when we completed the quest and returned what he asked for, each of the three members of the party got a message saying 'you are not part of the party and will receive no ex p'. we did get some exp but it seemed a small amount relative to the challenge/other quests. not sure if this is a bug or something we did as i haven't done the quest before.

Yea, you only get XP/Gold if you give him the corpses yourself, you split the gold afterwards.

It goes by # of bodies you got too, not like other quests.

This sounds like the animatron parts quest....only get xp if you personally hand him the parts.

ah well the big orc musta got lucky! i still thought he got the 'no exp' message; probably wrong though - i usually am!