I just shot a mentally disturbed Nightkin for shooting Brahmin. I think the quest giver even said it wasn't worth anyone's life.

I've done a search through this forum section, and the consensus seems to be that the quest is probably bugged.

Just wanted to know if i should reload and find a different solution if anyone has found another way.

You could probably stand in front of the bullets thus allowing the Brahmin to live. Might use up a lot of stimpacks though.

EDIT: So I just read my strat guide and it's a Free Quest called The Screams of Brahmin. You can't reason with her and can only kill the nightkin. On the body you find the note and turn it in to the rancher. I'm sure you could find more inventive ways to stop her than killing but none of them would allow you to finish the quest.

Thanks heaps for that.

The rancher never took the note for some reason when i tried it that way, even though the quest was resolved.

The quest states that night after night, s/he comes back. So, by stopping them one night, you're only delaying the slaughter.

What happen if you just let it keep going then? I've always done that quest the day I got it, but what if I go there every midnight, watch the Nightkin make swiss cheese out of a brahmin, come back the next night and repeat? Do they just keep getting more brahmin? Does the quest fail? Does the Nightkin find Brahmins somewhere else to shoot?

At first in my game I waited for all the cattle to die...once they were all dead the Nightkin just stands there invisible by the rock and does not move. Unless you shoot him of course. So no, he does not find new targets once the cattle are dead, he just becomes a hard-place next to the rock.

the nightkin stands just outside where the brahmin are, even in the day, so when you see him first he will have a stealth boy activated and he would be just standing there. you can kill him there or wait till night where he will deactivate it and kill the brahmin...