GeoVenture Survival Test #06 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 8/19/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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This geocache was part of the GeoVenture Challenge: The Survival Test on August 25, 2012. The weekend event was hosted by the Manitoba Geocaching association. Most of the 35 Geocaches placed during this challenge featured a survival type question. An example of that question and the information that inspired that question may be below.

The entire series was designed to be a park and grab power series to be published after the event. Enjoy!
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Q28: Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience members died of internal hemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council, survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leaped straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England, in the destruction of the planet Earth. (Thankfully)
 
Which of these 3 survival tips is wrong and will get cause your spleen to jump straight out of your left ear and run for the hills?
 
  1. You must stick your head inside the nearest toilet and repeatedly slam the lid down on your ears while screaming the words to the "Dirge of Slightly Exploded Bullfrogs" If a toilet is not available, then any door with a malfunctioning politeness circuit will do.
  2. You start by stuffing your ears with some form of thick material, preferably as dense as possible. You may need to be able to communicate so that the Vogon does not notice you have stuffed your ears with some dense substance so you should also learn to read lips. Although this creates another problem. If you can read lips, you can see what the Vogon says. This means you will have to concentrate on the eyes of the Vogon and judge when the Vogon has read the poem and you should speak. This is all very very difficult.
  3. You must deeply meditate while the Vogon reads his poem. Preferably you should try to get in contact with some very talkative ancestor of yours, who can lead you away from the deadly words of the Vogon.
Answer: A.

In reality, most people of the Universe just aren't prepared to hear Vogon poetry. Of those who are, most don't survive the recital. Those that do survive the recital spend years in therapy trying to dull the pain. It turns out that there is a pair of spin off businesses that have started over the last hundred years. Therapists pay the Vogons to have poetry recitals at random locations, like shopping malls. The Vogons are very happy to recite to an audience, blissfully unaware that they are being used to further the means of the therapists.

The other spin off business is in the assasination game. Would-be assassins simple need to arrange a Vogon poetry recital in the vincinity of their intended victim. The entire royal lineage of Proctor 9 was killed this way when the boy who was 28th in line for the thrown grew tired of waiting and arranged for a Vogon to recite the four thousand line matrimonial durge at one of his cousin's royal weddings.

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