Very true. In Maat's case he only took the Eternals, had he chosen to clean her out of her inventory I wonder how pissed she would've been at finding herself without nothing (might try to take revenge later on in a future update). On the other hand, poor ol' Jerry doesn't have anything remote of value ever since he got his head cracked (would've interesting to see if he somehow "graduates" from being a laughing stock).
Don't forget, he also took the gem that gave Maat immunity to the sleep cat statue.
When Nova originally searched unconcious Maat, I think she said that the 250 Eternals was the only thing she found in her inventory.
But that scene showed that players can fully access each other's inventory. Also that any item can be taken - money, weapons, artefacts - even if the player is not dead.
Jerry was a pretty high level magic user, so no weapons, but he might have had some Eternals, or magical artefacts, on his corpse.
The 2 holding the gem probably had some Eternals, too, as well as their weapons.
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OK, gotta give the dev kudos for getting Ephesia Grammata in there!
Honestly never thought I'd see that, in one of these games.