'Would you mind speaking to Tom and retrieving my manuscript from him? I am most interested to hear what he thought of it, now that he has had plenty of time to read!'1/1
1 Speak toTom Bombadil (Show dialog)
You ask Tom what he thought of Bingo's manuscript, but the strange fellow is only puzzled.
'Your words are all a-scramble, young one. Tom remembers a great many things: the sun in the morning, the breezes of mid-day, the swelter of afternoon, and the cool of evening; but he does not know the pages of which you speak. There is no need for writing! If you spend all the day writing, that is a day you have missed!
'Do not look so glum! I am sure this writing will turn up. I may have set it down outside. There are so many things to see, happy distractions all, and sometimes things get lost. All is found in the end, hey!'1/1
2 Speak toBingo Boffin (Show dialog)
'Tom has misplaced my manuscript? Oh, bother! I know there wasn't yet much of it, but I still keenly feel its loss! I will not be able to recreate exactly what I wrote the first time! Perhaps I should just abandon this endeavour. I am not a writer, and I am not an adventurer!'
You seek to console the unhappy hobbit, and soon Bingo is slightly less despondent.
'Perhaps you're right, Player. Tom is most at home outdoors. Perhaps he set it down somewhere nearby. Can you look around in the vicinity and see if you see any pages of my manuscript? I do not want to lose the record of this journey so near the start of it!'1/1
3 Use spawned itemFind Bingo's manuscript somewhere outside near Tom Bombadil's house1/1
4 Use spawned itemSearch north of Tom Bombadil's house for more pages of Bingo's manuscript1/1
5.1) Speak toBingo Boffin (Show dialog)
'Thank you for finding part of my manuscript, Player. Tom must have set it down outside and the wind took it, carrying pages north among the trees. You found some of them, but it seems to me that the rest of the pages must have been carried further north... into the Barrow-downs.'
Bingo shivers.
'That place has a frightful reputation and I did not plan to explore it, but now it seems I have no choice! We have to search the Barrow-downs for the remainder of the missing pages! It looks as if I am missing the section of my journal that concerns my swimming lesson and the section dealing with our departure from the Shire. After we are finished in the Barrow-downs, we should travel back to Newbury to bring Marigold home. I will see you there.'1/1
5.2) Speak toMarigold Boffin (Show dialog)
'You found some of cousin Bingo's missing pages on the path to the north, didn't you? That way leads to the Barrow-downs! If you are going to brave that spooky place, so am I! A hero never runs away from a challenge, no matter how scary!
'I have heard that some frightful creatures make their homes among the burial mounds of Men in the Barrow-downs, and we will need to face some of them if we go there. Watch out for ravenous barghests and giant crawlers, for they will be watching out for you!'1/1
6.1) KillBarghests in the Barrow-downs (x/6)6/6
6.2) KillCrawlers in the Barrow-downs (x/4)4/4
6.3) Use spawned itemFind the section of manuscript concerning Bingo's swimming lesson1/1
6.4) Use spawned itemFind the section of manuscript concerning Bingo's departure from the Shire1/1
7 Speak toBingo Boffin (Show dialog)
'We have all returned safely from the Barrow-downs, and I have exhausted my supply of adjectives with which to describe them, Player! There are only so many ways I can convey how unhappy I was to be walking among those mounds!
'I learned a valuable lesson, too: do not let folk read my book before it is quite finished! Tom did not mean any harm by it, but I do not want to risk losing any more of these pages in frightful places. Tracking down pages is quite a tiresome activity, wouldn't you say?
'Prisca is quite cross with me, as well. She thinks that it was my idea to go jaunting about in the Barrow-downs, when it was the furthest idea in my head. That was mostly Marigold's idea!'1/1
8.1) Speak to(Show dialog)
'That was amazing, Player! The Barrow-downs were everything I had hoped they would be! I was never scared, not really.
'I will need to come up with something truly exciting to top this most recent adventure!'1/1
8.2) Speak toPrisca Boffin (Show dialog)
'I have scolded Marigold before, and it never seems to do any good. The girl is always going off on these adventures. Adventures! More like mischief and bother, if you ask me!
'It was good to see my cousin Bingo for a short while, but I must ask him to be off as soon as he can. Either he has been a bad influence on Marigold or she has been a bad influence on him, but either way there is entirely too much adventurous spirit between them!
'We Boffins have been many things, but heroes? I don't know about that!'1/1
9 Speak toBingo Boffin (Show dialog)
'Ah, Prisca will calm down in time. She always does. Now I will visit with all my various cousins, once removed, and do my best to talk Marigold out of the adventuring business.
'I don't think I will succeed, and just between you and me, Player, I don't think I want to! She will make a fine hero, if that is what she wants to be, and Prisca will just have to get used to it!
'But don't tell her I said that. We still need a place to stay until our journey resumes!'
Next week: 'The Two Taverns' (Recommended Level: 24)1/1
Bingo Badge (5)