I would have never even thought to look, it makes perfect sense to me why merchants being protected by a guard would get pissy over his death
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However, according to:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/f...ml?faction=283
There aren't any Bashers on the list of NPCs to kill to lower the faction.
I have no idea how old that data is, or if it was changed, say, in 2005 when Grobb made it's comeback or what.