Is it possible for the city guards to steal your weapons during the "gang leader needs weapons" quest and not return them after you leave the city?

Still a very green player, maybe 10-15 hours playtime. I've done three or four "gang leader needs weapons" quests during the early game to offset troop costs.

On every occasion doing this quest, if I try to re-enter the city to give the gang leader their desired weapons, a guard will stop me at the gates telling me I can't be admitted with so many weapons. It's obviously part of the quest, because on any other occasion they don't care if I have 10 weapons or 100, so another 6 axes isn't going to raise any red flags. I can accept that it's a part of the quest challenge, however.

Anyway, until tonight, I found the guard always returned my non-quest weapons when I left the city. On this occasion, however, my weapons seem to still be missing even after I completed the quest. That is, not just the 6 axes for the quest, but the dozens of spare weapons I had in my inventory for smelting/trading.

I must've missed the status message telling me this. Would it have said the guard stole the weapons and wouldn't give them back? Is that even possible?

Unfortunately, my only earlier save game is probably an hour of playtime prior to all this happening. I could go back, but...ehh.

Any advice here? My options as far as I know:

• Reload my save file to recover the lost weapons (lets say 50ish, few worth more than 100-500g)

• Forget about it and move on

• Try to recover the weapons via some unknown method. For example, confronting the guard/city about the stolen goods (if that's even possible).

Any help is much appreciated.

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