Do not, I repeat. Do not give away your room key to another so they can "borrow" your room, as it will be confiscated by the guard if anyone other than you tries to use it and apparently (although there is a DM investigating) there is no way for they key to be returned.
So it would seem you simply have to wait out your rent duration, which in my case is over forty days.
Learn from my mistake and avoid doing this folks. Thank you.
lol. Yeah, awesome security system. >_>;
Nice way to dump your gold so it cannot be robbed or w/e but I really don't see reason why people rent these rooms for so long. I understand if someone is away for a while, week or so, then maybe he wants to keep his room for that while but forty days? If it happens to be that you die the day after you rented the room, everyone else has to wait 40 days (including your possible new character) for the room to be available for renting and given how limited the rooms are, it is annoying.
Maybe there should be a cap in this, limiting the amount of days possible to 20 or so? If someone is going to be away more than 20 days, I really think he should then just take his stuff from the room into his inventory, leave the room and just call it fair towards other players who actually play on the server.
It would be nice to be able to get a replacement key at a possible price. Say if you don't have a key in your inventory you could speak with the owner and a dialogue option would appear. It would help if your key is confiscated/you die in a DM quest and have no means to get your key back. Even if the key is returned a "copy" of the key could've been made so that's why you can't just get it back for RP sake.
I do agree with BOTK about reducing the possible length though. Renting a room for 2 months is a little excessive especially given that most characters bearly live that long. 14/15 days tops I would say although 19 would be possible say if you buy 5 days worth when you've used the room a day. But if rent < 14 no dialogue option would appear to rent further.
We have a replacement system that doesn't have any of these problems, it just hasn't been implemented yet.