Kadara counting bodies quest

Ummm nope. Not when I played it. Funny tho.

I initially assumed that it was a bug, but I get the feeling that this was an egregious oversight in the quest story structure, as if it was supposed to conclude like Something In The Water, where you can do something about the murders, but then the last step ends in giving evidence, because clearly those two knuckleheads did it, but it finishes as if someone will investigate later.

Yeah that part stuck out like sore finger. You can't even question those dudes.

Yep I ran into them once also.  You would think that kind of thing would happen a lot more often in game, but then that seems to be a problem with most RPGs

Yeah I could never pass up a good desk fan in Fallout 4. Need those screws.

I remember those two hanging around as well.

Nothing is as bad as the two muggers in the slums. You should have an option to at least smack them.

Yeah..I don't know how many times Ryder has looted a settlement, sometimes even the same room a vendor is in, and the vendor happily buys all the loot you have just taken. Even outlaws and Kett...just minding their own business in some camp where they shoot to defend and Ryder totally slaughters them all and takes their stuff. But it's bad WHEN THEY DO IT. Games are funny.

Your post reminds me of games gone by that didn't hold your hand.  Back in Morrowind before I had to restart my game I remember coming into a small little town to which I preceded to check out what loot I could find only to end up having to slaughter the entire village after they turned hostile on me for entering someones house and taking a water jug or something stupid like that.  Also turns out that one of the NPCs was a quest giver for one of the guilds so by killing that npc it broke that entire quest line.  Breaking quests is not so fun back then or even today but the reaction of the npcs of that town has stuck with me all these years and I honestly miss that.  It made it feel more real and I suppose true consequences for my actions.

The guards will attack but not the regular town folk in Skyrim.  I don't remember it happening in Oblivion however the epic free for all battles in towns after a guards arrow hits another guard or that poor blacksmith down the street were awesome to watch.  Still I don't remember an entire town turning on me like in Morrowind.  I should fire up Oblivion it has been such a long time.

I thought I'd missed an essential part of that quest when I found them, but I was too far past it to worry too much about it. Is it just a random thing with no quest?

Actually, I got the point.  It was just badly written and executed, as usual.