Quest 182

[primrosella]

[Voice Post]

[The audio begins with Rosella, sounding positively exasperated, with a fair amount of rustling, shuffling, and clattering going on in the background.]

All right, honestly, I know I tend to keep my room rather on the messy side, but throwing it all outside is hardly a proper solution for getting it cleaned up! It's absolutely

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[misterblackbird]

Rosella, if I may, why did you have nails, boards, and rocks in your room?

[primrosella]

Hm? Oh, hello, Cain. It's because I picked them up, of course.

[misterblackbird]

And why did you 'pick them up'?

[primrosella]

Well, the rocks were generally because I thought they looked interesting and had a bit of space in my pocket for them at the time. I rather forget how I came across the boards and nails, but one never knows when one might need one. They're rather small boards, though.

[misterblackbird]

I see.

But, all the same, as to the boards and nails, don't you think you could have gotten a board or a nail when you needed one rather than keeping them on hand like that?

[primrosella]

Well, suppose I didn't realize I needed one until it was too late, and then there wasn't any time to go find one? Or in the case of the nails, suppose I needed...oh, say, something long and thin to poke a key out of a keyhole? Then I'd make do with a nail, since I'd have one right on hand. It's mostly due to things like that, really.

[misterblackbird]

And yet, somehow, if you've all these things in your room, I wonder how you'd have them on hand when you needed them and weren't in your room.

[primrosella]

Oh. Er. Yes, well...they weren't in my room originally. They started out in my pockets, and then rather just, um, ended up in my room. Eventually.

[misterblackbird]

You must have very large pockets.

[primrosella]

You think I'm strange for carrying things like that around with me wherever I go, don't you.

[misterblackbird]

Just a bit. It isn't as though I don't have a few peculiar things with me, but not quite so many things as it sounds like you carry about.

[primrosella]

I can't help it, it's an old family habit. I picked it up from my father, who in turn picked it up from his--the rules of adventuring and all that.

[misterblackbird]

'Picked it up' in a rather literal way, I'd say.

[primrosella]

But of course. First you pick up the rules of adventuring, and then you learn to pick up everything else, too.

[misterblackbird]

It starts off innocently enough. How unfortunate that you now have to pick everything up again.

[primrosella]

I suppose it's about time I went through it all again, anyway. I just hope the really important things didn't get damaged when they were all flung out here this way.