Screw it. If you kill a NPC they are dead. There are only a small handful of quests that are required so I just need to protect those NPCs. If you go around killing NPCs then it's less quests for you.
@grumpygamer @ramon_wilhelm Why bother at all? Most players know by now that indiscriminate murder is counter-productive.
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