The final is NOT at the posted coordinates.
This cache celebrates achieving 4000 cache finds in a year. BestActuary and Jatmo worked hard to achieve it this year while I succeeded a few years ago.
The container can be found along yet Another Random Trail we noticed while caching in the area several weeks ago. The placement is an easy one.
The start of this trail is on an old road and continues along a hydro corridor. The hydro corridor continues past the last cache published, but there is no trail in the allowance.
The popularity of graphical adventure gaming involving puzzle solving maintained a fairly steady growth from the early 80s to the late 90s. Unfortunately, high production costs, a decline in innovation and competition from first person shooter games resulted in the decline of the ART form.
However, fan popularity remains high in some circles and you can find fan supported remakes of the classics that will run on modern computers.
Sierra On-Line introduced one of my favourite series, King's Quest during this period. This puzzle pays homage to King's Quest VII - The Princeless Bride.
Answer the following questions. Find the digital root of the answers. Multiply the digital roots together and then by the number in question 6. Divide the result by 1000. Add the result to both the north and west of the following meaningless coordinates:
N43 05.997 W80 09.968
1. The heroine of the story is Rosella and the story takes place in Daventry. What is the name of the king of Daventry?
2. Rosella discovers, with the help of Mathilde, that the Troll King is an imposter and the real one is imprisoned in O___ B____ L___.
3. What declares 'The sky is falling!'?
4. The Troll King is locked in a coffin and Rosella has to figure out the combination. Unfortunately, once she figures out how to get to the king M______ appears and locks her in the coffin as well.
5. Count Vladimir _______ is cursed to ride the skies forever in search of his head.
6. The game is novel in the sense that both Rosella and her mother, Valanice, both act as first person characters in separate game sequences. At one point Valanice has to play a tune on a harp before she can visit the Three Fates. How many strings does the harp have?
7. What are the names of the Fates?
8. What is the first name of Dr. Cadaver?