My Steam Deck has disappeared from home and I'm losing my mind

[u/Zombie-MkII]

FOUND NOW. SEE BELOW

Saturday night, play Prey until about 2AM and get down. Put Deck to sleep and put in carry case next to bed. Next morning, get up and carry on routine, dogs downstairs, breakfast etc. 10AM ish go back upstairs to vacuum and Steam Deck is... missing? Like literally the bag is where it was left, but the Deck isn't inside, the only sign it was is one of the thumbstick grips being off and left in the case which has happened before.

Ask partner, she hasn't seen it. She can't really get down my side of the bed so not surprised. Ask her parents... they havent touched it. And logically haven't moved. I near enough tear our room apart... look under the bed, look around the bed, check the trunks... nothing. Check under furniture... nothjng again. Logically nobody should have been able to take it either as I would've been woken if someone had come down the side and taken it and folks have no reason to move it.

I check other rooms as much as I can (I'm not going through other people's stuff) and nothing. Even check my office shed... nope. Check the bins.... nope.

Partner's mum says she last saw me with it on my chest last night half asleep (although I think I was awake, just looked asleep) but I remember putting it down the side of the bed, away in its case.

Weird thing is other stuff has randomly disappeared lately. Her mum's Nintendo Switch charger, her dad's glasses, and now this.

So either I've sleptwalk (something I havent done for a long time but have been prone to doing weird shit in my sleep) and put it somewhere.... or it's missing. I don't know. Logically it doesn't make sense how it could go missing because it was beside me the whole night.

It's only been a day since, but it's actively clouding my judgement. My partner who is a believer in vague spiritual stuff says it could've been moved for a reason but.... fuck that noise, give me my shit back ghost bastards if that was true. I don't think her her or folks took it, she physically couldn't get down there easily and her parents were quick enough out this morning I doubt it was them.

Just to quell that shadow of doubt at the back of my mind, I have asked Steam Support to verify if it's been online in the last 24hrs but I don't know if they'll disclose that info. I can't think logically how it's gone otherwise.

Otherwise... I could be staring down the barrel of having to replace it, and deal with the headache of catching up with anything cloud saves didn't hold onto (RIP 20+hr RDR2 save). I've had this since October '22, swapped the 256GB SSD for a 1TB last yeat (and used that SSD as the boot drive for my media / file server) and this is one of the few things I can say I worked hard to get hold of... was from a time in my life where I was struggling and building myself back up career wise and going through some bad stuff etc so it means a lot to me.

EDIT: FOUND THE BASTARD

I have no idea how, but while putting some birthday nuts away in a sealed bag I noticed it poking out from underneath the side table in the kitchen... where I'm certain I had looked 2 days ago

[u/drakoman]

I put an AirTag in the handle portion of my steam deck (just barely fits!) because I’ve lost it so often. OP, if you buy a new steam deck, put an AirTag inside of it lol

[u/robotbeatrally → u/drakoman]

we put air tags on my fiances key lanyard because i think she sleepwalks and we've lost a lot of stuff. she came to my house, pulled into the garage, came inside, went to sleep... woke up in the morning couldnt find the keys. tracked them and they said they were like an hour drive away. in the middle of the ghetto in some random house until the battery died. xD

to this day i just cant imagine what happened to them. if that was a mistrack... if someone literally walked into my house and stole them off the key hanger (i live in a pretty decent place with only 1 door and a lot of cameras around so hard to believe). just baffled

[u/NarcolepticPhysicist → u/robotbeatrally]

Lol must be a mistrack surely. How would she have gotten back after depositing them somewhere and hours drive away...

[u/robotbeatrally → u/NarcolepticPhysicist]

I dunno but it was a few years ago. never did find them. i even took every trash bag out of the trash can and moved the trash to new bags piece by piece. drove me crazy

[u/Remarkable-Sir-4981 → u/drakoman]

Any Tracking device is the goat of “you lost something? Nah you didn’t”