Beneath

....a gnome?
.....ok, I'm hoping it'll turn up lost somewhere in the age to the side and missed because... stealing a garden gnome? I mean, *seriously*?! At first I thought the camera theft and such was part of the whole "get out" vandalism, but.. maybe we just have an honest to goodness kleptomaniac on our hands who is stealing random things they come across.

So if you come across an olympic-class weightlifter with a heek table stuffed down their pants...

Honestly, why not both? Some of the thefts don't line up with one motive, but do with another. Could be we're looking at a klepto and a group of miscreants? Who knows.

Gnomes. I swear.

Somebody saw a gnome belonging to another and their first reaction was "I'm going to acquire that."

We are clearly dealing with a disturbed mind.

I'm sorry... a-a gnome?
Err... well. That's an unusual thing to have down here in the first place, let alone someone feeling the need to take it.

And the possibility of real gnomes in Ages or the Cavern is... well. Interesting.

As far as I can tell from photos I've since received, it's a stock variety Garden Gnome model, just painted traffic cone orange.

...It's probably just been mistaken for a cone.