Constance's Cache (Rupert's Revenge) Mystery Cache

Hi Constance...here it is,

You're reading this listing on the geek site because I got tagged for the Yonkers thing (you know, the one where we were going after those things in the vault under the place near where those poodles bit Lucky that time...you had the brains to skip that job), and I'm cooling my heels at Riker's for the foreseeable future. We had some fun that time in Belize, with the emerald guy and his monkey at the beach house...proved yourself trustworthy too, so I'm gonna give you the 411 on some boodle from an earlier job, one you weren't in on. After you turn it into money (use the fat man in Boston for the stones, and the guy with the bum leg in Newport for the rest of the stuff...good luck with the meteorite), send my lawyer in NYC 30k for ongoing appeals, and enjoy the rest.

This private collection we hit in Harpswell 8 months ago was fat, and I guess the size of the haul diminished the sharing capabilities of Big Mo and Stuttering Stan (I saw them exchange some significant looks when we made the initial count while we were laying low that made me fear for my longevity); so I pulled a "dash and stash" while everyone else was sleeping off the party after the job (Mo and Stan may have subsequently questioned my sharing capabilities, but what are you gonna do?). I chartered a plane to SLK, hid the stuff, and was airborne again (and cruising towards the Bahamas) before Mo and Stan woke up. I sold some of the haul that wouldn't stand up to a winter in the Adirondacks, but the prime stuff is still there: valuable coins, rubies, emerald, sapphires, diamonds, tricky stamps, and the Van de Kamp Meteorite.

Big Mo and Stuttering Stan weren't happy when they woke up to find that I had disappeared with the booty, but I left a trail even they could follow, and as such you won't need to look over your shoulder for them once you grab the stuff. My leftovers from Zach's cache and the profits from selling stuff from this job will keep me comfortable inside for the whole time (the Yonkers job got messy when Handsome Billy chilled a guard too enthusiastically, so I'm down for Murder one…death in the commission of a felony...yadda, yadda, yadda). Have fun with your newfound wealth, you more than earned it that time in the Caymans, with the things in that place with the paintings and Stinky Phil stubbed his toe ('nuff said)...I'll look you up if I get out.

I used the same guy Zach did in the Adirondacks to set up the cache listing for the booty, the setup is pretty much the same as I described to you before; he's been paid, so all you have to do is figure out the code, and go pick up your stuff. This encryption scheme is a little different from Zach's code, not numbers based, but you'll get it with some T&E work. You can break the encryption using just your knowledge of working vigenere cryptograms (a-z, comma, period, 1-9), a pad of graph paper, and a printout of this listing. No knowledge of mathematical sequences or memories of past discussions of our favorite books is required, just crunch the listing. Everything you need to get started is below the line at the bottom of this page; the rest will come from your own hard work.

Once you've decrypted the message, find your way to Saranac Lake in Upstate NY, and look up Snuffy Muldoon, from the thing in Concord that time with those guys from Saskatoon in that place by the big clock...he'll set you up with a place to crash and any gear you need, and he won't rip you off, he owes me. The coordinates given in the cache listing are not the final coordinates, they are simply the coordinates of a place to gas up and grab some supplies before you go after the loot.

Rupert

Encryption: The cryptogram makes use of a modified Vigenere utilizing letters, commas, periods, and numbers.