One way to skirt around the weight issue (and it is an important one) is to make the quest multi-stage. Like kill condors first, then fabres, etc
Kroggles ensures the living stay living, and the dead stay dead.
Clobberella beats you up.
Teela Brown has a birdie!
Flosshilde communes with the very souls of the damned.
Walsung is actually pretty cool. For a guy made of metal.