undead in gaming Mystery Cache
Hidden : 8/31/2022
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


As prevalent as zombies are in movies, it's said their popularity really took off with video games, e.g., Plants vs. Zombies, Whiskey Delta, V-Act, & I love the term used in Dead Space, i.e., necromorph. The backstory of another popular video game involves a mutant infection in USA circa Sept. 2013. A fungus grows inside a live host taking away their higher brain function. The host initially become hyper-aggressive, and incapable of rational thought and it goes downhill from there. The best fiction is somewhat based on reality; in this case, the parasitic fungus is an actual mushroom for which you're looking for its genus derived from Greek words for "club head".

I am killing off each traditional in the "living cache" series, i.e., #1/#2/#3/#5/#6/#7, & slowly replacing them with this undead series. Zombies have infiltrated virtually all mediums with a plethora of names used, e.g., in "World War Z" alone, they're called undead, ghouls (g’s for short), saifu, zack, zed heads, and a newly infected zombie is called a noob. There are terms for zombies that display specific behavior, e.g., ankle biters, crawlers, draggers, grabbers, lurkers, swimmers, & tin cans of which the last one is a zombie in riot gear or any metal armor. Each Mystery cache in this series requires the seeker to enter a term for a zombie in a different medium, e.g., mythology, TV, movies, books, fantasy, poetry, music, folklore, comic books, prophecy, nature &, of course, human history. This cache visits gaming.


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Congratulations on FTF to Dr. Pflug Correct guess rate currently at 64%, therefore, D=2.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

svany bs gur bowrpgvir pnfr bs 'jr'

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)


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