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The Pardoner's Cache Traditional Cache

Hidden : 8/3/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


"But hood for jolitee wered he noon,
He had a cois of latoun, full of stones:
And in a glass he hadde pigges bones.
But with thise “relikes,” whan that he fond
A poyre person dwelling upon lond."

The Pardoner is just this little clerical guy, who is selling fake relics. He has a jar filled with pig bones and is telling the poor that they belonged to dead saints. Now, before anyone has a hissy, I was baptized here and my family has a long history with the church. Hopefully you can believe me, because unlike the Pardoner, I am not trying to sell you pig bones.
Pardoner=A

Have fun!

Geoffrey Chaucer (most famous for writing The Canterbury Tales) is known as “The Father of English Literature” and was the first person to be buried in what is now known as the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. In the late 14th century everything was written in Latin, Italian, German and French, but Chaucer, (the amazing rebel that he was) decided that he would write in the language of his people, English. I feel it’s about time Little Rock had some Literature strewn about the city.

The Canterbury Tales was going to consist of 120 tales, but only 28 were written before he died, leaving it unfinished. However it is still one of the most remarkable pieces of literature to date. It has everything in it from the greatest moral tales to the most sexually vulgar, what more could one want?

Set Up
This is set up in the same manner as the AR state parks caches. Each cache has its own feel to it and is a traditional cache, but on the top of each cache there will be a number that you plug into a set of coordinates, to show where the final cache is hidden. Unlike the AR state park department I don’t have enough money to supply geo coins, but I’m also not putting these all over the state and there aren’t 52 of them. However the swag will be more substantial than the every day cache.

These caches are designed and named for their character. Note the location as well.

********Unfortunately I’ve had some severe trouble maintaining the canterbury caches as a multi-cache, so FOR NOW they are going to simply be caches of their own. Sorry for misleading you on this quest.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fvapr gurer unir orra vffhrf jvgu pbbeqf, vg vf abg vafvqr gur puhepu naq vg vf abg va gur nyyrl. Vg vf ehfg pbyberq.

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)