Warning: This episode is rated PG-13. Viewer Discretion is Advised.
Note: Part of the clues required you to find an impressive Autobot hideout with a piece of Autobot exoskeleton on display. The Decepticons have since removed this. It was located at "Stage G" = N 45° 16.675'
Four Autobots were captured by a demented Decepticon that was obsessed with torturing his victims just like in the Saw movie series. While saying "Do you wanna play a game?", he strapped chest pieces on the Autbots, rigged with remote controlled poison injection needles. If the Autobots fail the Decepticon's game, they will be injected with poison and die.
The Decepticon started explaining to the Autobots the rules of his game, and what they must do to survive. The Autobots were shown a map of one of the floors of the demented Decepticon's 'Torture Warehouse' that they will be placed in. This floor consists of 5x4 adjacent rooms, for a total of 20 rooms...
Midway through the explanation, the Decepticon appeared to grow more and more agitated until he picked up a device off a table with a big red button on it. With a loud cackle, he pressed the red button, and shortly after all the Autobots dropped to the ground dead.
A few days later one of his Decepticon allies came by his warehouse to chat. He asked him why he killed the four Autobots instead of making them solve puzzles like he normally does. He replied that he was frustrated how the Autobots kept solving all his riddles and escaping unharmed... and how he was even more annoyed that the Autobots that escaped told one of their human friends, and that he was actually making geocache puzzles out of them (Ex: GC81YB2, GC82E54, and GC833WQ).
He later told his Decepticon ally that he hid the bodies in Lytle Park forest. He setup many pink ribbons to distract humans from finding them. The locations of the Autobot bodies can be found here:
- One dead Autobot was dumped here: GC78KGB
- Two dead Autobots were dumped here: GC7DVNY
- The other dead Autobot was dumped here: GC836DA
The demented Decepticon told his ally that if he wanted, he could try to find the hidden Energon cylinder that would have been the reward for the Autobots should they have escaped. The riddle to find it is as follows:
Navigate to all the 8 stages (Stages A - H). Each one is an Autobot Hideout. You will find a wide range of structure types, from forts that you can enter, to platforms 6' feet of the ground, 10' off the ground and even 20' feet off the ground or a combination of structure types.
The small Enercon cylinder is located here:
N 45° 16.(A+1)(B+1)(C+2)' W 75° 48.0(D)(E)'
You will need to find the stage which has an impressive Autobot hideout with a piece of Autobot exoskeleton on display high above it (you will absolutely know it when you see it, no guess work required...). This was ripped off one of the poor Autobots and put on display as a warning to any other Autobots that dare to challenge the Decepticons in the area.
You can get A, B and C by the last 3 digits of the northern coordinates of the stage.
For example: If the posted northern coordinates of the Stage were "N 45° 16.123'", then A = 1, B = 2, C = 3.
D = 3 If there is a fire pit at this Autobot Hideout or 1 if there is no fire pit.
To find the value for 'E', you need to find the Autobot Hideout that fits this description:
You need to crouch a bit to enter the hideout, and it has comfy 'energy recuperation devices' inside of it, and it sort of has a roof (although it's not really water proof), it's general shape my be described as rectangular or maybe oval and it has red arrows pointing to the entrance.
E = 0 if the hideout exists in an eastern direction, or 6 if the hideout exits in a western direction (i.e. if you were inside the Hideout, and were to exit it, which direction would you be travelling in?) (Reminder 'E' is from a different 'Stage/Hideout' than the one for A/B/C/D)
Easy-peasy really...
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Transformers: Robots Geocaching in Disguise - Season 2 - Autobot Hideouts
For a list of every cache in this series, look at the bottom of the 1st cache of this series here: GC7YCMK_autobot-hideout-1