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Fairy Tales & Fables: The Tortoise and the Hare Multi-Cache

Hidden : 4/6/2024
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


 

The Tortoise and the Hare is one of Aesop's Fables.

The Following is the tale of the Tortoise and the Hare.

One day, there was a tortoise. This was a well meaning, simple, affable tortoise who went about his life with deliberate and steadfast consistency. He had his routine and got everything done he needed to throughout the day. Nextdoor, in the burrow, there lived a hare. He was an expeditious and harried hare. He tried to complete as much as he could in a day and was constantly ridiculing the Tortoise for being so languid in everything he did. It was a pitty he wasn't as swift as he, the Hare. Having had enough of the degrading comments of the Hare, the Tortoise replied how he believed he could beat the Hare in a race, therefore challenging him to one. The Hare laughed at him and mocked him all the more, but thought it a fun game and enjoyed the idea of crushing the Tortoise in a footrace.
A fox who was nearby decided to officiate. He set the course and blew the starting whistle, and the Hare shot out, while the Tortoise began his ambling gait. A few minutes later, the Hare, with a very considerable lead saw a shady glade next to a peaceful creek and decided to stop to rest to lord his superiority over the Tortoise. After his nap he would finish the race before the poor tortoise even made it halfway. 
Yet, when the Hare awoke, he saw the Tortoise's sliding tracks in the sand and ran his swiftest to catch up, but was unable to catch the Tortoise in time, and much to his chagrin and embarassment, the Tortoise waiting for him at the finish line as he had passed him slowly but surely while the Hare was fast asleep.

The End

Cache:

At the Start, you will begin your race. Come with a parter to race against, preferably someonene with a different speed than you. Find the two eracers. On them are the coordinates to the 2nd stage. However, one takes you on the Tortoise's path to the Tortoise's second stage, and one takes you on the Hare's path to the Hare's second stage. Each of you choose one to path to follow. After that it is a race for who can get to the Finish line first! 

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NB: The Starting line and Finish line are the same for all racers.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgneg: Urnq urvtug be nobir, yvxr n fgnegvat synt, ohg abg unatvat. Svavfu: Ba gbc bs gur Svavfure'f Crqrfgny haqrearngu gur ubyyl.

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)