The Octo-Queen in Exile
The Doleful Pond Saga, Chapter VIII
Note: The most sensible way to reach this hide location is by a circuitous route but if you want to make a beeline through an overgrown swamp that’s up to you. If you are coming from the east, try going further down the trail to cross the little swamp valley and then double back.
OMG, Queen Octavia got booted from Doleful Pond!
Reports are sketchy but it seems all the rival players in the Doleful Pond Saga united to oust her. Not surprising really. Of all the self-aware geocaches I’ve created, Octavia is by far the worst. Delusions of grandeur, diabolical scheming, megalomaniacal ranting, blood-cuddling screeching. She’s simply insufferable.
No wonder the other Doleful Pond geocaches got fed up with her. Düke Dolefül, Sir Geoffrey De Cache, Egg McCrusty, and the Rock Lobster put aside their differences to form an alliance against Octavia. Even the honorable yet aloof Count Dunstan Drylog joined the cause after this odious invertebrate openly mocked his favorite song: The B-52’s Rock Lobster.
As you might expect, Octavia did not go quietly. When the alliance demanded she leave Doleful Pond, she transformed into a blur of whirling tentacles and launched herself at her foes. Soon the Düke and Sir Geoffrey lay groaning on the ground. The Rock Lobster collapsed from exhaustion and Egg McCrusty declared himself a pacifist. Count Dunstan the Stalwart stood alone as the last bulwark against tyranny.
From across the battlefield, Dunstan shouted “I’m your huckleberry, Squid Girl!” Enraged by this taunt, Octavia spun like a pinwheel straight at the Count. Unfazed, he held his ground and sliced a chunk off one of her tentacles with a perfectly timed strike*. And just like that, the fight was over. Utterly defeated, the once Almighty Queen of the Sea of Tears slunk into exile.
The humbled Tyrant Queen now sulks and plots her revenge from a rock lair within Town Forest. The moment you find Octavia, I highly recommend you drop your knees and shower her with praise. Otherwise, your insolence will likely earn you a vicious tentacle lashing.
Please tuck Octavia snuggly back into her lair. She may be reprehensible but she deserves a fate better than death by squirrel.
*Octivia still bears the scar.
More Octivia lore:
Queen Octavia the Geo-Tyrant
The Doleful Pond Saga, Chapter VI
Behold I am Octavia, Almighty Queen of the Sea of Tears and Great Brood Mother of all soft spineless creatures! To all those so-called geocaches who contest my dominion, heed this warning: yield to me or I will wave my great tentacles at you in a menacing fashion until your tears flow into MY SEA! And you pathetic rigid humans, listen to my war cry and despair! BLOOP GORP GURRRLLL SPFFFFF!! Hmmm...it appears that one of my new experimental self-aware geocaches has gone completely insane. But fear not, Octavia may be a megalomaniac but she is also inanimate by design so she can't actually hurt you.
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Please be nice to nature.
Also, please note the location and orientation of the cache container before you retrieve it and put it back just as you found it.
Thank you for your cooperation.
For maps and more information on Town Forest conservation land: https://littletonconservationtrust.org/property/town-forest/
Permission to hide geocaches on Littleton conservation land was granted by the Conservation Trust of Littleton, MA. https://littletonconservationtrust.org/
Special thanks to Littleton Conservation Trustee Dustin Neild.
A gift from Hrothgar, the self-styled sovereign of the Nashoba Valley!