The Cipher in the Inn
Group: Lord of the Rings · Tag: pc_harper · Priority: Lowest
| ID | Journal text | Awarded by | Items consumed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Halmir the Grey, keeper of the rolls of the old orders, has set me the Harpers' first errand: find his friend at the corner table of the Prancing Pony in Bree -- a traveller in a fern-green cloak -- sit with her in patience, and bring him back the word she trusts me with. | q_hrp_start | — | |
| 2 | The watcher at the Prancing Pony tested me with a line of road-cant -- each word written tail-first, the line read from its far end -- and I read it true: 'The Grey watches the West Road.' She trusted me with the counter-word, 'The road remembers,' and word of me goes north and south tonight, to Rivendell and the Golden Wood. I should carry the word back to Halmir at the Well of Eru. | q_hrp_solve | — | |
| 3 | final | Halmir heard the word and entered my name on the rolls of the Harper Scouts. He gave me the Harper Pin -- a harp and a crescent, worn beneath the collar, not upon it -- and the quiet watchers of the North now count me among their own. | q_hrp_finish | Harper Pin |