How is this suppose to work? Is the item going to be out in the open? Or do I need to just basically search the room for items? Do I need to look under stuff to find it? I've only done 3 tasks, and still trying to really understand this....

It's an "area" recovery.

Based off what I've seen listed by DR-Obseden in this post:

>>http://www.play.net/forums/messages.asp?forum=20&category=4&topic=42&message=58

This is an area based item recovery task.

How do I find the item in the area?

yeah, that differs from critter recovery. this is an example of critter recovery:

>task
You look in your task journal and see the following entry:

A street urchin wants you to recover a child's hammer from snowbeast near The Gash.

with area <room> its like the other poster said. go to the right area and kneel and search. if its the right area, you'll get a message such as "you search around but don't find the item you're looking for", or you do. that counts as a "perception" task.



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