This geocache is a bonus mystery cache for the Adventure Lab "A Series of Unfortunate Waypoints" and cannot be solved without completing it first :
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CONTINUING FROM THE ADVENTURE LAB:
When we last saw the grief stricken Baudelaire orphans, they had just found a suicide note left by their Aunt Josephine. Follow the instructions below to continue in the story and ultimately locate and unlock the geocache.
The next day, Mr. Poe arrives and informs the children that like him or not, Captain Sham is to be their new guardian per Josephine's last will and testament written in the note, especially after they perform a cross-check with Josephine's grocery list and find out the note is not a forgery. Mr. Poe calls Captain Sham and upon hearing the news from Mr. Poe, Sham offers to take he and the three children to lunch at a local restaurant, The Anxious Clown.
** Enter through the main portal and locate the portrait of Captain Sham. On the back the portrait is a list of menu items served at the Anxious Clown. Find the item that doesn't belong and assign this value to C
1- Cheer-Up Cheeseburgers - pickles, mustard and ketchup make a little smiley face atop the burger
2- Coffee
3- Extra Fun Special Family Appetizer - a bunch of "things" fried up together and served with a sauce
4- Lachrymose Leech Eclairs
5- Ice Cubes
6- Peppermints
7- Red Wine
8- Surprising Chicken Salad - apparently terrible
At the restaurant, needing more time to find the truth behind Aunt Josephine's suicide and strangely written note, Violet decides to take drastic action and gives her siblings a peppermint, which the children are terribly allergic to. Almost immediately, the children break out in hives and their tongues swell, causing Mr. Poe to allow them to go back up to Aunt Josephine's house.
While Violet and Sunny attempt to take a baking soda bath to relieve their itchy hives, Klaus returns to the library to see if he could make out anything about Aunt Josephine's note. As his sisters return to his side, Klaus reveals that Aunt Josephine had purposefully written the note to hide a message reading "Curdled Cave". They conclude that Aunt Josephine is in fact not dead, merely hiding.
** The children find a map to the Curdled Cave inside the nearby time capsule. Locate the device on the first level. D = The year the time capsule will be opened, divided by 3
After locating a map, the children hurry to the docks to get across Lake Lachrymose to the Curdled Cave. They decide to take a steal a sailboat from Captain Sham.
They sail out through Hurricane Herman to Curdled Cave where they find Aunt Josephine. She tells the children that Count Olaf made her write the note, but instead of killing herself, she left the message and threw a footstool through the window to give the appearance that she committed suicide. The Baudelaires try to convince her to sail with them back to town to tell Mr. Poe what had happened, but she refuses. Klaus points out to her that the cave is for sale, and realtors would surely come to see it. This is enough for Aunt Josephine to agree, her fear of realtors overpowering her fear of Count Olaf.
** To sail back to the other end of the lake, the Baudelaires will need to find a landmark to focus on. They decide to use Castle Lachrymose. Proceed downstairs and locate the unlabeled painting of this castle. E = The number of trees painted in the foreground.
After sailing to the center of the vast lake, they are attacked by the Lachrymose Leeches. Aunt Josephine had regretted to point out that she had eaten a banana shortly before the children had arrived, causing the leeches to attack due to the scent of food. The leeches immediately begin to eat away at the boat attempting to get to Aunt Josephine. Violet creates a signal using a number of items held in an unassuming container to create a large fire.
** It's time to locate *our* unassuming container. Proceed back upstairs and into the main area. Head to the NE corner and locate the metallic blue container nestled in lower cubby. You'll be able to identify it by its welcoming label which reads:
"WARNING To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not exposure this product to rain or moisture!"
Open the outer container by entering the following combination from the information you collected:
Code = D - A - B - C - E
Unfortunately, the signal gets the attention of one sailor on the water, Count Olaf.
He allows the children and their aunt aboard his sailboat, just as theirs sinks from the leeches onslaught. Olaf is angered at Josephine for faking her death and threatens to kill her, saying no one will believe a dead woman. Josephine pleads with Olaf to allow her to live and that she will go far away, go into hiding, and let him keep the Baudelaires and their fortune. Olaf is almost convinced, however, when Aunt Josephine corrects a slip of grammar on Olaf's part, he throws her into the water and sails the boat back to the dock, leaving Aunt Josephine to fend for herself against the swarming leeches.
When they arrive back at the docks, Mr. Poe is just fixing to hand the children over to Captain Sham when Sunny bites into his fake wooden leg breaking it in half, revealing his tattoo and real leg beneath. Olaf then locks the gates to Damocles Dock and escapes with a henchperson of indeterminate gender and leaves the Baudelaire children searching for someone else to care for them.
** The code for the gates (A) are the same as the code for this cache's inner container which holds the log, swag, etc. PLEASE BE SURE TO PUT EVERYTHING BACK PROPERLY!
You have reached the end of this DPL geocaching adventure my friends. We hope that you have enjoyed it. Please be sure to replace the locks, container(s), borrowed glockenspiel stick, etc. exactly as you found them so that others will be able to follow in your footsteps!
Thank you!