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You look through the center window in the back of the barn but you can't see anything at all. The glass is broken and the window has been covered with plywood.\n\n[[Poke at the plywood|poke_plywood]]\n<<return "Done looking.">>

It's a small jack knife.\n\nYou don't have anything in particular you need to do with it. \n\n<<return "Put the jack knife away.">>

You are standing in a grassy park with trees in the distance. As you watch the birds fly overhead, you put your hands into your pockets and feel a small cold item in the left pocket and a soft squishy object in the right pocket.\n\n<>\n<<display "pocket_options">>\n\n<<if visited("Examine left pocket")>>\n <<if visited("Examine right pocket")>> \nYou see some trees ahead of you and decide to go investigate. [[Move toward trees|at_tree]]\n <<endif>>\n<<endif>>\n<<endnobr>>

It's a small lump of cheese.\n\nIt's wrapped nicely so perhaps it will make a good snack later.\n\n<<return "Put the cheese away.">>

You can't see anything through this window.\n\n<<return "Done looking.">>

You find a stick on the ground nearby and use it to poke around at the box. You wind the cobwebs around the stick and see a spider scurry away down the wall. Now that you can see into the box, it looks like the box is firmly attached to the wall and there is a plastic container in it.\n\n[[Reach down and get the plastic container|get_container]]

You reach in and feel cobwebs cling to your arm. A spider runs up your hand and you quickly fling it off into the grass.\n\nNow that you can see into the box, it looks like the box is firmly attached to the wall and there is a plastic container in it.\n\n[[Reach down and get the plastic container|get_container]]

Congratulations on finding this virtual cache!\n\nYou've completed the adventure.\n\n[[What's a cache?|explain_cache]]\n[[That was fun but it was too short. Is there another adventure?|more_adventures]]\n[[I'm not sure that was fun. (Send feedback)|send_feedback]]\n\n[[Tell me about the puzzles.|explain_puzzles]]

You walk over to the clump of <<print $cnt>> trees and try to decide which one is the tallest. \n\nAfter several minutes of trying to decide, you just look around the base of each of the trees. You find sticks and rocks but nothing unusual.\n\n[[Try a different group of trees|remember_WP1]]

You are now facing the right end of the barn. There is only one window here.\n\n[[Look in the window|look_barn_RE]] \n[[Go around the barn to the left|at_barn_front]]\n[[Go around the barn to the right|at_barn_back]]\n\n[[Revisit the WP#2 clue|remember_WP2]]

You walk slowly over to the group of trees. There doesn't seem to be much shade here and the trees sway easily in the light wind.\n\nYou look up into the thin branches and spot a small silver object dangling from one branch.\n\n[[Look around for a stick to poke the object with|WP1]]\n[[Tug on a branch to shake the object loose|WP1]]

"Nice work! You have found Way Point #2.\n\nTo find Way Point #3, add up the numbers in the lone barn that's even taller than you. Then, stand on the side of the barn with that many windows and walk up to the center window."\n\nThe trick with this one is to look for the numbers in the text that follows the phrase "add up the numbers in..."\n\nthe lone barn that's even taller than you\n\nSo, you're looking for the side of the barn that has 8 windows.\n\n<<return "Back">>

You are now facing the back side of the barn. There are 3 windows at ground level, and 5 smaller windows above that.\n\n[[Look in the center window|look_barn_back]] \n[[Go around the barn to the left|at_barn_RE]]\n[[Go around the barn to the right|at_barn_LE]]\n\n[[Revisit the WP#2 clue|remember_WP2]]\n

Pseudo Cache #1

As you walk up to the old barn, you realize that it has an unusual number of windows for a barn. In fact, it looks kind of like the half house - half barn structures you've heard about in the countrysides of Europe.\n\nAs you stand facing the barn, you can see a large door for machinery, a small entry door, and 5 windows.\n\n[[Revisit the WP#2 clue|remember_WP2]]\n\n[[Go up to the center window|at_barn_front]]\n[[Go around the barn to the left|at_barn_LE]]\n[[Go around the barn to the right|at_barn_RE]]

You are now facing the left end of the barn.\n\nThis end has one window at about eye level. The glass in one corner is broken.\n\n[[Look in the window|look_barn_LE]] \n[[Go around the barn to the left|at_barn_back]]\n[[Go around the barn to the right|at_barn_front]]\n\n[[Revisit the WP#2 clue|remember_WP2]]

This game used a total of 3 "Way Points". If you played in the real world, you would have started with a clue (e.g. the GPS coordinates) to find the first container. It is unusual to stumble across a geocache by accident, but it does happen.\n\nThe cache containers and locations might ressemble things we've seen in the real world. You'll know if you ever find them, won't you?\n\nThe puzzles are our own (no borrowing). \n\n[[Puzzle 1|puzzle1_1]]\n[[Puzzle 2|puzzle2_1]]\n\n[[Return to list of information|end_story]]\n

Loved it?\nHated it?\n\nLiked A but not B?\n\nSend feedback! \n\nNot every game will appeal to everyone, and that is perfectly fine. We love making games and we're happy to create a wide variety. Unlike the large (or "AAA") game studios, we operate nimbly on a small budget and it's not a problem to create many games to suit many different kinds of gamers.\n\nDon't get us wrong -- we love those big "AAA" games, too. We just understand that they have to think big market when they think big game.\n\n<a href='mailto:CopperMoonGames@gmail.com'>Contact Us</a>\n(Use coppermoongames @ gmail.com if the link doesn't work for you.)\n\n[[Back to the information list|end_story]]\n

What was that?\n\nAdventure Games have been around for many years in the video game world, the table-top game world, and in the REAL world as well. What you just played through is a virtual version of something that really does happen in the real world -- a "Pseudo Cache", perhaps. So, if you wish you could really go out to a park and find little objects in trees...well, you actually can.\n\nOne of the biggest real world forms is now called "Geocaching". You can read more about this at www.geocaching.com. (DISCLAIMER: we don't work for Groundspeak / Geocaching.com, and we're not creating advertising for them. Make sure you use THEIR rules if you go play outside.)\n\nGeocaching is great fun, but there are limitations. First, you are bound by reality. If you forgot to put tweezers in your pocket, you aren't going to have them. Sometimes that means you go back home and try again on another day! Second, geocaches can only be placed by permision of the property owners. Next, you have to be smart and not be seen opening or closing a geocache to avoid having non-cachers find and destroy the cache out of ignorance. If you get stuck on a puzzle, there aren't any hints, and there could be 50 clumps of trees to search. There are more limitations, but you're probably getting the idea.\n\nIn a video game, we can get around all of these if we choose. We can also go caching at 2 a.m. without causing suspicion.\n\nLook for more caching adventures in the months to come. We have some clever tricks that we could never get away with in the real world, and we think you'll be entertained.\n\nwww.CopperMoonGames.com\n\n<<return "Back to the information list.">>

As the silver container jostles around, you realize that there is an ivy vine that jiggles with it. You step closer and see that the ivy vine is a pretty nice looking vine...for a fake.\n\nYou gently tug on the ivy vine and the silver object comes down as if on the end of a retractable line. When it comes close, you unscrew the tiny lid. There is a small piece of paper rolled up inside. Using the tweezers from your jack knife, you slide the paper out of the tube and unroll it.\n\n<<display WP1_clue>>\n\nYou look to the southwest and spot 4 different groups of trees.\nYou gently return the paper to the container, close it, and let it retract into its hiding spot.\n\n[[Go to the clump of 3 trees |at_ntrees][$cnt=3]]\n[[Go to the clump of 5 trees |at_ntrees][$cnt=5]]\n[[Go to the clump of about 15 trees|at_15trees]]\n[[Go to the huge clump of trees (too many to count)|at_ntrees][$cnt="many"]]

You open the plastic bag and pull out the sheets of paper.\n\n<<display WP2_clue>>\n\nLooking around, you spy the top of an old red barn on the other side of a grassy hill. Placing the paper back into the plastic bag to keep it dry, you close up the container and gently place it back into its original spot.\n\n\n[[Go investigate the barn|at_barn]]

You reach in and pull out the plastic container. This one is also marked "Official Geocache". You open it and find a plastic bag with a notebook and pen inside.\n\nWhen you open the notebook, you realize that many people have found this box before you, and that they've recorded their visits with a date and comment. \n\nYou add your name and the date to the list.\n\n[[Well done.|end_story]]

"Congratulations on finding Way Point #1!\nIn order to find the next Way Point, add the number of letters in pi to the number of letters in the post office. Look to the southwest and locate a grassy area with a clump of this many trees. Way Point #2 is at the base of the tallest tree."\n\nHere, you need to count letters for the indicated words:\n\nadd the number of letters in pi to the number of letters in the post office\n\nSo you are adding 2 + 13 = 15.\n\n<<return "Back">>

You remember what the Way Point #2 note said:\n\n<<display WP2_clue>>\n\n\n<<return "I'm done reading.">>

You remember what the note said:\n\n<<display WP1_clue>>\n\nYou look to the southwest and spot 3 different groups of trees.\nYou gently return the paper to the container and let it retract into its hiding spot.\n\n\nYou think about the clue and then set out again.\n\n[[Go to the clump of 3 trees |at_ntrees][$cnt=3]]\n[[Go to the clump of 5 trees |at_ntrees][$cnt=5]]\n[[Go to the clump of about 15 trees|at_15trees]]\n[[Go to the huge clump of trees (too many to count)|at_ntrees][$cnt="many"]]

This is starting to look like a geocaching adventure.

As you stand facing the barn, you can see a large door for machinery, a small entry door, and 5 windows.\n\n[[Look in the center window|look_barn_front]]\n[[Go around the barn to the left|at_barn_LE]]\n[[Go around the barn to the right|at_barn_RE]]\n\n[[Revisit the WP#2 clue|remember_WP2]]

You walk over to the clump of 15 trees and try to decide which one is the tallest. It doesn't take long and soon you are pawing through the tall grass. Although, honestly, what are you even looking for?\n\nYour hand hits a metal box that is painted old army green and has a large symbol with the words "Official Geocache" on the side. You open it up and find a slightly damp pile of dime store toys -- plastic figurines, a top, a smiley face button, and a couple of crayons. There is a also some folded paper in a small plastic bag.\n\n[[Open the plastic bag|WP2]]\n

<<actions\n"Examine left pocket"\n"Examine right pocket"\n>>

You gently poke at the plywood and discover that it is not nailed to the window like you expected. Instead, it seems to be hinged at the top. You push a little harder near the bottom and the board swings inward enough for you to look down and see that there is a box attached to the wall just below the window.\n\n\n[[Reach into the box|reach_box]]\n[[Get a stick to poke at the box|stick_box]]

You peek in the window and notice that the barn might once have been divided into two halves, but if so that wall is gone now.\n\n<<return "Done looking.">>

It looks like nobody has used this barn for a long time. The floors looks dusty and there are a lot of cobwebs.\n\n<<return "Done looking.">>

by Copper Moon Games\n