Its Only Matter of Time ....
Having been released from the place of custody
just down the hill on Friday, I had little but a plastic
Temporasack containing my possessions and a cheque for £43.00 as my
release grant. Buses don't take cheques and nor do
taxis. How far is the nearest town. Why don't they give us
maps? After three months of being a good boy because I
couldn't be anything else, now I am free and able to walk again at
least.
Let me begin at the beginning......
Slippage, that's a term
that's used to mean leave port in a ship or to lose time. I
have certainly done that. Some Slovenian or a Croatian
scuffer caught me, red handed almost. I hadn't hurt anyone
and all I stole was a box from an empty house. A box long
forgotten by its true owners I thought and to whom the contents
were precious, I understood. I was paid well to fetch it but
my benefactor never saw a return. This investigator heard I
was planning the heist and laid in wait for me in secret. He
wasn't interested in justice, I don't think, greed was the thing
that drove him and still does. I felt him close to me as I left the
scene and was able to quickly hide the stash before he closed
in. Upset that he hadn't caught me with the box he had me
framed as a common thief and I served a spell for the crown.
Actually I served some and was given some on the tag that I am
wearing now. That is one of the reasons I am not looking for
the box myself but hoping you will help me find it. I cannot
leave a 5 mile area and I have a curfew after dark. I left
some clues hidden it in boxes in some woods but I wont tell you
here where to find them. Instead I have devised a number of
box locations some of which will give you clues to the final
location and some that will give you information about the final
stash. Read everything carefully and you will have the
rewards you deserve. I cant go get the map myself, as the guy that
put me away is still watching me like a hawk and hoping I will lead
him to the stash.
From my place of incarceration head SE to a
lay-by not more than half a mile from the wall. Look here for
the four stages of life and name the first and the third
only. Leave the final letter of the third stage off and
convert the others to numbers in the conventional way A = 1 B = 2.
These numbers become ABC and DEF. Ignore the leading digit of any
that equate to over 9. What year was the woodland purchased?
Answer = 19GH and what colour is the rarer of the hairstreaks found
here? Select the first and fourth letter of this colour only and
again convert to numbers which we will call JK
Walk on now to N51° [J+K]
[B-C].AE[H-E] W1° [D-F]A.EAH ... I sat here to rest
and look back on my past few months. How may logs? I sat on
one of LM and I leaned against NP.
Wanting to put the casual stalker off I left a clue
to the cache location at N51° 50.[L+M][M*N][L+L] W1°
05.[L+P][M*M][N*N] and it is here that you will find the
coordinates of a micro that will lead you to the final cache and
the symbol that you will need to locate the map. In my rush
to hide the box and evade pursuit all I remember of the location
was a Oak tree on my left followed by an Rowan tree on the
right...or was that the other way around? Here I turned East and
paced about 15 strides and then scribbled the note you will find
here. I ran all the way to thesite and slammed the canister
into its hidey hole in haste. What can I say to describe the
location for you? The undergrowth is denser on the way there and a
large tree has fallen and its not far before I emerged from the
woodland. The final box is located beside the footpath and is
well hidden. There just wasn't time to take accurate readings so
the cache is within 10 paces of the coordinates you get. A
little bird said you would know if you had the right place ...
Please return the disguise to the box as you find it and help me
mask the trail. I know I ran further South West before.......
to be continued....
