Who eat all the LOTRO pies?

Having walked down to The Shire in LOTRO the other day (my goodness, it's a boring place), I have been picking up low level quests from all sorts of people. The latest one involves pies and it's slightly different from other "fetch me" LOTRO quests in that it is both time limited and has other failure parameters. While these all work fine, I made a few mistakes by not fully understanding what I was supposed to do.

The quest starts by collecting some eggs on a farm in The Shire, but while collecting the eggs from the hen, you must avoid the cockerel who will make you drop the eggs. It's relatively easy to do if you hide behind the hen houses when the cockerel is approaching. You then have take the basket of eggs over to the next village. Here's where the concept of carrying comes in. When you carry something in these types of quests, the items aren't just added to your inventory as they are in other fetching quests. Instead, you get a blue bar on the screen that counts from when you start - the times differ, but the key thing to note is that it's often not just the time that can make you fail the quest.

Get involved in a fight and the quest can fail. Also the post and pie quests have other parameters - avoid nosey and hungry hobbits. If you come close to one of these, then you will fail. You can see which hobbits are marked as "Nosey Hobbits" or "Hungry Hobbits" as they have yellow markers with these tags above them. Other normal hobbits do not count and won't make you fail the quests.

Additionally, just accepting the quest doesn't give you the basket or pie, it makes you eligible to pick the item up to carry - you still have to go next to the quest giver and pick up the item. I forgot to do this twice and ran pointlessly halfway across The Shire.

Lastly, if you fail one of these quests, unlike failing other LOTRO quests, this will remove that quest or quest part from the quest tracker and you need to go back to the giver again, talk to them and accept the quest again before you can pick up the item.

This pie quest that culminates in requiring you to get the pies back from twelve people is a huge Shire roaming one and is quite time consuming, though it does have a deed reward, so it's worth doing. I'll try an compile a list of where the pies are as I go, but even though it's a low level quest, it takes a long time to complete.

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