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Jabba

I have to say that from the photos, I can understand how hard it would have been to find! Leaf litter is the worst as it can hid little holes and all sorts unless you rummage through it all, because murphy's law... the bit you left unturned will be hiding the cache in a sneaky little nook. it was baptism by fire for you into geocaching!

**Posted:** Mon May 12, 2008 9:39 am

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Russell

Grats Setters! Now with the excitement of finding that one you should definitely go back to Gloucester =)

**Posted:** Mon May 12, 2008 10:16 am

setters393

3rd time lucky!

**Posted:** Tue May 13, 2008 10:56 am

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Sylvia · I Have No Life Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 2062

setters, I applaud you. Rock On

But, I hope the PMs have an alternate means of getting the necessary info to us, because I don't think we will be able to collect all the caches and as it was just demonstrated, parts are missing.

Hopefully, Pied-Piper can figure out the two letters like she did for the others. But the tin missing could also present another problem. The letter we need for the main shard/key puzzle may actually come from the name on the tin and not the phrase on the back of the tag (just specking, cause I'm not sure, it may come from something else altogether.)

Again, I applaud you.

**Posted:** Tue May 13, 2008 2:25 pm

zinc8900

Hello, everyone- i'm gonna join this arg, if you dont mind- im already a silver agent, and i cant be of much help becuase i do not live ANYWHERE near those places, but ill try to help as much as i can. Wink

EDIT: sorry guys, if i dont reply for a bit. i have a concert to perform in, and ill be shit tired, and then school the next day, oh, and then to rhode island! so I wont be on for a bit unless my sis lets me on her laptop. Cursing

**Posted:** Tue May 13, 2008 5:17 pm

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Jediwannabe

Re: 3rd time lucky!

**Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 5:11 am

Jediwannabe

I was right. There is a cache listed on geocaching.com which shares the EXACT same co-ordinates as shard number 6.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=81b058a7-ad54-457d-8343-5070d9793121

That explains why the contents of our cache are missing. Can the next person that sees Hazel, kindly throw your GPS at her for not bothering to check that her co-ords didn't co-incide with someone elses?

I've been able to view the records for this cache, and have found the user that has taken our swag - I'll be messaging him and see if we can organise some sort of dead-drop.

**Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 5:28 am

carmenmiranda · Decorated Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 226

Setters and Jedi, you are both heroes! That is fantastic! I cannot believe you went back for it, setters--I probably would have thrown my toys out of the pram and given up.

And Jedi, super well-done for tracking it down!

Weirdly, one of my workmates came up to me yesterday and said, "Oh, just to warn you, we might be asking you to go to Holland next week." He wasn't sure where yet, and it may or may not pan out, but usually when we have to go to Holland, it's the Amsterdam/Rotterdam area. It would be just too funny if my company paid for me to go pick up a shard.

**Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 5:59 am

Jediwannabe

I checked all the other cache co-ordinates, just to be on the safe side. One of the state-side ones is pretty close to another cache, but judging from the logs on the website, nobody has stumbled across it by accident yet.

I think we were just especially unlucky with shard 6 because the co-ordinates given were an EXACT match. The cache owner did make mention that he wasn't able to get an exact lock, so those are "best as" co-ordinates, but still - the fact that they exactly match the co-ordinates posted by TSR is unfathomably coincidental. Pat and Dave would no doubt call this "a sign", but I checked the cache owner, and the member that found our goodies, and they're both long-standing members with well fleshed out profiles and histories of finding and planting caches of their own, so if they ARE in-game characters, they're not "acting" - they really are what they claim to be.

**Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 6:30 am

Pied Piper · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 362

Good grief--I have network problems for ONE DAY, and I miss everything!

I second carmenmiranda on the kudos--hooray for setters, intrepid rookie geocacher! And thank goodness you thought of ways to track down the box, Jedi--inspired.

As for figuring out what the two letters are supposed to be in the cache, I don't know if there's a way to do that. I haven't found an exact correlation between the letters in a cache and which cache they are left in. Not saying there isn't one, because I haven't actually tried to find one. Yet. But one thing that makes me wonder if there is one is that we've got that one "odd man out" box with two of the other boxes listed in it, which tends to muddy the waters.

**Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 2:51 pm

Russell

Any news from that geocaher Jedi?

**Posted:** Thu May 15, 2008 3:48 am

carmenmiranda · Decorated Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 226

Oh, also, welcome zinc! Of course you're welcome! We don't know where half the shards are anyway, but there's always plenty of other solving stuff that we get stumped on and can use all of the brain power we can get!

**Posted:** Thu May 15, 2008 5:48 am

Jediwannabe

**Posted:** Thu May 15, 2008 7:46 am

Pied Piper · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 362

Wiki Update 5/18/08

**Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 5:18 am

Nighthawk

This feels like it's going slow. I mean, we got four (?) caches so far out of sixteen? If all of them are required, it's gonna be a long time...

And is the TSR main page coming up blank for anyone else?

**Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 4:22 pm

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