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The Pattern Mystery Cache

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Indigo Parrish: And so the end comes, as it must to all things. Thank you to the 67 different cachers over the last decade who took up the challenge of finding this bonus cache. We are kindred spirits.


We ready our gear now, Merlin and I, and soon he will summon a wispy roadway.

When all is done in that place, and when Merlin has walked his Pattern and gone to claim his worlds, there is a journey that I must make. I must ride to the place where I planted the limb of old Ygg, visit the tree it has grown to. I must see what has become of the Pattern I drew to the sound of pigeons on the Champs-Élysées. If it leads me to another universe, as I now believe it will, I must go there, to see how I have wrought.

The roadway drifts before us, rising up to the Courts in the distance. The time has come. We mount and move forward.

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Hidden : 6/11/2008
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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The Pattern

Here's another bonus cache based on the "Chronicles of Amber" series of five sci-fi/fantasy novels by Roger Zelazny.

Deep in the dungeons of Castle Amber lies a mysterious and powerful labyrinth called "The Pattern" that is intimately connected with Amber's power over all Shadows. When one is at the center of The Pattern, one has the ability to project oneself to any place in the multiverse simply by wishing oneself there.

However, walking to the center of The Pattern is an ordeal by fire that only blood descendants of the royal family can physically endure. Successfully traversing to the center of The Pattern endows one with the ability to walk through Shadows simply by imagining the world changing into that which you desire as you walk.

The Bonus Cache

The fourteen members of the royal family all contain a clue to the solution for this cache :

Dramatis Personæ (14 caches)
Benedict Bleys Brand Caine Corwin
(our hero)
Deirdre Eric
Fiona Flora Gerard Julian Llewella Oberon
(the King)
Random

FTF and STF prizes are paperback copies of Nine Princes in Amber.

The cache container also contains a clue to solving the other bonus cache Nine Princes in Amber.
Moreover, Nine Princes in Amber contains inside its cache container a major clue for how to solve this cache. Solving either one therefore helps with the other.

BONUS: You may claim an additional smiley for this cache if you post a photo of yourself holding all fourteen trumps and standing at the center of the object at the bogus coordinates.

Good luck as you walk The Pattern!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[progressive] Jnyx gur Cnggrea! Jung'f ng gur pragre bs gur Cnggrea? Nygubhtu snzvyl zrzoref erfrzoyr rnpu bgure gurl ner npghnyyl qvssrerag. Pbagnpg zr sbe zber uvagf vs lbh ner oybpxrq.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)