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01 | The Bad Beginning Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/5/2015
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Dear Cacher,

Welcome to The Bad Beginning. I am sorry you have stumbled upon this unfortunate series of geocaches, a word which here means tupperware hidden in the woods located by using multi-million dollar satellites. If your luck is better than that of the Baudelaire orphans, you can solve the puzzle below to find the coordinates of this cache before Count Olaf does. DO NOT GO TO THE POSTED COORDINATES and, please, use HIGH STEALTH so you and the cache are not apprehended by the authorities or by muggles, as Lemony Snicket has been. In fact, you may want to seriously consider using the dark abyss of the night for your cover.

An image with a blue background and white line drawings. The white line drawings are in the shape of fourteen eyes, arranged in two rows of seven. Each eye is in the shape of an oval. Some eyes are closed and some eyes are open. The closed eyes have eyelashes that point downward. The open eyes have eyelashes that point upward and also a circle in the middle of the oval. The first row of eyes consists of: a closed eye with four eyelashes; a closed eye with one eyelash; a closed eye with four eyelashes; a closed eye with two eyelashes; a closed eye with three eyelashes; a closed eye with no eyelashes; and an open eye with two eyelashes. The second row of eyes consists of: an open eye with three eyelashes; a closed eye with three eyelashes; a closed eye with three eyelashes; an open eye with four eyelashes; an open eye with three eyelashes; an open eye with two eyelashes; and a closed eye with four eyelashes.

You do not have to have read Lemony Snicket's very forlorn diatribes in order to solve this puzzle. Check your answers below and proceed at your own risk. Please do bring your own writing utensil.

With all due respect,
A white background with a hand-drawn signature in black that says hermione_danger.

P.S. This cache is #1 in A Series of Unfortunate Caches. In order to solve #13, you need to take careful note of the letter / number combination hidden inside each of the physical caches #1 through #12.

P.P.S. Congratulations (or perhaps apologies) to Team ForPawz and SW00P for FTF.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gung Ebzna ahzore flfgrz znl or varssvpvrag, ohg vg jbexf.

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)