| yeah, you're pretty much out of luck as far as getting that stuff back unless you want to use cheat codes. I personally buy/carry every bag of holding i can find, and i have almost every -80% bag i can find too. that way i save on trips to the store and i have enough good "keep around" loot that it fills two whole bags of holding. general rule of any game: if you want to keep an item, don't ever set it down anywhere. except for a few games like morrowind, etc, if you set an item down you can expect that at some point in the game it will be gone b/c tracking every object in the game gets more and more difficult as the game goes on and there are more objects to track (hence, why most older computers have difficulty running games like X2 where the universe just gets bigger and bigger and has more objects to track).
In the end, however, it's unlikely you got anything incredible in chapter 1. I don't think i carried anything from chapter 1 through the whole game, so you'll probably be OK without reloading. However, if you did get a really good find, just go back and reload.  |