Bugblatter Beasts of Traal
"The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and confusing universe. For though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does make the reassuring claim that where it is inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate. In cases of major discrepancy it is always reality that’s got it wrong. So, for instance, when the Guide was sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Traal literally - it said “Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal for visiting tourists” instead of “Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists” - the editors claimed that the first version of the sentence was the more aesthetically pleasing; summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty, and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in this case was life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred…and in a moving speech held that life itself was in contempt of court and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off for a pleasant evening's Ultra-golf."
- Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Radio Series.
The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is such a mindbogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a bush, but very ravenous. The best way to deal with the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is therefore to wrap a towel around your head.
THE CACHE:
This cache will have you face off with not one, not two, but THREE Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts of Traal (one is green, the other two are blue) so bring a towel. You will need to carefully approach these ravenous creatures and examine them. With the information you will have gathered, a quick mathematical rundown will lead you to the cache.
The GREEN Bugblatter Beast is at the posted coordinates (N45° 25.378' W075° 36.226'). It appears to have hieroglyphic figures tattooed on its scales to commemorate each of its victims. It also has impressive back and side ridges (the crest around the head does not count).
A= Figures on the head portion
B= Ridges on the head portion
C= Figures on the body portion
D= Ridges on the body portion
E= Figures on the tail portion
F= Ridges on the tail portion
The BLUE Bugblatter Beasts are a short walk away (N45° 25.324' W075° 36.071').
G= Horns on one
H= Scales on the back of the other
H-G=X
C-(A+B+D+E+F)-1=Y
To find the cache: SUBTRACT X from the decimal portion of the latitude and SUBTRACT Y to the decimal portion of the longitude of the posted coordinates.