Wasn't this a quest posted on the board though?
Those quests are intentionally like that, because they are posted there for any runner who happens to be passing by and has the time to go out and do it. Plus, as another poster pointed out, it runs directly parallel to Errol's stuff to the point you actually have to go out of your way not to do it, so it's basically world building exposition disguised as a quest. It's essential to the game because it gives the world depth at the cost of nothing to the player other than hitting the F key on a bunch of objects laying directly in your path anyway. Once you bring them back you also get some flavor art in your room emphasizing that the building is a living, thriving place that you are simply more of a moving part of rather than a single entity in.
It's one of the cooler parts of the quest design in the game, actually, because there are numerous "one off" quests like this that overlap on other stuff that you can do inbetween other quests that add a layer of depth on top of the world that helps breath life into it and makes it feel more like a real place in the world vs. just some random tropical level you do quests in.
