Stalling might lose forged items?

[Ygorl]

If they were artifacts, someone else could have issued forge orders for them that same turn, and you wouldn't have seen the message telling you that the forging had failed because you didn't see the next turn. If they weren't artifacts, the only reason I can think of that they wouldn't have been in your lab is if your lab were full. I don't remember ever seeing an event in which a magic item is stolen from the lab.