On the same thread of persistence...
I headed over to Crushbone the other night to try and
find some Bracers of Battle. A friend said he would
help me out but by the time I got there he had to go
.So I hung out for a while, not knowing where the
warlord showed up. I missed him quite a few times and
was getting frustrated so I logged off. Last night I
decided iwould try for a ltitle while longer before
seeking ym fortune elsewhere. I found a party with
another monk (more on him later) and a kindly Druid.
Since I initiated the party it was agreed that I would
get the first BoB. (in the meantime my friend came
through and got me one BoB so now I only needed one).
The other monk need one BoB as well so he would get
the next. Our Druid friend was looking for Crush's
armor so she was to get that. Now, my philosophy in
partying is that the group works together in order to
get all the items the various party members want
(within reason) so it was my thinking that I would
stay grouped with them until we got 2 BoBs (one for
each monk) and Crush's armor. Well, second Warlord we
got had a BoB so I was all set. Feeling loyalty to my
party memebrs for helping me, I vowed to stay on and
help them both achieve their goals. We got another
warlord (who did nto have the BoB) and got Crush when
we could. I noticed the monk was rushing to loot Crush
every time so I asked that he reserve the looting for
the Druid, since she needed his loot. About the third
time Crush went down, the monk sprinted for his corpse
and looted it. Happy for our victory, both the druid
and I asked if Crush had the armor. The monk was
silent for a while but eventually (after we asked a
few more times) admitted that he did. "great!" said I
and proceeded to ask if he would please hand it to the
druid. He said "When I get my BoB she can have Crush's
armor." (For future reference to all who are reading,
that is not a good way to inspire loyalty) The druid
and I exchanged a few /tells and shesaid that she
didn't need it terribly so she didn't care much. I
told her Iwould do I all I could to make sure he got
his BoB so she could have the armor and then she and I
would leave him behind. The monk then had the audacity
to say that he had to go to town and sell things,
leaving the two of us to get "his" BoB. having a
harder time of it with just 2, we missed a warlord
spawn and she got killed by Crush. The monk decided to
take his sweet time egtting back too so by the time he
returned, we were fed up and wanted to leave. He,
innocently might I add, asks where we are going and we
informed him that:
A) Greed is a poor quality in a monk
B) He was one of the worst group members we had ever
been with

We left him there and went on our way. Now, the moral
of the story is this. Having lied to us once already
by stealing the armor, we did not trust him to ever
give it back. Therefore, why would we help him? There
would be many more chances to get Crush and his armor
(which I plan to do for my new friend, btw) and we did
not need his poor company.

Forgive my ramblings but in EQ ,as in life, you will
get farther with honesty and loyalty than with
mistrust and greed. If he had handed the armor over I
would have been sure to help him since we would then
have only needed the one BoB. His greed cost him our
help.

Thanks for listening and may truth guide you
Brother Kingdok
Monk of Erollisi Marr
19th Circle
Man at Arms of the Magius Knights