'${PLAYER}, hello. I have received a message for you from a fellow Expert Treasure Hunter: a request for your services. We must always stick together, for ours is a profession that others are prone to resent. Jealousy, I say!

'It is a secret and exclusive club, ${PLAYER}, this brotherhood of Expert Treasure Hunters, and we must encourage and lend aid to our own.

'Travel to Oatbarton, the hobbit-village on the very northern border of the Shire, almost in Evendim, and speak to Ponto.'

Ponto Oats is in the village of Oatbarton.

Ponto is waiting to speak with you about his plan to take care of the mean-tempered brigand in Dwaling.

Objectives

• Talk to Ponto Oats and travel to Dwaling

Ponto Oats is in the village of Oatbarton.

Ponto is waiting to speak with you about your theft of the brigand's club.

Objectives

• Talk to Ponto Oats