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The Bamboo Hounds

Walkthrough and QA reference for The Bamboo Hounds (Nab_Hounds).

At a glance#

JournalNab_Hounds
CategoryNaboo
Journal entries4
Completion branches1
Starts bySpeak with Bago in Naboo, Bingwie Village and ask about hounds.
Key locationsNaboo, Bingwie Village
Key charactersBago

Walkthrough#

1. Speak with Bago in Naboo, Bingwie Village and ask about hounds#

Speak with Bago in Naboo, Bingwie Village and ask about hounds.

Expected journal update — index 5: Bago of the Bingwies has asked me to help rid them of their plight that is Bogclaws and Narglatches hunting them during the night. He’s asked that I bring to him 5 Bogclaw Meats and 5 Narglatch Whiskers to prove I’ve done this.

2. Reach journal stage 10#

Route needs playtest verification. No literal journal setter was found for this stage in the parsed dialogue/MWScript evidence. Follow the surrounding quest context and verify whether this entry is reachable, indirect, optional, or historical.

Expected journal update — index 10: I have 5 Bogclaw Meat and 5 Narglatch Whiskers. I can return to Bago with them and show him I’ve done as he’s asked.

3. Speak with Bago in Naboo, Bingwie Village and ask about hounds — Finished#

Speak with Bago in Naboo, Bingwie Village and ask about hounds.

Expected journal update — index 15: Bago has thanked me and asked if I would continue to help the Bingwie around the village. He says there are many of them that need help. He also told me that once everyone has been helped in the village that I should speak with him.

Outcome: this journal entry is marked as a finished branch.

Endings & branches#

The journal has one explicit finished state at index 15:

Bago has thanked me and asked if I would continue to help the Bingwie around the village. He says there are many of them that need help. He also told me that once everyone has been helped in the village that I should speak with him.

Characters & locations#

Characters directly tied to quest dialogue:

  • Bago (SW_Bago) — Naboo, Bingwie Village

Locations implicated by actor/object placement or explicit travel:

  • Naboo, Bingwie Village
Technical / QA reference

Journal ID: Nab_Hounds Generated category: Naboo Journal entries: 4

Exact journal progression

IndexStateJournal textDirect setters found
5—Bago of the Bingwies has asked me to help rid them of their plight that is Bogclaws and Narglatches hunting them during the night. He’s asked that I bring to him 5 Bogclaw Meats and 5 Narglatch Whiskers to prove I’ve done this.1
10—I have 5 Bogclaw Meat and 5 Narglatch Whiskers. I can return to Bago with them and show him I’ve done as he’s asked.0
15FinishedBago has thanked me and asked if I would continue to help the Bingwie around the village. He says there are many of them that need help. He also told me that once everyone has been helped in the village that I should speak with him.2

Record-level trigger map

Stage 5

Bago of the Bingwies has asked me to help rid them of their plight that is Bogclaws and Narglatches hunting them during the night. He’s asked that I bring to him 5 Bogclaw Meats and 5 Narglatch Whiskers to prove I’ve done this.

How this stage is set:

  • Dialogue INFO 221382672151682296 under topic hounds; speaker Bago (SW_Bago). locations: Naboo, Bingwie Village. conditions: Journal Nab_Hounds Equal 0. response: “The hounds of the forest. Bogclaws and Narglatches. They come into the village at night and hunt Bingwies. If you could show them that they can be hunted they may steer away. Please bring me 5 Bogclaw Meats and 5 Narglatch Whiskers to show that this has been done.”.
Journal Nab_Hounds 5

Stage 10

I have 5 Bogclaw Meat and 5 Narglatch Whiskers. I can return to Bago with them and show him I’ve done as he’s asked.

Direct setter: No literal Journal <quest> <index> command was found in the current plugin for this stage. Treat this as a QA flag: it may be a developer note, branch reached indirectly, or state written by code outside the parsed MWScript/result-script patterns.

Stage 15 — Finished

Bago has thanked me and asked if I would continue to help the Bingwie around the village. He says there are many of them that need help. He also told me that once everyone has been helped in the village that I should speak with him.

How this stage is set:

  • Dialogue INFO 165213043758276837 under topic hounds; speaker Bago (SW_Bago). locations: Naboo, Bingwie Village. conditions: Journal Nab_Hounds Equal 10; Item/ItemType Nab_NargltachWhiskers GreaterEqual 5; Item/ItemType Nab_BogclawMeat GreaterEqual 5. response: “Maybe now thanks to your efforts the Bingwies can leave their homes safe at night. Thank you stranger. Please, ask around our village and see if any other Bingwies need help. There are many around here that could use the assistance of an adventurer. Once you’ve helped around with the other Bingwies, come talk to me again.”.
Journal Nab_Hounds 15
  • Dialogue INFO 298996805700419110 under topic hounds; speaker Bago (SW_Bago). locations: Naboo, Bingwie Village. conditions: Journal Nab_Hounds Equal 5; Item/ItemType Nab_NargltachWhiskers GreaterEqual 5; Item/ItemType Nab_BogclawMeat GreaterEqual 5. response: “Maybe now thanks to your efforts the Bingwies can leave their homes safe at night. Thank you stranger. Please, ask around our village and see if any other Bingwies need help. There are many around here that could use the assistance of an adventurer. Once you’ve helped around with the other Bingwies, come talk to me again.”.
Journal Nab_Hounds 15

Dialogue speakers:

  • Bago (SW_Bago) — Naboo, Bingwie Village

Scripts that read or write this journal:

  • Nab_BagoScript — Creature Bago (SW_Bago); placed in Naboo, Bingwie Village

Cells implicated by actor/object placement or explicit travel code:

  • Naboo, Bingwie Village
Journal-state readers (1 code sites)
  • Script Nab_BagoScript. attached to Creature Bago (SW_Bago); placed in Naboo, Bingwie Village.

Generated playtest checklist

  • Start/reach the quest naturally and verify journal index 5 is obtainable.
  • Reach index 5: Bago of the Bingwies has asked me to help rid them of their plight that is Bogclaws and Narglatches hunting th…
  • Reach index 10: I have 5 Bogclaw Meat and 5 Narglatch Whiskers. I can return to Bago with them and show him I’ve done as he’s …
  • Reach index 15 (Finished): Bago has thanked me and asked if I would continue to help the Bingwie around the village. He says there are ma…
  • Verify any scripted reward/item transfer shown above actually occurs.
  • Verify involved NPCs/objects remain present and usable after the stage transition.
  • Verify no unrelated vanilla Morrowind dialogue/quest state appears during the flow.

QA console reference

Current journal state can be inspected with the OpenMW/Morrowind journal tooling for Nab_Hounds. Manually forcing journal indices is useful for diagnosis, but does not substitute for testing the scripts/dialogue that normally cause the transition.