If you complete the 'Capture a Sylesti'-quest up to the point where you catch one, but then abandon the quest... You can re-accept it again and then trigger the same scripted event.

I repeated it several times, and sure enough, you can use that trick to capture multiple free pets. Seems like the pet you get is always of the same species and gender, but the colors and mutations vary. So you can keep trying for good colors by repeating the quest.

I'm just a newbie and don't quite know how this game works yet, but that does seem somewhat exploity... Working as intended, or not?

No. That would be considered exploiting.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to easily prevent that from happening. The first 2 regions use our old exploration system and vastly inferior code - makes it hard to change stuff like that. But I'll take a look and see what I can do since this is definitely not intended.

As for the situation, I am going to have to remove the last 4 male Draeyls you received from repeating the quest since that is not how the quest is supposed to operate. I will do so later today so that you have enough time to remove any equipment that you have given them.

Figures. I wasn't sure at the time if this game had some way to replay the story for gold/xp, etc.

I went ahead and released the extra ones.

Thank you for doing that.

We will offer a way to reset the story down the road - but it will be a controlled reset. Atm, it's not really intended to be able to repeat quests. The Capture Quest is unique in that you are partially rewarded in the act of completing the quest - instead of when you turn it in.

I will try to figure out a work-around so that this is no longer possible.

I simply made it so this quest can no longer be abandoned.