One of the five scarecrows in Wendell Brindle's field has started walking, a step a night, ever since he put the farm up for sale. It won't move while he's watching. Keep watch by it after dark, and see where it's got to by morning.
Quest item: 
Brindle Strongbox
Steps
- Keep watch by the scarecrows in Wendell's field after dark. By morning, one of them will have moved · Brindle Farm
- One of the scarecrows walked off in the night. Find where it stands now, and keep watch by it another night
- It walked again. Find it, and keep watch by it one more night
- It walked again. Find where it stands now
- It's stopped short of wherever it was going. Work out where that is, and see what's there
- Bring the strongbox to Wendell at Brindle Farm · Brindle Farm
Reward
The Scarecrow Hat (island camps and ambushes don't rise for you), 250 gold and XP (
hat:scarecrow)
Dialogue
Starting it
- “One of my scarecrows has started walking. A step a night, ever since I put the farm up for sale. I'm not saying those two things are connected. I'm just saying the timing's rude.”
- “Now, I'd watch it myself. I tried. Sat out there two nights with a lantern, and it didn't move an inch. The night I went to bed, off it went. So it's not shy. It's shy of me.”
- “So you sit out by it after dark. It doesn't know you. Come morning, find where it's got to, and sit by it again. I'd like to know where it's going before I sell the place out from under it.”
- “Have a good look at them now. My wife made all five. She could tell them apart. I never could. She said the same about my brothers.”
Talking to them again
- “It only goes at night. Never while you're looking. It's either shy or it's polite. I never could tell those two apart.”
- “Wherever it stood last, that's where you wait. It's not wandering, either. Wandering I'd understand. This one's got somewhere to be.”
Handing it in
- “That's a Brindle strongbox. That's my wife's. She buried it the year we had the good harvest. Never told me where.”
- “She must've known I'd sell up one day, and she didn't want it going with the land. So she told the scarecrow. They always did get along. He listened. I'm told that's the trick.”
- “Here. Take his hat. He walked all that way, he can stand bareheaded a while. He's earned the breeze.”
After it is done
- “He walked himself back to the row. No hat, facing the house. I took the farm off the market. I don't think he's up for another trip.”
At the hand-in without the item
- “It went somewhere, and you came back here. That's the opposite of following.”
When your bag is full
- “Your bag's full. I'd hold the hat for you, but it's been on a scarecrow. I've got standards. Low ones, but they're mine.”