I was playing Kingdoms of Amular for a good couple of hours. I completed a few of quests, then headed back to town. And no one is around. I go into the pub, and still no one. I then see a loot bag on the floor. It's then that I realize that instead of loading my actual game save, I had loaded the last autosave from the night before; when I decided to slaughter the town before going to bed.
So then I just wasted a few hours.