Girshling killed on stairs, unable to complete Joppa quest at start

[Manwich]

If you retreat upstairs from the quest-related girshling in Red Rock and it stands on the stairway, then when you try to go back down stairs:

1. You can kill it without it ever attacking you back
2. When you kill it, the corpse is nowhere to be found (so you cannot complete the quest early on).

Unconfirmed if simply finding another girshling will eventually allow me to complete the quest, but in the least it's annoying to not be able to complete quest with a new/early character.

*Edit*
There were 2 girshlings in this cave, so it ended up being a non-concern. But I guess the fact that a corpse may cease to exist if killed this may might still be a bug.

[glass zebra]

Did you check the stair tile with G or interaction and the corpse was not there? Corpses are not rendered above stairs to always show stairs, but that does not mean there are no items on the stairs.

[Manwich]

I did try to check it with my typical look and select actions on both the upper floor (wher eI was) and the lower floor (where it was). I used L for look and space to check adjacents. I'll see what G is set to and try that (I'm still in those caves so I'll circle back)

[glass zebra]

With look you'd still have to cycle through the different things in that tile.

I am not sure if I changed the [G]et logic once, since I think by default it might not show bring up the contents and just automatically loots non-corpses. Ctrl+Space should always bring up a list though.