unforum

[MrToasty]

[addlepated]

Woohoo! I got a message from a shadowy character offering help. Bless you, PMs.

[addlepated]

Oddly enough I couldn't dial the number from my home phone, but could with my cell. There's a recording there with a connection code for legacy clients, which I'm hoping is the combination to get into the storage space. I've got a better feeling about going back than I did a little while ago.

ETA: I accidentally called the main Surer Risk number first and a live person answered the phone with "Hello?"

ETA^2: I bet a lot of this angst could have prevented if I had just dialed the bloody number when I found it.

[MrToasty]

[addlepated]

Ahh, just got a helpful message from The Fan on the VD forum recommending I bring a flashlight and wear work clothes. Also an offer to help out via Twitter, but I am not sure of his or her nick there - is that Violettesdream?

So many, many thanks to the PMs for the in-character nudges. Nicely done. I hope I didn't come off as too much of a whiner!

I should be in Fredericksburg by noon Saturday, if not earlier, and I will update as much as I can, probably by Twitter since it's quickest (when it's working).
https://twitter.com/addlepated

Those interested are welcome to follow along.

[MrToasty]

I'm liking the PMs more all the time.
I for one will have phone updates on for you on Twitter should I happen to be out when you're in the thick of it.
Oh, and yes, the Fan's Twitter is
http://twitter.com/violettesdream/

[addlepated]

[addlepated]

I'm kind of copying and pasting this from the Violette's Dream forum since it's long, but there's a little more at the end I want to say -

I called the storage place and asked if there was an office or something there; there's not. I panicked a little bit - the notations meant nothing to me and I wasn't sure what to do if I encountered a lock. Happily, I got a quick email from Jock Forsythe asking if I'd called that phone number yet. (duh! on me) I called it and there was a message saying that the number was out of service as of July, 2008, but legacy clients could call extension 2493 for service. Hmm, that sounds like a combo lock, right? DC helped further by saying that between the circled page number 49 and the A=?, I might be looking for unit A-49. And The Fan said that usually the combinations are four numbers long.

Armed with all the information that I thought I needed, we headed back to Fredericksburg this morning to pick up the rest of the cache. On the way, we passed an amusing little restaurant.

[img]http://gallery.addlepated.net/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=8562&g2_serialNumber=1[/img]

When we got to the storage place, we found unit A49 and our hopes soared.

[img]http://gallery.addlepated.net/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=8566&g2_serialNumber=1[/img]

And glory - there was a combination lock on there. Check out what it was set to - "1944"!

[img]http://gallery.addlepated.net/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=8569&g2_serialNumber=1[/img]

We opened the lock using the "2493" code and found an ammo can.

[img]http://gallery.addlepated.net/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=8572&g2_serialNumber=1[/img]

Inside the can we found an envelope filled with money and a gold bar.

[img]http://gallery.addlepated.net/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=8575&g2_serialNumber=1[/img]

We also found instructions for the new Peter Hayder:

[img]http://gallery.addlepated.net/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=8578&g2_serialNumber=1[/img]

Interesting. Since this cache was not picked up by 1998, it seems like they reassigned the Peter Hayder identity to the man currently working at Surer Risk.

We tried heading over to the Dietzel Motel just in case they still had that 10 year old reservation -

[img]http://gallery.addlepated.net/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=8581&g2_serialNumber=1[/img]

- but they had no reservation for Peter Hayder, and no packages for him. I think this was the end of the trail.

Additionally, there was a phone number for an operative who shall remain unnamed. I called him and he asked if we could meet in Austin on Monday so that he could give me some gold. Real gold. []

I'll be sure to report back once that happens. In the meantime, I hope this information helps those trying to uncover what's been going on here.

---

About the gold: I spoke with one of the game publishers, whose name and number were on a card in the cache. He told me that they were very excited at the retrieval of this, the first cache. I believe that there are many like it in different places. I'm going to meet him on Monday and he said he has some gold for me. This ties into what the creative developer said a while back about finding real gold via the game.

Definitely not your ordinary game swag!

Edit: None of the pics are showing up for some reason, but you can see them at my gallery here - http://gallery.addlepated.net/main.php?g2_itemId=8559

[veebee]

WAY TO GO! Well done and thank you! ( Yeah, me lurk you long time!)
I'm glad this is all working out so nicely, and that you have been rewarded for your efforts. The best of luck to whoever is near the next cache....
(damn, no kissy emoticon. Have one of these instead.. !)

[MrToasty]

Wow, that is all kinds of awesome!! I hope your husband was happy with the outcome.

Now if there would just happen to be a cache in Iowa...

[Vecheeso]

I just hopped onto this one, so, I hope there are some in Florida (preferably Titusville, Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Merritt Island, or, Orlando, since they are the closest lol.)
If there is any here that you find about, lemme know and me and im sure some others can go and get it

[Nighthawk]

[addlepated]

[Vecheeso]

[miss_seph]

Ok, I come to play too, after reading addie's blog post