All right, so I'm a bit of an idiot. I should have made sure my laptop was plugged in, or paid attention to the warning about low power. But I didn't, so the battery went dead and it took something like 3-4 minutes to get back in-game. It happens.
But I have to ask, why was my hurlable war hammer gone? All the junk and loot had vanished, so the janitor must have visited, but at the same time the haversack I use to hold gems (kept on the ground to reduce burden) remained. Obviously there are ways to track this sort of thing, so why on earth are these mechanics not applied to the weapon class that by definition must leave the hunter's hand (and usually end up on the ground)?
This is the fourth nice HT weapon I've lost to bad mechanics, and I'm getting really frustrated here - finding such weapons for sale is a chore, and they seemed DESIGNED to disappear at the earliest opportunity. Release Toss-O-Rama again or fix HT weapons, please - it's long overdue.
The pulzone lands a powerful strike that pokes the steel-tipped pulzone into the gryphon's rear end (more embarrassing than painful!).
The steel-tipped pulzone lodges itself shallowly into the forest gryphon!