Hi everyone, I'm kind of lost and would like opinions. Please take your time to read my fairly long story.
Today, I went to fight the ZM8 BC in Delkfutt's Tower. Because I was one of the few members in the party with a Delkfutt key, I was the first one to reach the top floors. While waiting for the others, I looked around a bit on the 11th floor and who do I see there? The NM "Pallas", just wandering about, minding his own business.
I tell the party that he's there and unclaimed and no one believed me obviously.
I decided to stay in the room and keep an eye on him until all the members arrive at the spot. Unfortunately, I got into troubles when sneak wore off and I couldn't find a safe spot in time to recast it, so I got aggro with a lot of adds and died shortly after.
While I was laying dead there, the rest of the party was getting closer when we suddenly came to the conclusion that like half of the party including myself forgot to bring echo drops for the fight. Because I was dead, I proposed to HP back to Jeuno and bring some echo's for everyone, the DRG also asked me to bring some water crystals.
The party agreed on me going back, so I did and bought the stuff we needed. Meanwhile the party was killing the mobs in the NM area.
Then just as I headed back into Qufim, Kuw the WAR grabs Pallas without waiting for me and they start killing him.
It should be known that there was no one else in the zone to claim it from us. As far as I know, no other parties showed up before, during and after the fight so absolutely no reason to rush it. Enough time to wait for me in any case.
Pallas died just at the moment I zoned back into Upper tower. Oddly enough, the bracelets dropped, which are going for 14 million now. Of course we are all happy and Bael, the leader, suggests to split the loot 1/6.
At this point, the problems started. Kuw objects and demands 1/5.
I quote him: "Split 1/5, why 1/6 Wanta wasn't in the fight so why should we give her gil?"
The leader, Bael, took the bracelets to sell them, the rest passed.
He repeated "1/5 Wanta didn't do anything" several more times during the mission.
I think to myself whatever this sucks, especially since I found him, sacrificed my life guarding him and returned to Jeuno to bring items for the party.
A little later, Bael sends me a /tell: "Don't worry, you will get your part."
Quite relieved for a second I was, but then started thinking about it. I would feel horrible if I took part of a drop when the majority of the group would not want me to and hate me for it.
I /tell back to Bael and propose to call out a vote. Seemed like the fairest and most diplomatic way to resolve the issue.
He would ask every member whether they would like it see it split 1/5 or 1/6. I asked him to do it with /tells so everyone could answer honestly in all anonimity. If 3 or more out of the 5 members would vote 1/5, I promised I would respect the party's choice and expect 0% of the loot. However if 3 out of the 5 would vote 1/6, everyone would get said part or nothing.
So the voting happened, and the results were:
2 votes for 1/5, 3 votes for 1/6. I was told the names of the voters but will keep them confidential.
But now it seemed Kuw and the other voter were not happy with the results of the poll and still demanded their 1/5 part.
So the voting results were suddenly declared void because Bael didn't want to argue with him anymore and offered to give me 500k of his part and suggested me to ask the other 2 1/6 voters that same ammount.
I couldn't do that; making 3 members lose 500k gil while the 2 who cast the losing vote would run away with full price, so I rejected his kind offer because I'd rather get nothing than do something so unfair to those who supported me.
So in the end I came out with nothing for me and that's the end of it.
Just out of boredom, I sent Kuw a /tell asking why he still wouldn't want to share despite losing in the poll.
I quote him: "Don't fool with me why should I even give you a single gil? You weren't in the fight and now I want full gil, end of story goodbye."
I asked him repeatedly why he didn't wait for me before killing because there was no one else. But never got a decent answer to that. The best answer he could think of was because he wanted to kill before other mobs respawned. Weak answer in my opinion.
I come to the conclusion that Kuw is a loot *****, and intentionally pulled without waiting so he'd have an excuse to get more gil.
I have given up on this matter now. But I just want to know what the other Ragnarok folks think...
Did I deserve my part of the loot? Or not?
If this is an obvious no, sorry for wasting your time with my long post. I am still quite new to the game and am unfamiliar with all the splitting rules on NM loot.
Edited, Tue Mar 14 18:53:38 2006 by WantaRagnarok
Edited, Tue Mar 14 18:55:42 2006 by WantaRagnarok