Shellhead wrote: Partial good news. As part of an exhaustive search of my basement, I dug through a pile of empty cardboard boxes that I was saving for the next time one of my friends moved. Two of the boxes at the bottom of the pile were not empty. One contained irrelevant stuff to be sorted and mostly tossed, but the other one contained about 2/3 of the missing stuff that I feared was stolen. It's all in nice condition, not at all affected by moisture, dust, insects, whatever. This gives me hope that a thorough search of four more closets may yield the rest of the missing stuff. There are likely some boxes that I skipped over in previous searches because I deemed them too small to hold all the missing stuff, but could potentially hold the remaining 1/3 of missing stuff.
I put off this search for way too long, spending the last two years dreading the possibility that one of my new friends was a thief. Even if I somehow never find the rest of the stuff, it's Stormbringer and Call of Cthulhu stuff that can be extracted from that site listed on the previous page. And I feel that I can let go of the idea that anybody stole from me, which feels great.
Relief with a twinge of guilt, I would have. Glad I found it, but feeling guilty that I actually thought a friend was a thief.