The GMs can go back and see what you had a while back. The problem is determining how it left your inventory.

Did you drop it? Did you sell it? Did you hand it to an NPC? Did you destroy it? Did you trade it to someone? Did you die and leave it on your corpse? Did you die and did your corpse decay? Did you die and did you have your friend loot your corpse? Did you turn it in as part of a quest? Did you accidentally "Combine" it in your sewing kit?

We have logs to determine when some of these things happen, but not all of them, and none of these instances should result in the return of an item through GM intervention.

Sometimes the GM can return a lost item without too much worry. An example would be a NODROP item that is not a quest component. If you lose a NODROP item that is not a quest component, and you tell the GM, the GM just has to see if you've had the item recently, and if so, he or she will reimburse it.

But this leads me to ask a question, how often are people *really* losing items due to bugs? I'd like to hear this and the circumstances surrounding it. I'll ask the people involved in the Tribunal outage the other day not to respond because I'm sure you were effected. What I mean is, who really just had an item go *poof*?

In over 30 days p-time and well over 40 levels on my play character, I've never lost an item. Of the 3 people who I grouped with, all the way from level 7, only one of them lost an item due to a bug. She had a glowing torch turn into a pair of cloth pants after being charmed.

-Gordon