**The cache is not hidden at the posted coordinates, but that could be a place to park.**
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.
~ ~ The puzzle for this cache is below. You are seeking the coordinates of the cache. ~ ~
Task #2: Develop Photos
Your space journey takes you past a black hole. Time begins to bend: past, present, future… Suddenly, an envelope of photos appears in the ship. The writing on the outside looks familiarly robotic, but inside the envelope, the photos have some sort of strange, futuristic designs. Your teammates think this might be a message from an extraterrestrial community. You volunteer to develop the photos and decrypt any potential hidden messages.
IMPORTANT: The coordinates have changed slightly, but the puzzle has not. Once you solve the puzzle, subtract 0.002 from your North coordinates and 0.002 from your West coordinates. Check the new coordinates (after doing the subtraction) in Certitude. The cache is pretty close to the original coordinates, just in a different hiding spot a few steps away.
You can validate your puzzle solution with
certitude.
Thank you to DrydenDM for beta testing this puzzle!
~~~ 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.
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. Parking may be difficult to find during summer months.