Special Notes about the 2014 Puzzle Challenge: To be considered for Fastest Solver points, you must verify your solution with certitude. All "point" scoring is arbitrary, subject to change, at the discretion of the cache owner, and probably completely meaningless (unless you just want to be announced sooner at the celebration party, and even that might not happen in the right order). The real challenge is just to see whether you can solve all of these caches by the end of the year. To maintain fairness, hints should not be offered by the cache owner or other solvers until the fifteenth of the month.
Special Notes about this month's cache: Just getting something out quickly this month, as I have to travel. Let's see what happens when I submit a cache for review at midnight Central time. Cache will be rather visible; so try to cover the sides to make sure it can't be seen from a hundred yards away. 5:42 PM Central time. Was in meetings all day (from 7:30am Central), but Chrysalides sent an updated image that he assures me has the right inkblots. Cache area is open from 5am to 10pm Pacific time.
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.