Colonel Mustard In the Library...

[penwash]

The gremlins, Lilliputians, and inklings comments have turned my thoughts to a possible interloper.

Must consult the Geneva Convention before beginning the investigation.

Call Steve Rogers. He operates outside of any government surveillance.

[Chrissy]

Further info: It was a 2 day trip at cold March temperatures. Then air conditioned surroundings in the following months. All of my inks were stored the same way and in the same conditions. Every other ink is fine. There should have been something on the box or bag in the event of evaporation.

OK it's more weird if it wasn't hot. Assuming you definitely had ink in the bottle to start with, let me put forward this hypothesis: Maybe this bottle wasn't full, and maybe the bottle cap wasn't on quite as tight as it could have been. Not loose enough for ink to leak out, but not absolutely tight. Surely the ink has to have evaporated in it's bottle somehow? I can't think of anything else that could have happened. This is the only way for there to be nothing on the box or the bag.

[Chrissy]

You're no fun. I like the gremlin explanation better.

Sorry I'm no fun.

[SIR]

I don't see how evaporation is a viable answer - a closed bottle and a closed ziplock bag mean that any evaporative action would be contained by two reasonably secure seals.

I'd go with the simple and obvious explanation - misappropriation by another, and the entire bottle contents in one go given there is no spillage.

[penwash]

You're no fun. I like the gremlin explanation better.

Sorry I'm no fun.

Chrissy, Wile was just jesting.

Unless you are jesting with the comment above too.

In which case both of you were jesting.

Also fun.

[Paddler]

First, determine whether a crime has been committed. Add a couple of drops of water to the dye left in the bottle. And check the bottle threads for dye dust. That is, reconstitute the ink that is left. If it is only a couple of drops, someone has purloined your ink and the small amount left is what you just re-hydrated.

If it makes a large amount of ink, dehydration is the problem. The bottle gasket may be permeable to water vapor, especially in the low humidity in the southwest US. You may not have made a good seal when you tightened the cap. Fill the bottle with water (or re-hydrated ink) and reproduce the conditions in your ink cellar for another 9 months. Keep an eye on things. A thin plastic bag and a permeable gasket could make it look like a band of gremlins and ink putti have absconded with your writables.

[Chrissy]

You're no fun. I like the gremlin explanation better.

Sorry I'm no fun.

Chrissy, Wile was just jesting.

Unless you are jesting with the comment above too.

In which case both of you were jesting.

Also fun.

Yes, I was jesting. Sorry I forgot a different smiley that would have confirmed that.

[amk]

If it's like most things in our house that go missing, the cat either ate it or dragged it off to die. In this case, the cat drank it, as I think it would have been difficult to drag it off.

[carlos.q]

The ink was teleported out by a FP user from the future where Montblanc Jonathan Swift ink is unobtanium.

[VertOlive]

Did you see the ink in the bottle before you bought it?
Did you accidentally buy an empty MB ink bottle thinking it was full?
Were you scammed?

I lived in MI for many years and attended the show a few times, I don't think anyone would... but you never know

Nope, bought it off an FPN member. It was most definitely filled with ink.

[SIR]

Sleepwalking and sleepwriting?! Have paper, envelopes, and stamps also gone missing?

[Wile E Coyote]

Maybe it turned into invisible ink. It's still in there, you just can't see it.