Does item pickup have a victim (picking up items marked as theft)

[mmind]

In Gothic 1 every time I pick up an item from the ground (i.e. a berry at the startpoint) while a Npc looks, he'll shout "Behind you!".

Tracking that down to b_assesstheft(), I can see:

    ai_quicklook(self, other);
    if (npc_canseenpc(self, other)) {
        printdebugnpc(pd_zs_check, "...NSC kann den Dieb sehen!");
        if (hlp_isvaliditem(item) && (!hlp_isvalidnpc(victim))) {
            printdebugnpc(pd_zs_check, "...Item wurde aufgehoben!"); // Item picked up
    ...
        }
        else {
            printdebugnpc(pd_zs_check, "...Taschendiebstahl!"); //pickpocket
            if (...) {
    ...
                ai_pointatnpc(self, other);
                b_say(self, other, "$BEHINDYOU");

So the condition (hlp_isvaliditem(item) && (!hlp_isvalidnpc(victim)) should be true to indicated something picked up, but isn't, leading to the pickpocket branch.

I'm not yet sure what part is wrong though.

[mmind]

Interestingly Gothic 2 does if (hlp_isvalidnpc(other) && npc_isplayer(other)) and Gothic 1 also does similar things, like if ((hlp_isvalidnpc(other) && (!c_npcisdown(other))) && (!npc_isplayer(other)) , so the player is a valid Npc in both games in other places.

But I guess the player being the "victim" when picking up an item might be strange?

[mmind]

I guess the culprit might be living in Npc::takeItem, which does
owner.sendPassivePerc(*this,*this,*this,*it,PERC_ASSESSTHEFT);
marking the player as the victim of the theft. I guess victim might need to be optional?