Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-29984007-20170712165254/@comment-28783361-20170719213123

I just checked Stineford with the Arcane Crystal, and it worked with or without it being equipped. It does use the same coding as the other item checks, so it shouldn't inherently be a problem.

Here's what I think the actual problem is: in the scene with the Incubus Emperor and the scene right at the bridge, it checks to see what you have and checks to see if it's either in the inventory or equipped. The check works normally except the problem is that these are personal items belonging to people who aren't actually in the party at the moment so if they've got the items equipped then those items can't be found by the game.

At the Ardford bridges check, the only person in the active party is Simon, so if Aka has her knife equipped then it won't show up in the inventory.

At the clash of the Incubus Kings, Robin is the only person in the active party, so if Simon has the glove or the lustplate equipped, it won't show up in the inventory either.

Unequipping those items when you have the chance is the short-term fix, but the crude fix might be if Sierra just adds the party member in question to the active party right before the check and then boots them out right afterwards or something.