You find something! but it was in my backpack...

[Othob Rithol 700]

On deed, had been packing a few tiles, took a few sprouts, planning a new area for livestock.

 

[02:44:22] You dig a hole.

[02:44:23] You start to dig.

[02:44:29] You find something! You found a scissors! 

 

I examine the scissors on the ground. I can not pick them up.

 

[02:45:17] Rough and clumsy, but pretty sharp scissors. You will want to polish the scissors with a pelt before you improve it.

[02:45:17] Since its creator tag has faded, you decide to keep history alive by scratching your name on it. Afterwards you proudly read 'Othobj.'.

[02:45:17] Circle of Cunning has been cast on it, so it will increase skill gained with it when used. [86]

 

These are the scissors I had added to my inventory about a half hour earlier to shear sheep. They were in my inventory, in a backpack but not in any groups (I don't use groups)

 

[02:45:41] You drop a scissors.

 

I dropped the ones I had. No new item was created.

 

[02:45:48] You get a scissors.

 

I was able to pick up the phantom scissors I had "dug up"

 

I have seen similar behavior occasionally when shoeing a horse. One of the shoes will be duplicated on a tile the animal was on. You can examine but not take. Dropping the shoe on the same tile allows the phantom to be taken.

Edited November 15, 2014 by Othob Rithol