Rucksack

**Milo's rucksack** is a rucksack that Milo Pine found in the Emporium. According to Mr. Pine, it was the city scout bag of Milo's grandfather.

## History

### *Greenglass House*

Milo found a red striped canvas rucksack while exploring the Emporium with Meddy, and put his things into it. He used the bag to carry things such as the Gems of Ultimate Puissance and Negret's keys, along with other things he found in the Emporium. He carried it with him most of the time he was playing Negret.

Milo took out some graph paper and started to make a map of Greenglass House, on Meddy's request. He then took an Odd Trails manual out of his rucksack and read about escaladeurs.

Meddy delivered the news that things had been stolen from the guests. Milo grabbed his rucksack and went downstairs. He later took the map out and used it to find disturbances in the Emporium, and thus the hiding place of Mrs. Hereward's bag. He noted that there had previously been space on the sailcloth for Milo, Meddy, and Milo's rucksack, but now there was only space for one kid. He put the things he'd found into his rucksack temporarily. Meddy took out the pad of paper and a pen, and they wrote down their clues.

After camouflaging the stolen things as Christmas gifts, Milo put the bags into his rucksack to carry them downstairs. Before bed, he read *The Raconteur's Commonplace Book* and used it as a footrest. Mr. Pine saw the bag and asked where it had come from, and Milo said that he'd found it in the Emporium. Mr. Pine theorized that it was the old City Scout bag that had belonged to Milo's grandfather, who would be very happy that Milo had found it.

Milo took out of his bag a lantern that he'd found in the Emporium and asked his father to light it. Milo realized that it was the lantern of Julian Roamer, and took out of his rucksack the tinder and flint he'd found near it in the attic. He planned to give it to Mrs. Hereward. In the night, Milo heard someone sneaking around. He got out his rucksack, and took out a mirror and his keys. He then went to find out who was sneaking around, but did not manage to see who it was. In the morning, he told Meddy what had happened, and on her request, picked up the rucksack and hurried downstairs to find out if anything else had been stolen. He set it down and watched Mrs. Hereward and Fenster attempt to make a cake. Meddy later reminded him that he had a present to open, and so he opened it. He found Mr. Pine's Odd Trails figurine, and tucked it into the inside pocket of his rucksack to keep it safe.

Georgie gave Milo the nautical chart back, and a photograph of the fourth-floor window; and Clem gave Milo a lockpick kit. He put these into his rucksack, along with the spiral notepad with the clues written on it. They then went to search for Dr. Gowervine's satchel, which had gone missing. Someone locked Milo and Meddy in a room on the fourth floor. Milo put down his rucksack, took out the lockpicks, and tried them, but he didn't know how to use them. He also took out Wildthorn's Crackerjack Gauntlets to help him get into character, but he still could not unlock the door. After he was released from the room, he got the extra room keys and put them into his rucksack so that they could not be stolen again.

Milo went out to see the garden, putting the nautical chart into his rucksack and leaving it inside. After Milo returned from the garden, he grabbed his rucksack, got out the notebook, and went over clues with Meddy behind the Christmas tree. He then left to tell his parents what he'd realized: Mr. Vinge was the thief and the customs agent. He found his rucksack right where he'd left it, took out *The Raconteur's Commonplace Book*, and read it. He later put it back into his rucksack and went to help Meddy watch the guests.

Mr. Vinge told a tale in which he painted Doc Holystone as a weapons smuggler and a danger to society. In the story, a customs agent had found Doc Holystone's house by way of the watermark on a map that had details of a shipment encoded on it. Milo, knowing the map was in his bag and that Mr. Vinge thought Doc Holystone had made it, began to wish he had gone to hide his rucksack instead of putting it on so he'd have it while he observed the guests.

When Mr. Vinge pulled out a gun and two of his thugs arrived, Milo ran for the Emporium. He arrived, realized the bang he'd heard was a gunshot, took off his rucksack, and began to cry. Meddy suggested that it would be easier for him to focus if he became Negret, so he opened his rucksack and gave Meddy (who had now revealed herself as Addie Whitcher) a key so he could unlock the door if Mr. Vinge had locked up the guests. He then laid out the clues he had.

Milo realized the location of Doc Holystone's final cargo, and with Meddy's help trapped a customs agent in the Emporium. Milo ran out of the attic and felt his rucksack bouncing against his back. He took out Wildthorn's Crackerjack Gauntlets and climbed down the fire escape. He checked to make sure his rucksack hadn't come open, then entered the living room. He used a lockpick from his rucksack to open the ship chandelier and find the Sirin figurine.

### *Ghosts of Greenglass House*

When going on an adventure, Milo took the rucksack from where it hung from his chair, and put into it everything he had handy that he thought he would need (spiral pad, pen, lockpicks, Wildthorn's Crackerjack Gauntlets, and *The Raconteur's Commonplace Book*). In the Emporium, he added more to its contents: an Odd Trails manual and Slywhisker's Crimson Casket of Relics. Milo kept these things in his rucksack and took it with him where he went with Meddy, occasionally taking out something inside of it before replacing it.

When Milo found the keys outside, he put them into his rucksack. Gilawfer and Vinge tried to get Milo to hand them over, but Milo had trouble getting the rucksack open (first his hands were too cold to work the buckles, then the straps got tangled), and was eventually saved and went inside with the rucksack still in it. Rob then succeeded in getting Milo to hand it over, but Mr. Larven avoided letting Rob get them. Milo later took the keys back out again.

## Physical characteristics

The rucksack is made of canvas and has red stripes. It has an inner pocket that zips.

## Contents

* Lansdegown keys
* Gems of Ultimate Puissance
* Wildthorn's Crackerjack Gauntlets
* Julian's lantern
* *The Raconteur's Commonplace Book*
* Odd Trails manuals
* Lockpicks
* Spiral pad
* Pen
* Ball of string
* English-Mandarin dictionary
* Slywhisker's Crimson Casket of Relics
	+ Ocher Pages of Invisible Wards
	+ Ever-Sharp Inscriber of Rose-Colored Destinies
	+ Flask of Winds and Voids
	+ Feather locus
* Lock from Violet Cross's haul
* Derrotero (formerly)