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Fate Of Childhood Series - Adventure #3 LbNA #5329 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Aug 20, 2003
Location:
City:Portland
County:Multnomah
State:Oregon
Boxes:4
Found by: Maiden1974 (3)
Last found:Mar 31, 2005
Status:FFFa
Last edited:Aug 20, 2003
An Evil Sorcerer name Mukesh has decided that the world would be a happier place without the sound of children singing. To seal this fate he has stolen important key items and characters out of the Magical Children’s Songbook. In doing so he has made it impossible for these songs to ever be sung again and made it impossible for childhood to exist, as we know it in future generations. The only thing we can depend on now is you our Hero. You must remember these songs from memory of your childhood days, and find the characters before it is too late! Without these songs children may never experience happy childhoods again and the world will become riddled with evil!

When last we left you in this little sordid story you had rescued The Worm, The Doggy, The Rubber Ducky and The Cracker Jack Boy and his little dog too! But that is not all the characters and items that Mukesh kidnapped! This time the stage and theme is a little different though. There is still however a method to Mukesh’s madness. His last escapade was at a playground; this one however takes place in another location children play at, a park! One located in the Washington Park area of Portland. You need to head toward Center City and look for a large water fountain that is near a statue of the Pioneer Mother Sacagawea. Mukesh still on his evil mission continued the demented singing of a children’s song while committing this dreadful crime! As he secured each character and item in it’s place you could hear his devious voice echoing “Ring around the roseies, pocket full of posies, ashes ashes we all fall down!” What on earth could it mean? Ring around the rosies? We all fall down? You might keep reminding yourself that it’s all about going around things as you follow the clues. (You might even keep signing it if you really feel like it.)

There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed A Fly:

Starting at the water fountain take the path that Sacagawea points too and cross the road. When given an option to go left or right Mukesh our Evil Sorcerer went right on a dirt path. He kept going and going, determined that this time his attempts would not be foiled and these characters and items would be ones that surely nobody would find! Soon he came across some stairs on his right hand side. Some really long stairs. He looked up and saw and older looking house in the near distance. Surely the house of some old lady he thought to himself. “There was an old lady that swallowed a fly” he said, and then went up that many steps and found a pile of rocks just to the left of the stairs. He trapped the fly under them and it is there waiting for you and hoping that you will come save it! You better hurry; flies don’t have a long life span you know!

The Good Ship Lollipop Letterbox:

Heading back to the base of the stairs Mukesh decided to continue on his path taking the dirt road until it circled around a bend and then walked through two poles that were painted white. Hmm this road looks a little familiar doesn’t it? Why sure! You saw this road from the head of the trail; gosh do you feel like your playing ring around the rosies? Going in circles perhaps? As you walk up this road do you sort of feel something eerie? Like perhaps evil has been here before you? Well of course Mukesh was here! But wait, it is something else. Doesn’t it sort of seem like this road might have had water in it at one point with the drains in the middle, the moss growing on the side? Maybe like a dried up riverbed? Mukesh thought so too! As a matter of fact he thought it looked so much like that that here on the right side of the road just a ways past the stairs inside a tree of three that appears like tall masts he hid the lollipop. Well of course the Good Ship Lollipop can’t go anywhere without the lollipop so it is stuck on dry land until you find it and set it free!

Mary Had A Little Lamb Letterbox: (This letterbox has had several people report it missing. It is still there alive and well as of 11-22-03 however.)

Mukesh kept traveling along this road until it took him up a long set of stairs. When you reach the top of the stairs look around. You see that cross walk? Could it be kind of like a school crossing? What’s that just ahead? Looks like what could have been (at least in our story) an old school house perhaps? And just off to the left there in that large grassy island; could that have been a playground perhaps? Walk through it and find a place to sit where you can watch traffic pass. Take a gander off to your right. What is it? Another path!! And there is a wall made of stone to the left. Did he really do it? Oh my! Mary’s Little Lamb was buried alive at the base of the rock wall. You better hurry and save her!

The Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round Letterbox:

From here head up the main road until you see the fountain again! Oh my you really are going in circles eh? You see the statue of Sacagawea again too! Take the path in front of her up to another playground. Have a seat on the bench closest to the teeter-totters. The wheels on the bus go round and round. How many wheels? Down to your left there is a plaque. How many characters are on it? Look ahead, you see that red brick area? Go over there and look for a place where Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington all meet. Directly across from Montana you will see another plaque. Add together all the numbers on the plaque for a four-digit sum. Now add those four digits together for a two-digit sum. From here, looking at the sign take a right and go down the steps. Then take an immediate left, now an immediate right, now an immediate right again and around the garden. Ring around the rosies! Ha! Ha! Ha! No really we just wanted you facing this direction as you exited the little garden circle. Now walk straight ahead taking the number of steps equivalent to the number of characters on the plaque. Nothing here huh? Okay now walk ahead the number of wheels you counted. Do you see that stump? Funky looking isn’t it? Guess what! That is Mukesh! That is right! You rescued enough of the characters and items that you conquered magic and somehow managed to turn his magic against him! When he was trying to trap the last item in place he was so flustered that you had foiled all his other attempts that he said the spell wrong and turned himself into this ugly stump right here! Congratulations!

Oh wait! You want that last letterbox don’t you? Well all right you deserve it! After all you are the Hero of Children’s Songs and the fate of children singing in merriment everywhere has been restored. So from the stump of Mukesh just a little to the right about the number of steps you added together on that last sign under the umbrella of a large tree a bus is waiting for you to take home. Hey! You see those stairs nearby? The ones that go down a long ways? Wonder where they go? In another circle of course!

Oh by the way. You might want to hold off on teaching the kids all the lyrics to the songs you helped save today. The ride home could be really loud and awful “merry”.

Happy Hunting!
Iron`Bear & pandora{HIB}