Then, after our cut-off:Thieves Guild, new skills, and more Feb 24 1999 1:06PM - Human NPCs will now immediately delete items they scavenge from the ground, rather than hanging on to them for a while. This was done because of items accumulating in the NPCs if deletion failed.
Dec 21 Publish Dec 22 1999 3:06PM CST - NPCs will no longer scavenge items.