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The 5th of November Mystery Cache

Hidden : 10/30/2010
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is an anniversary cache, as I celebrate my birthday! Hiding a cache so you can find it is a way for us to remember this day. Read carefully the quotes below:



Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.


First, the overture. Yes. Yes, the strings. Listen carefully, can you hear it? Now the brass. I can hear it! Look outside, Mommy! They're playing music! How do you do that? Wait. Here comes the crescendo! How beautiful, is it not? Gentlemen, you have had four hours. You had better have results. A recording device was found wired into the central emergency-broadcast system. Add it to the blacklist. I never want to hear that again.


I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares more is none. Very good. My mum, she used to read all his plays to me and ever since, I've always wanted to act. Be in plays, movies. Can I ask about what you said on the telly? Yes. Did you mean it? Every word. You really think blowing up Parliament's going to make this country a better place? There's no certainty, only opportunity. You can be pretty certain that if anyone does show up, Creedy'll black-bag every one of them. People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. And you'll make that happen by blowing up a building? The building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world. I wish I believed that was possible. But every time I've seen this world change, it's always been for the worse.


"Vi veri veniversum vivus vici". Personal motto? That's about trying to cheat the devil, isn't it?


I wanna ask a question, Dominic. I don't care if you answer me or not. The question I want to ask is about St. Mary's. The question that's kept me up for the last 24 hours, the question I have to ask, is: What if the worst, the most horrifying biological attack in this country's history was not the work of religious extremists? Well, I don't understand. We know it was. They were caught. They confessed. And they were executed. I know. And maybe that's really what happened. But I see this chain of events, these coincidences, and I have to ask: What if that isn't what happened? What if someone else unleashed that virus? What if someone else killed all those people? Would you really wanna know who it was? Sure. Even if it was someone working for this government?


It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place. But for three years, I had roses and apologized to no one. I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An inch. It is small, and it is fragile, and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us. I hope that, whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean, when I tell you that, even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you. Valerie.


It's time. Tell me, do you like music, Mr. Finch? That music? Yes. His music. Who was he? He was my father, and my mother. My brother. My friend. He was you, and me. He was all of us. No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man, and what he meant to me.



The cache is not at the given coordinates (The Victoria Palace - Government Headquarters). Solve the puzzle to find the real ones.

Cache is hidden at N 44°2a.bcd E 026° 0e.fgh Please take a pen with you.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

zbivr (sbe gur chmmyr) / nhghza yrnirf (sbe gur pnpur)

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)