lost all my stuff by getting offline

[Eddie Dean 0]

hi,

I played for about 2 hours and collected sone usefull stuff. Then I needed to leave and left my character into a military observation tower in the middle of nowhere. When I tried to join the game again it told my I was getting killed and I spawned somewhere in a desertlike area with a totally empty inventory. After running sometime and another logout-login I spawned as usual on the coast still without any stuff. So if I was killed and bereft by a bandit why did I restart without the usual starter-kit? And where the hell did I spawn before?!

If someone knows what happend please explain. And if someone has a nice idea about some secure hideout while being offline please dont be shy, just tell me.