We were trying to run Lost Cave, but first run, George suddenly disapears out of thin air at end, just before we got into end room. No warninigs, full hp. And other kids too just vanished shortly after. And 2nd try the door into first ending area shuts after a few sec. Never happened this way before, and kids used to last alot longer just a couple weeks ago? Been using longer time on runs before, and never had these issues.

- Sigtyr

I know about the vanishing kids. Had that happen before, very annoying.
All npcs get refreshed not and then. They do not expire, they get refreshed based on their number.
It keeps the game sane, but it does have these side effects.

About the door, only thing I can guess is that someone closed it on last run.
When you then enter, the remaining opening time is counted down. Will be short then.
But that's only a guess and I can be 1000% wrong

I can accept the refreshing part, but I'm sure no one closed the door the first run. It was open for like 3-4 sec, then shut close. Strange thing, but we made it trough after alot of back and forth, as it made things pretty annoying, not having all players/npcs and door shutting in our face.


-Sigtyr

If the kids are sequentially numbered, which I think they are, and the respawning happens then they will disappear one at a time, about 1 minute apart. Marky is probably right.
Note this can happen to any character in the game

It happens on a cycle of about 8192 minutes or roughly 6 days.

No explanation on the door without being able to repeat it, unless it also reset and by some strange chance the item reset and the character reset coincided.

The door seemed to let us trough at last as I said, so might have been some sort of a reset or something to the door too.

-Sigtyr

Bad door!

I will have words with its parents.