Quest:Needles and Haystacks

Needles and Haystacks
Level	142
Type	Solo
Starts with	Little Pip
Starts at	Tadrent
Start Region	Belfalas (King's Gondor)
Map Ref	[74.1S, 62.2W]
Ends with	Little Pip
Ends at	Tadrent
End Region	Belfalas (King's Gondor)
Map Ref	[74.1S, 62.2W]
Quest Group	The Havens of Belfalas (King's Gondor)

Quest Chain

Tadrent (King's Gondor) Quests

[142] To Tadrent - vector from Calembel
[142] An Overwhelming and Irritating Din
[142] Dismantling Makham Mijann
[142] Lily-picking
[142] Deliver to Ost Lontir -vector to Ost Lontir
[142] The Drakes of Belfalas -vector to Dol Amroth

[142] Needles and Haystacks
[142] A Surprising Find

[142] Making the Rounds at Tadrent
[142] Scouting the Way-crossing

[142] The Solitary Beacon-warden
[142] What Was Left Behind

Walkthrough & Notes
You can search the haystack until the quest advances to objective 2 (six searches), or you can go talk to Meldis across town (Item:Erebrandir's Horseshoe doesn't appear to affect anything here)

Rewards
47 75 3 Marks of Renewal Increased Reputation with The Renewal of Gondor ( 700 ) Legendary Item Experience

Quest Text

Bestowal Dialogue

'You there! Do you think you might help me with a most exhausting task? My friends were helping me with it until a few minutes ago, but they all gave up and went home. They'll be sorry, they will, when I find the treasure! Vexed Meldis told me she lost a golden needle in this haystack... somehow... and if i found it she'd allow me to keep it!'

You ask Little Pip how someone could come to lose a needle in something like a haystack, and he rolls his eyes.

'You might as well ask why she's called Vexed Meldis, stranger!'

As it seems to be expected of you, you ask why she's called Vexed Meldis.

'Because she's always upset about something... usually about how loud me and my friends are being! Are you going to help me look for this needle?'

Background

Little Pip has been put to work searching a particular haystack in King's Gondor... for something.

Objective 1

Search the haystack in question until you find something... or look for another solution

You have stumbled into the affairs of Little Pip and Vexed Meldis. Does one of Tadrent's haystacks hold a valuable treasure?

Little Pip: 'Are you going to help me search? Vexed Meldis says there's a needle in this haystack!'

You search through the haystack in question... but find nothing

There's nothing hidden in that haystack after all

Vexed Meldis: 'Yes? Can I help you?

'I did tell that noisy child and his friends that I lost a golden needl ein that haystack, but it was a necessary deception. They were driving me quite mad with their incessant shouting! They are still looking for it? What a brilliant ruse... I should have thought of it sooner!

'No, there's no golden needle in that haystack. Imagine what sort of fool would lose a needle there... and what sort of fool would spend time searching for such a thing!'

Objective 2

Wait...

There is no needle in that haystack after all.

There's nothing hidden in that haystack after all

Objective 3

Talk to Little Pip by the haystack in question

Little Pip stands by the haystack in question at the northern entrance of Tadrent, in King's Gondor.

Little Pip: 'There is no golden needle in this haystack at all, is there? Vexed Meldis lied to me! Now I am the one who is vexed!'

The boy stamps his foot.

'We have to do something about this! I don't like feeling this irritable, stranger! Is this what Vexed Meldis feels like ALL THE TIME?'