Bonus Puzzle: Thwarting Order 66 Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

offline.cacher: The general rule reviewers use to archive a cache is that the cache owner has been notified (through a log entry) by the reviewer and that no response has been forthcoming. This is the case with this cache. As a result it has been archived.
If the owner would like to discuss this issue, please contact me through my gmail address. Don't forget to include the GC code for the cache.

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offline.cacher
Virginia geocaching.com reviewer

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Hidden : 5/30/2015
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Bonus cache! This cache is one of a series of easy-to-find caches along the beautiful Warhill Sports Complex multi-use trail commemorating those who influenced the English settlement of James City County, and by extension, the United States. The trail is 3.5 miles long, but has many exit and entrance locations, which you can find here.

***** Wait!! *****

I have archived so many of the caches in this series, there's no way to use the old method to find this cache. Please use the clues below, the information for which can be found on archived pages, to solve the final location for Order 66, which is at:
N 37° 19.$%4 W 076° 4#.@75
Solve for $: The National Park Service developed a GeoTrail in honor of this explorer’s adventures in the Chesapeake: _________.
Newport - $ = 0
Smith - $ = 1
Gilbert - $ = 3
Raleigh - $ = 4

Solve for %: This person left home to avoid family bloodshed: ________.
Cook - % = 9
Opitchapam - % = 7
Madoc - % = 5
Rolfe - % = 3

Solve for #: This person used the story of Madoc the Welshman to encourage English colonization of the New World: __________.
Gosnold - # = 5
Hakluyt - # = 6

Solve for @: This person was the Chief Powhatan when the English first arrived in Jamestown:
Wahunsenacawh - # = 1
Amonute - # = 0
Necotowance - # = 9
Otiotan - # = 8

***** Original Page prior to the archiving of the many caches in this series *****

In 1622, Opechancanough carefully orchestrated a plan to exterminate the nearly 1700 British colonists in Virginia, removing the threat of their invasion of his homeland. Leveraging a guarded peace that the colonists and Powhatans had been building, he strategically placed his soldiers in settlements and plantations over a hundred miles up the James with a plan to strike on March 22. The night before, Chanco, a Pamunkey boy and adopted son of colonist Richard Pace, told Pace about the plan. Pace rowed across the James from the current location of Surrey to warn the Jamestown residents. Despite dispatching almost 350 colonists, Opechancanough's plans were thwarted and over 1300 colonists survived the attack, thanks to Chanco & Pace.

Historians agree that the Jedi Order could have benefited from a Chanco.

You can read more about Chanco at Wikipedia. Additionally, the recounting of the event from Pace family geneology is written from the position that Opechancanough was Don Luis.

Using the clues you found at each cache from "In Search of Peace" through "The Last Powhatan Chief," you can find the cache here:
N 37° JB.FGC W 076° 4H.AED

Here's the full list of caches with hints you need to solve the puzzle:
Towards Peace - GC5QHCC
Ajacan - GC5QNC2
Planting the West - GC5QKFQ
Royal Inertia - GC5QHCH
The Explorer - GC5QHCQ
Namer of the Bay - GC5QKMF
Virginia Company - GC4XQK5
Wahunsenacawh - GC5QKJ0
Colonizer - GC5QJ35
Smith - GC5WB6H
Daughter of the Paramount Chief - GC5WB97
Patsy or Spy? - GC5WGXE
Resisting Invasion - GC5WG5W

Some of the hints can only be found by visiting specific geocaching trackable pages. You'll have to enter the tracking code found at the geocache, then find the hint on the trackable's page. The "special tool required" attribute icon is on this page to alert you that bringing a smart phone with Internet access or having a mobile phone with access to someone sitting at a computer will expedite your solving the puzzle. Please feel free to log "discovered it" while you are visiting the trackables' pages.

You can check your solution at Geochecker.com.

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Because the trail is set in a wildlife conservation area, please take special care to not disturb the vegetation (or the wildlife!). The caches are set up to be easy for you to find. If your coordinates indicate that a cache is in a tree, please check the foot of the tree first, then along the trunk. Caches will never be out along the branches or in shrubs or bushes. If it takes more than a minute or two to find the cache, please check the hint. The trail is open from 7 am until sunset.

Thanks to GoodSunCachers who mentored me on the JCC permitting process. Visit the bottom of their "Game On!" cache to get links to JCC requirements and permit application.
Thanks to James City County for keeping up such a beautiful trail and letting us cache here!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Hcevtug ubyybj ybt

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)


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