Fortunately, this didn't hit again, but is an extremely problematic issue with people playing several alts that intermingle in unclear ways.
Basically, if someone dies, and someone has to pick up their things and carry off their corpse... then the next time such a death happens, if the person to accidentally do this is an alt of the original person, bad things happen to the person A's belongings, even if for instance, these incidents were months apart and so forgotten.
An easy solution would be to inpute some kind of a limit on the mule-catch triggering (or a difference between issuing warnings to GMs to investigate vs. auto-resolving the issue), possibly a time gate, to account for transfers of "A -> B -> A ; A ->C -> A" rather than "B -> A -> C" , when B and C are alts of the same player.
Fortunately, this didn't hit again, but is an extremely problematic issue with people playing several alts that intermingle in unclear ways.
Basically, if someone dies, and someone has to pick up their things and carry off their corpse... then the next time such a death happens, if the person to accidentally do this is an alt of the original person, bad things happen to the person A's belongings, even if for instance, these incidents were months apart and so forgotten.
An easy solution would be to inpute some kind of a limit on the mule-catch triggering (or a difference between issuing warnings to GMs to investigate vs. auto-resolving the issue), possibly a time gate, to account for transfers of "A -> B -> A ; A ->C -> A" rather than "B -> A -> C" , when B and C are alts of the same player.