Yeah, plus I mean, logically it is a rather small town, limited guards, not that many people. No rapid communication with nearby towns, I figure if someone went nuts and had the ability to kill everyone in the town it would get pretty ugly for them, perhaps explaining why they pounce so quickly on petty criminal actions. Don't see as they'd have any way of knowing beforehand you could steamroll them. The repercussions here are that you lose any future potential information or quests from them leaving you to progress by yourself. For some, not a problem, for others I know, they'd be stuck.
