Email2020-07-08 17:59

DP: 
The silver is tarnished significantly in places, the willow is old but for some reason not at all rotten.
Back of brooch is nothing special, there is a silver pin for fastening to a cloak or similar.
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Fair enough - it makes sense to ask the thief to take care of the party's most important find in this topsy-turvy world. (Whatever happened to those dungeons where the monsters used to go round with signs on them saying "You can attack me - I'm guaranteed to be level-appropriate for your party"?)
However, it might be a good idea for Dougal to use his drawing skills to make an accurate sketch of the brooch (probably in the back of his spell book) in case we need to get rid of it or have it taken off us - I do wonder if it might be usable as a locator beacon which was how the 'trolls' tracked it down.
I also wonder how you might keep a piece of silverware clean and un-tarnished when entwined in centuries old wicker-work. Darrell - does the brooch look appropriately tarnished, unnaturally unsullied, could the wicker-work be much newer that the silver etc? Also, I do assume that we had a good look at the back as well as the front of the brooch.