I agree with you totally.
I would have abandoned his greedy little butt the minute he refused to
turn over the crush tunic.
Players like that are defintely to be avoided at all costs. putting up
with them only encourages them to persist in their intolerabel behavior.
I hope that what you did gave him cause to reflect and to realize the
error of his ways.
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Noah D. Burt wrote:
> From: "Noah D. Burt" <noahburt@...>
>
> 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
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