After it was abandoned, I acquired the entire sum of the fortune
from Sergei's Legacy. You can read about the adventure in
my logs.
It turns out that re-geocaching is just the thing to get your
mind off of being broke. I'm now giving away all the laundered and
gambled proceeds from Sergei's fortune, and I hope that getting
this final stage back out into the field will keep the KGB off of
my front porch. After you have collected the appropriate keyword
from Sergei's
Missed Fortune #3, you can use it to find the final stage by
decoding this short, very cryptic message, received from Mr. Smith
over the summer of 2006.
Offset North Blue becomes Yellow February,7 39 / West Yellow
becomes Blue October,8 68
Although I did my best to spend it, the cache still contains
several million in cash and *most* of the gemstones, but don't be
greedy.
Update: 13-November-2006
I have made some progress in decoding the letter recovered from Mr.
Smith's computer (image
link ). Please contact me privately if you would like some
guidance with this task.