🚀 go-pugleaf

>>I just bought U7 (and am thoroughly impressed with the imterface) but
>>it seems the key I pick up at the stable keeps disappearing.  I imagine
>>I'll call Origin tomorrow to see what's up (or is it supposed to disappear?
>>Is the Guardian stealing your keys to make you insane?)  In the mean
>>time, however, I'd appreciate any responses via E-Mail to
>>DAA...@venus.tamu.edu.
>>
>>From what I understand from reading the newsgroups this 'vanishing key
>thing is a common error.  As to how to fix it, I'm not sure, other than
>to be sure you got lots of save games. (I think I had an entire bag of
>stuff dissappear once!)

I've been playing Ultima 7 extensively lately and found that the "vanishing
keys" problem isn't only restricted to keys.  Although it seems most of the
missing objects were keys, I also had about 30 lockpicks vanish as well as
some food and other useless objects.  Unfortunately the keys aren't so
useless and you could get in big time trouble missing some of them.  The only
solution I found was to keep ALL of the keys (or other valuables) kept in
a bag in one character's inventory and ALWAYS keep a count.  Save your games
a lot and it shouldn't be a problem.

One thing that I discovered was that it only seems to happen at night when
you sleep in the wilderness.  I begain to suspect it was because of theives,
but this seems too unfair to be the reason.  I never slept in any Inns,    
perhaps that would keep the problem away (?).

I finally finished that ^&$@! game, so if anyone needs any tips, drop me
a line.

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