Banking an Item for next round

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This is a strange suggestion, but a feature I've thought might have some interesting consequences and thought I'd throw it out there and see if anything grows from it.

The idea is that each department, or key departments, would have a special locker or box or other place in which they could put one item.  This item persists to the next shift, only if the character who placed it there is present at round start.  

Why?

It could be a handy way to put aside some of the tasks you might have performed during a round and get a small head start on the next one, allowing you to have a larger array of things to do in back to back round play.  Some examples might include banking a tech disk in R&D, in order to jump ahead the next round in one of the tech trees, picking up where your researcher left off last shift...  maybe robotics or R&D didn't get around to using a specific item they built or resource they had, and it would be nice to not have to luck out and get it next round or wait for the full length of the round to get started on that project - materials, a nice battery, something like that.  Xenobiology?  Maybe a core or two, archaeology?  That really interesting find that there wasn't enough time to explore before the emergency escape shuttle, perhaps?  The bar could stash a drink, security, maybe a good weapon or piece of armor they'd ordered before, and chemistry might stash a bottle of hard to make drugs.

Ideally, the feature would not work if you rolled antag, and would fail on any item that would be a simple dupe of something like an ID or a laser rifle since those are already present.

I dunno, I think it could be interesting to be able to toss one little thing into the next round and sort of pick up where you left off with it.  It can be very disheartening to go through the trouble of R&D or building a complicated device or anything like that only to have the round end just as you get to the point where you could use it.

I recognize there are potential exploits that might arise or that some things might be too disruptive to store in this way, and of course that each round is not necessarily canonical to the next, but with a little hard work and imagination I think those things could be overcome to net benefit.

Anyway, something like this would be cool.