IF ANYBODY IS GOING TO PROFIT FROM MY COMPANY'S MEDICATION, IT'S GOING TO BE ME!


Always keep GeneCo's interests in your mind and in your heart. Take care of this company and its property and I will take care of you. Fix this problem before the next Genetic Opera, where I address my shareholders. You don't want to see how angry they get when their profits begin to decline.

Ah yes, I think you're going to like working here...
Assignment #1


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Assignment #5


Catch the Graverobber!
GeneCo Board of Directors


Executive Chairperson - trowel32
SurGen General - KMCRVGeocaching
"General" Anesthetic - vacant


This cache is based on the musical "Repo! The Genetic Opera". It is not necessary to watch this movie to complete this cache, but it might help.

Seekers of this cache will need to complete the 5 "Assignments" to gain clues to confront The Graverobber. The "Assignments" are to retrieve Travel Bugs on which are the clues. You will be able to use the clues to determine the Graverobber's password. Find the clues, beat the Graverobber and earn your place on GeneCo's Board of Directors. FTF gets an etched mirror plaque.

Within the above text, there is a link that will direct you away from geocaching.com. As the cache owner, I guarantee this website to be free of viruses, spyware and anything else that may harm your computer. I have made it myself with simple html and it should work in most browsers.

A little more about this cache:

The inspiration for this cache came to me one night as I lay awake in bed. My house was dark and silent, and my mind was wandering as usual. In my head was a song from Repo!, Things You'll See in a Graveyard. And one verse in particular - Rottie Largo who has just learned of his fate to a terminal disease is describing who will inherit his company - stood out. "I'll keep those vultures guessing" is the line that kept repeating in my head.

It was from this song on one sleepless night that the idea of this cache and the puzzle involved was born.

When creating this cache, I tried to immerse myself and see each step through the character's eyes and role-play when I wrote their parts. Rottie, a charismatic man who is evil and rotten to the core. Rottie's children Luigi, Amber and Pavi - selfish with a sense of entitlement. Nathan's sadistic alter-ego as the Repo Man.

The Graverobber was the most fun for me. If he hid something, what would he say? Where would he hide it? What would he make you do to get it? I thought about this for a long time before deciding how to handle his involvement in this cache.

I decided to hide this cache in a place where ugly, human thoughtlessness gives way to the simple beauty and serenity of nature.

Swain's Bog was the perfect spot. Years ago, questionable business deals allowed for a contractor to begin building a development in this area. A road was paved, curbs put in, poles were erected. The project was abandoned when it was dioscovered that this was a biologically sensitive area that could not support a new development. In the years since the project was abandoned, nature has done a great job of swallowing this area back up. Before I began geocaching, I used to come here to explore, to clear my head.

Sadly, this area is now used as an illegal dumping ground by careless people and a party zone for teens. But if you go off the beaten path, you catch a glimpse of what this area used to be before leaving all signs of civilization entirely. It was a cranberry bog with old irrigation culverts - built, no doubt, after Ferrargo and the old Dover Forge closed down in the 1800's and farmers took over the areas that had been strip-mined up until the beginning of the 20th century. Wild cranberries and massive blueberry bushes that line the paths of this area still grow every year, fed by a tributary of the Cedar Creek.

This cache is hidden behind the cranberry bogs off of a trail system that is almost completely swallowed up again by nature. The spot I picked is an area where the path around one of the bogs borders a swampy cedar bog. You can see the tall cedar trees, the peculiar carnivorous pitcher plants spread out in clumps and the neon-green moss that grows along the floor. You hear the quiet stilness of nature and the trickling water of the creek, you smell the sweet odor of the cedar.

It's beautiful all right, but also creepy. The thick canopy of the cedar trees conceals a dark, gloomy and humid microclimate. Everything looks the same and satellite reception is spotty at best. What appeared to be a lush forest floor is actually slippery and spongy. Get lost out here and it may take quite a long time to get out again. It's just the sort of place I think the Graverobber might hide something important.

Considering all the thought and effort I put into this cache, I'd have to say that it ranks as my favorite hide to date. Discovering all of the clues may be difficult, but solving the puzzles shoudn't be - I've incorporated elements of other puzzle caches that I have solved and enjoyed in a new way. I really and truly hope you enjoy it...


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