Postmodernist Zoo Mystery Cache
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Adelaide Zoo has always been a major part of the city. This cache is outside the zoo but depending on the time you'll get to hear and/or smell it's exhibits.
All things eventually change and so post-modernism has even caught up with zoo fund-raising. The latest director of funding has decided that sponsorship based on actual costs is just sooooo 20th century. Discriminating against animals just because they are cheap or expensive, attractive of cute just represents the underlying class structure repressing the underprivileged in our male dominated society. As such she has decided that funding shall be based on the animals common name. Dollar values from $1 to $26 dollars have been assigned to the letters of the alphabet. For each animal it's sponsorship costs with be the sum of the value of the letters in it's name. For example for DINGO D,I,N,G,O might equal $1, $3, $10, $16 and $20 so the sponsorship costs will be $50. As we can't support any letter in preference to another, for that surely be letterist, each letter will have a unique value that will be randomly generated. With these ideas in mind she has supplied the latest sponsorship prices as follows.
BABOON = $62,
BILBY = $49,
CHEETAH = $85,
CIVET = $66,
EMU = $27,
FENIC FOX = $69,
FLAMINGO = $75,
IGUANA = $70,
JAGUAR = $81,
KANGAROO = $106,
KOALA = $58,
MEERCAT = $72,
ORYX = $52,
OTTER = $60,
QUOLL = $49,
RED PANDA = $104,
SEALION = $83,
WALLABY = $74,
Furthermore the use of ADELAIDE in promotional material will cost $99 and ZOO $50.
If anyone cares to voice an opinion then the comments book, which isn't very big so don't bother writing much, can be found at S34 54.(KxExF+C) E138 36.(TxBxE+W)
The little 'x' above represents multiply.
Except the cache isn't fiction, it's small and black and can be found at the calculated location.
Happy hunting.
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