🕵️ MISSION: Caching & Cache Retrieval
How to place and service a concealed, pre-positioned store — distinct from dead drops. Covers buried, magnetic, and hidden-in-plain-sight caches, plus placement and retrieval procedures.
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📖 Field Manual
Caching & Cache Retrieval
A cache is a concealed, pre-positioned store of equipment, supplies, or intelligence placed for later retrieval. Unlike a dead drop — which is an exchange between two parties — a cache is placed by one operative and recovered by the same (or a designated) operative later. There is no second party present.
Why Cache?
Caches solve a core problem: you can't carry everything, and you can't risk a live exchange every time. A cache lets you:
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Access gear without carrying it through checkpoints
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Store intel packages for pickup mid-operation
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🛡️ The Golden Rules of HQ
Never use field techniques on private property without permission.
Never hide or transport anything dangerous, messy, or valuable.
Always operate within boundaries set by your parents or guardians.
Debrief your Handler after every mission — no exceptions.