
This leads through to the major instance ending the questline, and this one was a very great deal of fun. It feels like a distraction … which in fact is more or less what it is, because immediately after we help save Walstow we go immediately back to Snowburn which itself is now attacked. This is an instance – we do not actually have to gallop across the Sutcrofts (pity), but to be honest I think it is one of the weaker instances in Eastemnet. There is a certain amount of satisfaction in that – but there is no time to celebrate because almost immediately we are sent flying back to Walstow which has again come under attack. Eventually however the real spy oversteps his mark, and is apprehended. Initially upon our return the spy plot that simmered under the surface when last we were here takes centre ground, amid a minor witch-hunt. He comes across as really quite young – which is what he is so this is actually a very effective representation of his character.

Fastred means well, but he has a tendency to charge out the door before putting his boots on. Snowbourn remains much the same, a town under threat with less than ideal leadership. Last I wrote about LOTRO we had left Walstow in somewhat better state than we found it, and were being sent back to Snowbourn.
