Former Fable dev reunited with commemorative plaque he lost 12 years ago thanks to a random eBay auction

Mike Ducker was given a plaque to commemorate his work on Fable, the Lionhead RPG released in 2004 for the original Xbox. In 2010, it went missing under mysterious circumstances—and now, 12 years later, a spot of good luck has put it back in his hands.

Ducker, whose Mobygames (opens in new tab) profile lists him as a programmer on every Fable game from the original to Fable: Anniversary in 2014, shared the story about the loss and recovery of the plaque on Twitter. “The plaque I was given for making Fable has been missing [and] presumed stolen since 2010,” he wrote. “It ended up in a recycling centre auction in Northampton around 2014, then sat in a collection until it went on sale on eBay recently, where a game dev I’d never met saw it and told me.