Shattered Kingdoms

I was tired last night as I was finishing up, and this happened. I've already reported it iccly as well. Let's see if any of you can think of an alternative to a bug, but I'm pretty sure that's what it is--

I came back to town, refilled all my water containers, and cleaned up my coin count at the bank. (Deposited all my silver and copper and turned it into platinum and gold.) Then I got thirsty, took my refilled canteen out of my cloak, drank, and refilled it in the Plaza. Immediately after refilling the canteen, I put it back in my cloak. After that, I went to several training schools in town and trained up some of my skills. At this point, I was running pretty low on cash, but I still had enough left to LEVEL on the cheap at the Newbie School with Sukra. I put my money in 1.sack and went there.

When I arrived and wanted to 'take all.coin from sack', I was informed that the 'sack' was no longer a container. I was not told that there was a hole in it, that it had worn out, or anything else plausible. I also never got a message that my coin had fallen out of the sack on the way to the school.

After that, I decided to check my other containers, too. Everything looked right, except my canteen, of all things, had disappeared from my cloak. Now, with the skill set I have currently, I should have been alerted if someone had succeeded in stealing such an item from me during the brief time it was out being refilled. Even if I am wrong about that, I can't believe anyone would bother.

First time anything this bizarre has happened to me. Anyone else experiencing similiar problems? Anyone have a clue what's going on?

Often times you have problems getting things from containers if there is a similar item in the room, for example on the floor.

If you have your sack, in your inventory or equipped if there is anything in the room that begins with sack then when you try to "get all sack" it looks in the sack on the ground and in this case it is not a container.

Same thing happens when you have an item that starts with lets say sw, like a sweater for example. If there was a door to the southwest that was locked and you typed "unlock sw" it will say it cannot be unlocked because it tries the sweater first.

Quite annoying at times....

Also mind that this may prove quite dangerous should you want to bash sw, and there is a guy called Swath in the room.

I've actually had the same problem in the past, though not for a while. I'll examine a specific container, the list of items inside won't be returned along with its long description, and any attempt to remove them yields "That's not a container." Then a few hours or days later, the problem seems to have solved itself.

I never did figure out what's going on with that.

Ok. Still doesn't explain the missing canteen from my cloak. I could see everything else I have stored there. It is just the canteen that is missing. A rogue might have stolen it while I was filling it at the well, but shouldn't I have received a message of some sort? I get messages about INVIS players now.

It may have been stolen, and if it was then you do not recieve a message unless the thief fails.

Or, when you filled it and placed it in the cloak, there may have been ANOTHER cloak on the floor. Thus, your canteen is in that other cloak.

Well, whoever got my canteen, have fun with it!

It would be nice to have the option to default commands to personal inventory or room contents--maybe an extra parameter could be added or another auto toggle?

Anyway, thanks for the explanation(s).

Now that you know, man, it won't be that hard. Just look at the room first, then exam 1.cloak, 2.cloak etc so that you make sure you put in/take from the right one

This type of things happens quite frequently. Don't fret. ... I quite frequently still make mistakes like this.

sleeper