Wanted: Manticore Spikes

Gather manticore tail spikes for an eccentric poet. 
The local (and quite eccentric) poet Iosis Vemarelian wants to write a complex epic using only pens crafted from manticore spikes. He wants a healthy collection of them at hand to see him through this strange epic. 
Source: Wanted poster Completion: Spikes can be harvested from a dead manticore
Reward: In exchange for delivery of the manticore spikes, Iosis promises payment in the form of a rare book of halfling poetry worth 200 gp.
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