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1703 Shut 'Em All Down! Mystery Cache

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Unfortunately, the Ice Age Trail Alliance has decided that geocaches are no longer allowed on their property, so I must archive your listing from the geocaching.com website. Please retrieve your carrier at the earliest possible opportunity. Also, please understand that you have done nothing wrong in placing this geocache. They have just changed their mind with regard to our hobby and no longer welcome us on their lands.

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Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is NOT at the listed coordinates, this will only get you to the parking area.  You will need to solve the puzzle to obtain the location of the cache & log. Park in the lot. Do NOT park on the road.  Please park at listed coordinates & follow the trail to access the cache location.This cache was initially placed as part of the West Bend Cache Ba$h. Don't forget to stamp your booklet and please leave the stamp behind for the next finder.


If you are in town for the 2017 Cache Ba$h, you can view the full scale “compactor” to help you solve the puzzle.  Compactor will be located at N 43° 25.988 W 088° 11.457 August 11-13, 2017. After that date, use the photos & links included below to solve this puzzle.

This cache is NOT at the listed coordinates, this will only get you to the parking area.  You will need to solve the puzzle to obtain the location of the cache & log. Park in the lot. Do NOT park on the road.  Please park at listed coordinates & follow the trail to access the cache location.This cache was initially placed as part of the West Bend Cache Ba$h. Don't forget to stamp your booklet and please leave the stamp behind for the next finder.

When we KETCHUP with our heroes, Luke SkyCacher, Chewy-A.P.E. and Han SWAGer have freed Princess Leia-Nano from her DETENTION CELL. They have managed to escape the advances of the Groudspeak HQ-troopers, but are now stuck in garbage compactor 3263827.  See if you can help them escape…..

 

Han: This garbage chute was a really wonderful idea!  What an incredible smell you’ve discovered!

Luke: I’ve got some PARFUM!

Leia: Well, somebody needed to save our skins! Perhaps you’d rather an HERBAL BATH?!

Han: Absolutely your worship! I had everything under control till you led us down here!  Would you prefer it back in your cell?

Leia: I’d rather list that place with my REALTOR!

Han: Really your highness! I’d bake you a cake, but I’m all out of FLOUR!

Leia: This is some rescue! You have a plan for getting us out!?

Luke: How about a MAGIC BALL? Anyone got one?

Chewy: AGGGGGHHHH!

Leia: This place is filthy! Anyone got some MULTI-SURFACE CLEANER?

Han: I’ve got a bad feeling about this. 

Leia: Did you take your VITAMINS?!

Han: Nope, just low blood sugar. I need a CANDY BAR!

Leia: Just stick a CRACKER in it!

Luke: The walls!

Leia: Don’t just stand there!  Try to brace it with something!

Han: DUCT TAPE! Try that!

Leia: No silly, that won’t work!

Luke: 3PQ! 3PQ!  Where is he?! 3PQ! Come in!

C3-PQ: Master! We’ve…

Luke: Will you shut up and listen to me!  Shut down all the garbage smashers on the detention level, will ya! Do you copy, shut down all the garbage smashers on the detention level!

C3-PQ to R2-GZ: Shut them down! Shut them all down! Hurry!

R2-GZ: Beep! Boop!

Luke/Leia/Han/Chewy all together cheering!

C3-PQ: Listen to them R2! They’re dying! Curse my metal body! I wasn’t fast enough! It’s all my fault!  If only I’d had some LUBRICANT!

Luke: We’re all right! You did great! Open the pressure maintenance hatch on unit 3263827!

Han: I need a drink!

Leia: Try a refreshing SODA Flyboy!

Luke: I’d famished! Anyone for some SOUP?!

Chewy: AGGGHHH!

Han: No you can have a sandwich! You Big Furry Oaf! We’re outta BREAD!

 

 

To find the final location of the garbage smasher & open the hatch, you need to solve the following puzzle:

 

N (LUBRICANT)(CRACKER)  (REALTOR)(HERBAL BATH).(BREAD-1)(PARFUM+4)(FLOUR)

W (KETCHUP-5)(MAGIC BALL)(SODA+1)  (SOUP)(MULTI-SURFACE CLEANER).(VITAMINS-5)(DUCT TAPE)(CANDY BAR-4)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Uvag: Hfr gur ahzoref nffbpvngrq jvgu rnpu oenaq anzr be cebqhpg lbh fcbg va gur genfu pbzcnpgbe (1fg qvtvg bayl sbe zhygv qvtvgf). Uvag: Gb haybpx gur cerffher znvagranapr ungpu, erfphr bhe urebrf naq svaq gur ybt, hfr gur ahzore bs gur qrgragvba ungpu jurer gur Cevaprff jnf xrcg.

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)