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All Is Just Mystery Cache

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The Rat: I am archiving this cache because it gets few finders now and because I am trying to lighten my maintenance load. Also, it's a good location that should be freed up. I might use it myself someday if it's still free, but I don't have dibs on it.

The puzzle is based on the Soundex system used by many people, including genealogists (including Jeannie All Is Just - get it?). It's a clever and practical pre-computer coding system for names that is very error-tolerant, encoding similar spellings and similar-sounding names into one code. It's also used by law enforcement data base systems. When the police "run your name in the computer" you can't prevent them from finding your criminal record by misspelling Johnson as Jansen. They're coded the same. In 1918 when this system was devised, the general public didn't spell so well and census, church, property, and other records often contained different spellings but you could still identify someone. For this puzzle Jeannie was trying to locate U.S. Presidents from whom she might have been descended. You can take it from there.

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Hidden : 1/7/2015
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Special Agent Cliff Knowles walked into the holding area, having been summoned by the Special Agent in Charge.
"What's up, boss?'
"Cliff, there's been a robbery at the Library of Congress. A woman was seen trying to steal some documents dating to early American history, presidential letters, things like that.  After she was caught, librarians audited the collection and discovered many others missing. They've seen this woman in there many times and believe she must have them stashed somewhere. The documents are very valuable. The woman isn't talking. She invoked her Miranda rights so we can't question her any more. She belongs to some weird cult, too. I'd like you to look over this evidence and give me your take on it."
"What kind of cult?"
"It's called All Is Just. We thought it might be a terrorist group, but it turns out they're peaceful and don't even appear to be associated with any known terrorist group or even the Middle East. They claim to be the chosen few, all descended from Revolutionary War heroes or former presidents, sort of like the D.A.R. The woman was probably trying to find evidence to back up those beliefs."
"What's her name?"
"Jeannie. We don't know her true last name. They all take All Is Just as their surname, similar to how the Sikh men take the name Singh and the women take Gaur. We did recover some evidence from her, though, in addition to the stolen letters in the lining of her coat. A note. Maybe if we can decrypt it, we can find where she stashed the other documents." He handed Cliff the note. It had the following alphanumeric characters:
N250 H200 P420  V516 T460 G614 C453 O150
Cliff studied the note, then went online for several minutes. After some searching, he announced, "Boss, I think I know where she stashed the documents."
 


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: Fnl gur shyy anzr bs gur fhfcrpg bhg ybhq snfg n srj gvzrf.

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)