All the items except the Coffee spawn and are usually up or down within a few minutes.
All the items go into your inventory, which is odd.
Also, all the items dissappear when you take them...
There are at least two locations for each item. Just because its not up in one place does not mean it will be up in another....meaning, there is a high degree of probability that you will be waiting for more than one item for over an hour.
This is perhaps the worst quest in EQ2 and maybe the worst one in terms of its design.
All the items are small and VERY easy to miss. The are dull color as well. You CAN highlight the items, but you have to be withint a few meters to actually pick them up....people have trouble with the soup on the rock. You can climb up that rock like the poster said.
The one item you will have problems with is the coffee. I am currently waiting and have tow characters waiting for this item. It just does not spawn and seems to be on a much longer timer than any of the 5 other items.