Talk:Contract: Bovine Blues/@comment-14.177.217.57-20180818154059/@comment-178.208.100.162-20181124132414

I agree. The Slyzard might've attacked that distillery and eaten at least one human, but he did so while he (or she) was gravely wounded, a state in which every being under the sun acts erratically, impulsive and agressive. So there's no way to tell for sure if that's what they usually do, or just an action born from pain in the heat of the moment.

And that's ignoring the fact that it's very unfair at best to expect a being that neither possesses human intelligence or concept of morality or was never taught it to act as if they did.

Finally, Geralt wasn't contracted to slay them - he was only to solve the mystery of the falling cow. So he could've just told the supervisor what actually happened, reassured them that it's highly unlikely to happen again (since the Slyzard should remember a lesson learned that hard well) and be done with it. As a matter of fact, I'll retry this quest today, and see if that's actually possible and no one simply bothered to try until now. If it's not...well, then I'll just do the Griffin Grandmaster Armour quest first. While that still leads to two dead dragons...Geralt encountering two Slyzards while looking for missing legendary gear from his caste and killing them in self-defense just has a different moral quality.