Bestowal Dialogue
'The look on your face is quite a thing to see, my confused friend! Welcome to Isengard! You have had a number of adventures, I expect, and would you believe that we have as well? We have all come a long way from Lothlórien, haven't we?
'Much of the trip was rather unpleasant, owing to our new friends Uglúk and Grishnákh. I suppose they're old friends now; we shan't be seeing them again, and that is a relief. Treebeard and Quickbeam are nice fellows, if a little odd. And I do believe I have grown several inches taller!'
Pippin laughs at your confused look.
'I don't mean metaphorically, <name>, though perhaps I have at that. I mean that I actually have grown taller!'
Background
Merry and Pippin have made themselves quite at home at Isengard, but much of their story is still a mystery to you.
Objective 1
Merry is outside the gate of Isengard.
- Pippin: 'Merry and I have been through a great deal. And I really am taller now! Can you not tell?'
- Merry: 'I think Pip is trying to confuse you on purpose, <name>. He gets the chance to do that so infrequently that he delights in it whenever the opportunity presents itself.
- 'It seems we have gone from the fire back into the frying pan, for once! Pip and I were dragged halfway across Rohan by our captors, and though we have arrived at Isengard, it was in the strong hands of a friend and not at the whips of Saruman's Orcs! It was Treebeard who brought us here, you see, and he is... well, he is Fangorn and Fangorn is he, apparently!
- 'This is more difficult than I expected when I began to tell it! We found some pipe-weed inside the gate-house. How about you bring some more out here and I will try to tell it properly?'
Objective 2
- Enter the gate-house and look for the pipe-weed Merry mentioned
Merry asked you to go inside the gate-house and bring out some more of the pipe-weed they found there.
- Merry: 'We found some pipe-weed inside the gate-house. Go inside and bring some more of it out here, and I will try to tell you the tale properly.'
- The gate-house is filled with rubble, and the flood-waters have reached here too
- Collected the Pipe-weed
Objective 3
- Bring the pipe-weed to Merry outside the gate-house
Merry asked you to go inside the gate-house and bring out some more of the pipe-weed they found there.
- Aragorn: Aragorn nods at you, but says nothing.
- Pippin: Pippin smiles at you amiably.
- Merry: 'Ah, very good, my friend! This is a very high-quality pipe-weed of the sort they grow in the Southfarthing, back home. Allow me to refill my pipe and I can resume my story. I was going to tell you about Treebeard and the Ents, I believe. Let me see...
- 'But it seems that Aragorn is troubled about something. Perhaps you should speak with him first, and I will continue my story when he has a happier look about him!'
Objective 4
Aragorn is outside the gate-house at Isengard, and wears a concerned expression.
- Pippin: 'Strider always looks so grim.'
- Merry: 'Aragorn does not look pleased. To be fair, he often looks this way, but I suspect he is less pleased than usual!'
- Aragorn: 'That pipe-weed was not grown at Isengard, and it does not bear a resemblance only to that of the Southfarthing. That weed has come from the Shire, which means that Saruman has had his eye upon that land for some while, at least. I do not like that at all.
- 'If our fortune holds, the Wizard will have no further chance for mischief. His interest in the Shire may have extended only to its pipe-weed.'
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