The Blind Geocacher - SilentP42 Reaches 1000 Mystery Cache
The Blind Geocacher - SilentP42 Reaches 1000
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SilentP42 has been a great caching companion and an even better friend. We've shared several adventures together, and he's forced...er...taught me many things about solving puzzle caches. I thought in honor of his 1000th find, I would put together a puzzle that involves several different elements that I've picked up from him over the past few months. Congratulations and here's to 1000 more!
Curiously, when Jimmy was three years old, everyone knew that he was special. Even as he turned five, he was marked as a prodigy, intelligent beyond his years. Everyone was impressed when he memorized the fifty-two cards in a standard deck of playing cards, unerringly guessing which one was about to be drawn no matter how many times the deck was shuffled. A large number of people guessed that the deck was fixed, that the cards were marked, or that Jimmy was just amazingly lucky. By the time he was fifteen, Jimmy was graduating from high school. Just three years later, Jimmy was finishing college. Graduating at such a young age was the height of Jimmy's career as his eyesight began to fail shortly after his seventh birthday. Harrowingly, eight years later, Jimmy was declared legally blind, though he retained very limited vision. Eventually, some four months after college graduation, Jimmy became highly reclusive, locking himself away in his viridian bedchambers--green being his favorite color. In the nine years after hiding himself away, Jimmy worried about the small fortune that he was able to accumulate, intimating that someone was seeking to harm him. Becoming distrustful of all others, Jimmy then hid his savings and those valuables he treasured most in a place most secretive. As his eyesight faded, his mind followed suit, and soon all visitors were no longer allowed to call upon Jimmy. Just those providing the food and water he needed to remain alive were permitted entrance to his sanctum sanctorum. At an early age--and having hidden away some eight hundred thousand dollars worth of valuables--Jimmy succumbed to his ailments, dying at the tender age of twenty-nine. Upon searching his chambers, most of his possessions were deemed without value and they were donated to different causes. Curiously, a simple scrap of paper with the following letters was found hidden in a tiny black box in the back of his closet. No one knows the meaning of the words printed carefully in Jimmy's tight, neat handwriting:
HMCL NRWC VZAV PKLP LXVY MKPP HGQV WULM AJMV LPRN PHST ZRRY EKBZ SFKQ HTPM GUIW UPHG QLSD PPRF CGCE SGJI UWOI JQVV BSIP QQTQ YEGK SFGZ YJKP DVPI QKRG ZOIE VSXQ YHGJ IHTL GRYL WZPQ LEEU PPMF JMVL PRNT ILPP JBNP GETR TLYS PRZX WFWT WMXJ SAYX PVXH CRQL ZDIK CCIG QXSS PGNT IXCW RBVI KIYH CGVZ IAWO TMFO LFNN PGND XEKR YETX UASM IQMA GFAB ZJQG GAXS IEKR YETP YDIF MPHR FJGZ JSHV SVMN SQGX ZMLR FYIJ BZPV HILP PYAK ZWZD INPH WDPV LVLA VRGU QSKM JSHT TSBS AVUI DGTI TMWM OPSV QGYI LIVE UAUR IHQO KOLW XCCM IDWP YIKA HQVC IEMH EPYM QSFW VKEK KDWF MMCM DWPI MUWD WBWK WUTY HEWK WLKN EEWA DERU YUEL KVCA YETG JIWQ KLMT EAKO JERU AAAF SVEK KWDW NIEK ILIF YMUK FKVC AYET GJIW QKLM TEEW KLQV WYMA NSHI ISOL IFGM GQNE JMKS OHER UOUS PWTI UUGN WLIG ASJM NGEW AFOH IIYM LATG WKAT APYM QSFW HKES CDOT UCSO XGFW KWAJ WLIW MARA FYGK ADWB KMYC DEJE WKOF IFYM MQDW TWGC YLWF UGAE FKRU AAKN YXWI KIRK BWIC YHMP QMUI LIFW ISAN GNUG
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
...frq qhzgnkng hahf, dhvadhr, qrprz...
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