Waste time debating.

They start to waste time debating the best option, all the time the badger was getting closer to respawning, with you in its territory.

A bit of a dumb idea.

While they were doing that you got an idea and dropped back down the hole you had dug to get out, and removed your torn shirt. Getting out a sewing kit, you focused on the shirt and smiled. Soon a crafting option appeared. It would give your shirt a crude repair, as you did not have a Crafting Skill for Fabric. It would probably be worse than if you did it by hand, but you agreed.

A progress bar appeared above the shirt and you smashed it with the steel pipe, getting all fixed at once.

Looking at the shirt you see it worked.

Putting the shirt back on you climbed out again and the others looked at you, only now realizing you had vanished before.

“Just experimented. There is a loophole to the whole matter about not crafting on unclaimed areas. It seems the area just has to be claimed, not yours. I just repaired my shirt that way.”

Looking over your details you frown “What’s the formula for calculating XP for groups? It’s just that we only got 24 XP for that blighter.”

Party EXP = (Battle EXP / the number of players) x (1 - (.05 x average player level disparity))
The awarded EXP is rounded up to nearest whole EXP point

You think about it say “I can already see at least one grey area of it, and one way to exploit a flaw in it.”

Getting back on track “Now, let’s leave before it respawns all pissed at us!”

You head out as they had not made a choice; you are making one for them.