Why is looting Soverign Glut considered stealing?

[KalkiKrosah]

Spoilers for late parts of Act 1 in case anyone reading this is new.

Soverign Glut, when dismissed, heads back to the Myconoid colony. When there he will ask the player yet again to help him kill Soverign Spaw. When you reject him, he turns hostile inside the grotto and none of the other Myconoids will assist you in battle, which is fine. Killing Glut can be done very simply in one round of attacks, he isn't hard to fight. But then when he dies his body is labeled as "owned" by the grotto. I cannot claim my prize off his dead body without the other Myconoids getting offended about it. He was within ear shot of them when he asked me to slay Soverign Spaw, their master. It makes no sense narratively speaking. So for them to not help me in the fight but now get annoyed when I go to loot his body is strange. I should be able to loot his body is my point considering all the factors around the fight. They didn't assist me, they didn't assist him, now they want to lay claim to the loot? I don't think so.

The only loophole to this is After using Glut to slay the Duergar by the boat you fight him right then and there. Nobody is around to get offended when I loot Glut so I can do so freely. But Glut is useful at this stage in the game. He has the ability to resurrect dead bodies as zombies and you can use those zombies to fight your battles. So I used his zombie spell to resurrect the Bulette which was amusing to me. Then I left the underdark and he dismissed back to the Grotto which started this whole predicament. It really should not be such a problem to loot one body...

[Ironwu]

His body belongs to the Grotto. Just because he was killed by a player does not give looting rights. This is a common theme throughout the game.

[Darth Cannabis]

Also him being in earshot when he says he wants to take over doesn't matter. It's entirely irrelevant, because he wasn't using vocal communication. They communicate telepathically thru spores. There was no use of ears, and his voice is only in your head.

[Tempest Fox3]

Just cast darkness or use a darkness arrow to put darkness over his corpse and you can enter stealth and loot the body no issues.

[Pat Fenis]

darkness / fog as in all things thieving.

[Ironwu]

Fog > Darkness as there are enemies that have Darkvision and Superior Darkvision. So, have to be careful when using Darkness. :)

[jonnin]

pretty much anywhere you kill someone, their allies will be unhappy if you loot them. Its even stealing to loot the mercs at the grove intro fight, if one of them dies, or the body of the one the goblins shot. They get mad as hell over that, but you can pickpocket the knocked out tiefling for the healing gloves afterwards and no one cares.

[Giganx]

It seems random and I think it's just a bug.

In a lot of the fights when there are friendly NPC's in the area 1 or 2 of the enemy corpses will be randomly flagged as stealing for no apparent reason, while the rest can be looted normally.

This is a janky game.

[KalkiKrosah]

Originally posted by jonnin:

pretty much anywhere you kill someone, their allies will be unhappy if you loot them. Its even stealing to loot the mercs at the grove intro fight, if one of them dies, or the body of the one the goblins shot. They get mad as hell over that, but you can pickpocket the knocked out tiefling for the healing gloves afterwards and no one cares.

Thats the thing. I killed him inside the grotto. The other Myconoids are literally walking past passively letting us fight each other. I win, I go to loot and thats when they have a problem with it. Just seems like an odd standard. Murder? Legal. Grave robbing? ILLEGAL!

Those mushrooms got some strange social mores...