Hello crewmate, and welcome aboard. You must be so excited! What a dream job, traveling through space to explore unknown galaxies. Look around you: these are your 10 companions through this journey.
The doors lock and the spaceship takes off. Soon, an alarm starts to ring, and everybody gathers at the central table. Over the intercom, you hear a voice: “There is an imposter among us.” You gasp, and your colleagues start eyeing each other suspiciously. You know you must find the imposter before they sabotage the mission, destroy the ship, and begin their murderous rampage…
To search for the imposter, you must complete a series of tasks to maintain the ship, slow down the imposter’s scheme, and gain clues to their identity. Completing these tasks will also prove to the other crewmates that you are not the imposter.
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TASK #1: Clear Asteroids
3… 2… 1… Blastoff!
A few days ago, your spaceship took off from Tholen, the Netherlands. So far, the trip has been uneventful (except for the sinister intercom announcement). You are enjoying the peace and quiet when suddenly, a crewmate taps on your shoulder: “Hurry! The spaceship is about to speed through a field of asteroids!”
It was time for the team’s first task: to clear the asteroids in order to safely continue your journey. After you successfully cleared the asteroids, you found that someone left a sheet of paper next to you with some words, or possibly names, that you could not make sense of. There are some pen scratches and rushed words too, as if someone wrote this in a hurry, needing to run away…
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The cache is not at the posted coordinates. You must solve the puzzle to find the coordinates of the physical cache, and you can check your answer with Certitude:
You can validate your puzzle solution with
certitude.
Thank you to teamajk for beta testing this puzzle and for very helpful feedback!
Instructions for the hide:
The cache is a pill bottle camo’ed in black tape. There is a surprise glued to the inside of the cache; please don’t remove it! If the figurine is unglued/loose in the cache, please add a “owner attention” log so I can fix it. Inside the cache are a couple stickers for the FTF(s). Please leave at least one for trading. While the cache is small, trading SWAG is encouraged! Terrain is listed as a 3.5, but depending on which way you approach the cache it could be a bit less.