MIB: Tri-Lakes Division Mystery Cache
Tom.dog: Archiving due to stages having gone missing and built over.
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Greetings Agent [insert geo-initials here], and welcome to the Tri-Lakes division of the MIB, or Men In Black. We are in need of your assistance. The once quiet and peaceful Tri-Lakes community is now being threatened by a Cachatronian, who we believe landed his ship in the area recently. He has obviously taken notice of the immense amount of caches in this area and will do anything to destroy them, as is the Cachatronian’s purpose. You will need to locate his ship control box and shut down his computer systems. Without these he can no longer log onto geocaching.com and find the whereabouts of our fine geocaches to destroy.
To begin this quest with which you have been burdened with, you will need to locate the Microtian, much like a martian but far smaller. He is our mission briefer. Our alien cryptology expert, codename “Symbol” will give you coded directions to the Microtian, which can be found at the bottom of this page in digital photo format. The Microtian will then give you your supplies list which should come in handy when confronted with hostile extraterrestrials along the way.
Once you have your supplies visit Area P347, a secret location where the MIB-TLD stored all information for the final coordinates of puzzle and multi caches in this area. The Cachatronian gained the knowledge of where this confidential site was and obtained the final coordinates for many puzzles and multis, destroying the building afterwards. There is a slight chance that he left directions back to his ship there, as he is quite the lazy and careless alien when it comes to directions and codes.
With any directions that you may find at Area P347 try to find his ship. It is most likely well camouflaged to keep the common muggle from seeing it, though it should resemble something of an upright rocket. Located near the ship you can find the control box. Tap into the system using you geo-code name and access the computer systems. Shut this down. The Cachatronian will not be able to do any more damage and hopefully flee to space on the next outgoing interstellar transport ship.
Go quickly, the fate of the Tri-Lakes caching world is now in your hands!
-Agent T.D, Department Head of the MIB-TLD
UPDATE 1-28-12: VERY IMPORTANT!!! - The Cachatronian employees have come in and switched materials around that you will need to get to Area P347. Once you visit stage 1, disregard all information except for the supplies listed. If you contact me with the supplies listed in their exact order I will exchange the valuable coordinate location of Area P347.
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A Note on the Cache: All stages have fairly good parking near them. Please replace all stages as found and make sure all lids are put on correctly and tightly. No difficult terrain should be encountered so don't do anything crazy. Have fun!
Update 1/15/12: Due to Groundspeak making the puzzle image unreadable, it has been posted into a note below.
Update 1/28/12: Images are readable again.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[Stage 1] Haqre ynetr oenapu ng fcyvg va n fpeho bnx, ab arrq gb tb vagb qrrc oehfu.
Treasures
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