This is the XYZYX Adventure Lab Bonus (ALBo). The physical cache is not located at the published coordinates, instead you must complete the XYZYX Adventure Lab, which is located near the Richmond Mall, to get the final coordinates. Read the following carefully before attempting the Adventure Lab.
For over 875,000 years, aliens from the planet XYZYX have been trying to send a message to the people of Earth. While they cannot travel here in any reasonable amount of time, they have extraordinary abilities to affect human behavior. Through the use of quantum entanglement, they are able to make Earth people do things which look ordinary, but in fact are part of a plan to relay an important message to all the people of Earth.
First, they tried making authors write books which included the message, but no one was intelligent enough to interpret this correctly. Next, they tried using musicians, but this evolved into rock music and the musicians' brains shrivelled to an infinitesimal size. They even tried TV shows, but they were only able to get the message, “EEP OPP ORK AH-AH” through and it was not interpreted correctly.
One day, on the Earth date of May 2, 2000 to be exact, the smartest XYZYX scientist noticed that something had changed on Earth and that it was finally possible to get the message through. A team of over a thousand XYZYX-ians were dedicated to affecting people on Earth to do things which would lead to the message being received and interpreted correctly. This led to the Earthlings inventing Geocaching. They knew that Geocachers would have exceptionally large brains and would be excellent searchers, too.
When you sit calmly, you might get a sudden urge to do something: Find a cache, hide a cache, or maybe do an Adventure Lab. You are actually being influenced from XYZYX to do these things. It is all part of their plan to get their message to Earth.
Right now, you think you are just going to find an Adventure Lab and the Bonus, but you are in fact going to receive the long-awaited message from XYZYX. First, you must learn a bit about them and how the message will appear.
Be careful. The aliens on XYZYX have three fingers on each of their two hands, so be sure to answer each of the Adventure Lab questions in a number system that shows you are able to communicate with them in this base. Further, any information that comes from XYZYX is also in this base. Be careful.
The coordinates for this cache are given when you solve Stage 5.
If you have any trouble answering the Adventure Lab questions, please read this description again, especially the paragraph that begins, "Be careful".