SABATEAN WRITING (Massif, West of Riyadh) Traditional Cache
SABATEAN WRITING (Massif, West of Riyadh)
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This cache is fairly straight forward and just about passable to 2WDs provided they find and keep to the main track.
The following extract is taken from the log of Scarinian: I slipped quietly into the wadi. At the far end I could see a fence, an impressive fence clearly intended to keep people out. I wondered how I would breach such a formidable obstacle but then I heard the sound of rock on rock and looking to my right saw Saboteans using crude stone implements to carve letters into the rock face. Were these people friendly? I did not know. Sheathing the Enchanted Sword of Scalim I crept towards them but then as I did so I recalled the foretelling of the Widow Hag of Kingdom. “Do not be tempted to talk to strangers while carrying the Sacred Milk Churn of Riyadh for their curiosity will overcome their friendliness and they will endeavour to take it from you. As you face the cliff on which they write, behind you is another wadi. Go forth into this wadi and conceal the Milk Churn and then speak to those that carve.” I did as I was bade and creeping into the wadi I found an obvious hiding place at about chest height in which I concealed the Sacred Milk Churn vowing to return for it later…
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(Decrypt)
Gur yrggre sebz gur Znedhvf bs Znffvs vapyhqrf n ersrerapr gb guvf vapvqrag. Fpnevavna qrfpevorq ubj ur sbhaq na navzny ubyr va juvpu ur pbaprnyrq gur Zvyx Puhea naq gung vg jnf ynetr rabhtu va juvpu gb uvqr gur irffry jvgubhg arrqvat gb pbire gur ragenapr sebz ivrj.
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