Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190721003717/@comment-26907577-20191023131815

Well, you can't drop your items. You always have a weapon and armor equipped.

Which suggests that if Cyan dropped their items in the Ruins, then they must have found other items in the Ruins.

We never see other items that would sensibly have been obtained by Cyan in the Ruins.

So,

Our current theories are based on #1, but #2 has interesting implications, and I fancy #3 unlikely.