Confiscated items, where are they?

[Lord English]

Are items taken from you during a search, or when caught in the act, stored somewhere or do they dissappear into the ether?

[VirusCode_X]

Not sure, maybe they are on the guard that took them. I haven't tested that yet but will try killing and looting the guard that took stolen items to see if he has them in his inventory

[kooto]

Wait till guard will go to sleep and steal confiscated items back. Didnt check myself tho :)

[PsychoPsyops]

I found that even stolen items you drop on the ground anywhere before you get caught and pay up also magically disappear. So much for realism.

[Kayhan]

Originally posted by Godvernment:

I found that even stolen items you drop on the ground anywhere before you get caught and pay up also magically disappear. So much for realism.

Peasants steal your items.

[Sarina]

Probably it was returned to where it was stolen from? (that location is marked on the stolen item)

[NewRaven]

Originally posted by Godvernment:

I found that even stolen items you drop on the ground anywhere before you get caught and pay up also magically disappear. So much for realism.

Because it would be much more realistic for the guards to check your character, even check your horse but totally ignore the 50 items on the ground right next to your feet when searching for stolen stuff, right? ;)

[Tempered]

I once dropped a bunch of poisoned meat on the ground to kill some dogs. The dogs never died, but later I killed a guy in the area and he had all the poisoned meat in his inventory when I looted his corpse.

[_onyx_]

Originally posted by Godvernment:

I found that even stolen items you drop on the ground anywhere before you get caught and pay up also magically disappear. So much for realism.

You have been pickpocketed.

[W33DMAN89]

From my experience every time my stolen items get confiscated the guard will have the items on him and you can either pickpocket and get them back or try to knock them out or kill them and loot the body to get everything back. 9 times out of 10 that has been the case for me.

[40ozKilla]

Originally posted by W33DMAN74:

From my experience every time my stolen items get confiscated the guard will have the items on him and you can either pickpocket and get them back or try to knock them out or kill them and loot the body to get everything back. 9 times out of 10 that has been the case for me.

Yup I stole the queen of shebas sword after I found the 5 pieces because I didn't want to pay the guy to forge it. Forgot it was in my inventory, got caught with stolen items in ledetcko, didn't care Iforgot I had the stolen sword on me. Remembered like a week later IRL when I couldn't find the sword in my inventory. I went back to ledetcko killed every guard and eventually I found the one who had my sword lol

[VirusCode_X]

That's pretty cool that the guard hung onto the sword for so long

[Nanoha]

I realise this is an old thread but I stumbled on it when trying to find where all these confiscated items go myself. Posting this for future searchers.

Early on I stole a load of books (including the speech book) from Rattay. A guard caught me and before he could search me I started dumping all the stolen stuff on the ground thinking I was clever and could just pick it back up. All the stuff disappeared. Days, hours, weeks later I learnt more about the game and I wanted that speech book back (I believe it's the only copy?). Found this thread and decided to give it a try.

I went to Rattay at night and knocked out every guard I could. I stole their headwear so I'd know who I had checked, finally I came across a guard with about 20 books on him, including the damn speech book.

Here he is:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2855034953

[Lord English]

Thank you for taking the time to confirm it and providing a definite answer.