The Royal Order of the Holy Mackerel*
- Average Rating:
- Created by:
My Name is Bill
- Submitted by:
CWillyPngn
- Start at:
N 38° 49.233 W 077° 15.780
- Location:
Virginia, United States
- Play Time:
Less than 1 hour
- Date Added:
9/23/2016 9:59 AM
- Last Updated:
2/23/2020 8:34 AM
- Downloads:
182
- Completions:
5
*2016 NoVAGO Murder Mystery Cache#9: The Royal Order of the Holy Mackerel (GC6N29P). This is a family friendly wherigo that takes place along the Long Branch Trail at Rutherford Park in Fairfax, VA.
About This Cartridge
The NoVAGO PD has requested that you meet with a super-secret society, the Royal Order of the Holy Mackerel, who is in desperate need of your help with their investigation of the strange supernatural activities at Rutherford Park, a former research facility of Diamondlog Enterprises. At this facility, Diamondlog Enterprises was conducting a top secret program called the Isosceles Project, which upon completion, would revolutionize the Geocaching world. Whatever dastardly deeds Diamondlog Enterprises is up to, the Isosceles Project was huge failure, and the project was abruptly shut down. Since then, the research facility in this area has been torn down, buried, and turned into the lovely park that you see here today. However, the residents in the surrounding community have reported seeing instances of unnatural creatures and oddities appearing in this park, which suggests that the Isosceles Project was not a failure as previously reported. Geocache Page: (visit link)
Starting Location
Parking Lot at Rutherford Park.
Parking can be accessed by taking Guinea Road.
Recent Cartridge Logs:
GLM played it on 6/10/2017
Rating:
I did my first whereigo back in 2008 and did not have a very good experience. Wound up following others with the proper equipment. 2009 tried another on in York PA and that was horrible as the cartridge kept locking up my PPC and had to keep starting over. Fast Forward to 2017. This is the first one I have done using the new android version of Where We Go. Took a bit of playing around, but once into the game, it went fine. Lots of reading. Some useful, some not so useful. Need to read so you don't get kicked back a spot or two. LOL This did work quite well and I did enjoy it once I got into it. There were times I wasn't sure if I was on the right track or not? Gayle was using her smartphone and got to a point, but I had to cross a creek and into the woods about100 feet away before mine kicked in????? Had no way of knowing if it was my phone, the software, or hardware? Once we completed the cartridge, I tried to enter in the completion code and it didn't work. Tried 15 characters and it didn't work. I thought I had down loaded the cartridge the night before, but couldn't find it, so Gayle emailed me the file. I had to use her name and my completion code because of that before it would accept it. Despite some minor things like that, it was fun. Enjoyed the walk along the trails and fields there.
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GoGayleGo played it on 6/10/2017
Rating:
I kept nagging at GLM that we should do a Wherigo - he didn't seem too keen on the idea, based on his prior experiences. My biggest issue with playing Wherigo on an Android phone is my poor phone battery, which I drain every time I do one of these. Now I know to carry a quick charger with me.
Had some initial issues figuring out "what to do next", but we eventually got into the swing of things. I was not fond of the punishments...have never seen them before and hope not to again.
Otherwise, we enjoyed the shady hike which was mostly on a paved trail.
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