Exp Red Journ (internal journal)

At a glance#


Journal	`SW_ExpRedJourn`
Category	Expansion / PlanExp
Journal entries	3
Completion branches	1
Starts by	Record route requires playtest verification.
Key locations	Dantooine, Ballast, Dathomir, Exterior, Gamorr, Ucksmug, Hoth, Wasteland, Kashyyk, Banished Lands, Lok, Cliffside …

Walkthrough#

1. Reach journal stage 0#

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 0: The Red Bandit

2. Find Billy the Red Bandit in Lok, Perl Hideout and complete the encounter#

Find Billy the Red Bandit in Lok, Perl Hideout and complete the encounter.

Expected journal update — index 5: I’ve been defeated an outlaw in red although he managed to escape. He has sworn that he will come back for my head.

3. Find Billy the Red Bandit in Lok, Perl Hideout and complete the encounter — Finished#

Find Billy the Red Bandit in Lok, Perl Hideout and complete the encounter.

Expected journal update — index 10: The red bandit is dead and will no longer hunt me.

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

Endings & branches#

The journal has one explicit finished state at index 10:

The red bandit is dead and will no longer hunt me.

Characters & locations#

Locations implicated by actor/object placement or explicit travel:

Dantooine, Ballast
Dathomir, Exterior
Gamorr, Ucksmug
Hoth, Wasteland
Kashyyk, Banished Lands
Lok, Cliffside
Lok, Graveridge
Lok, Perl Hideout
Manaan, Inner City
Nar Shaddaa, Makacheesa Market
Tatooine, Sandriver

Technical / QA reference

Journal ID: SW_ExpRedJourn Generated category: Expansion / PlanExp Journal entries: 3

Exact journal progression

Index	State	Journal text	Direct setters found
0	—	The Red Bandit	0
5	—	I’ve been defeated an outlaw in red although he managed to escape. He has sworn that he will come back for my head.	1
10	Finished	The red bandit is dead and will no longer hunt me.	1

Record-level trigger map

Stage 0

The Red Bandit

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 5

I’ve been defeated an outlaw in red although he managed to escape. He has sworn that he will come back for my head.

How this stage is set:

Script SW_ExpRedBandit. attached to Npc Billy the Red Bandit (SW_ExpLokRed); placed in Lok, Perl Hideout.

Set deleteobj to 0
    Set deletetimer to 0
    Journal SW_ExpRedJourn 10
    enable
    sethealth 0

Set Redspawned to 0
        If ( GetJournalIndex SW_ExpRedJourn < 5 )
            Journal SW_ExpRedJourn 5
        Endif
    Endif

Stage 10 — Finished

The red bandit is dead and will no longer hunt me.

How this stage is set:

Script SW_ExpRedBandit. attached to Npc Billy the Red Bandit (SW_ExpLokRed); placed in Lok, Perl Hideout.

Set deleteobj to 0
    Set deletetimer to 0
    Journal SW_ExpRedJourn 10
    enable
    sethealth 0

Set Redspawned to 0
        If ( GetJournalIndex SW_ExpRedJourn < 5 )
            Journal SW_ExpRedJourn 5
        Endif
    Endif

Scripts that read or write this journal:

SW_ExpRedBandit — Npc Billy the Red Bandit (SW_ExpLokRed); placed in Lok, Perl Hideout
SW_ExpRedControllerScript — Activator SW_ExpRedController; placed in Dantooine, Ballast, Dathomir, Exterior, Gamorr, Ucksmug, Hoth, Wasteland, Kashyyk, Banished Lands, Lok, Cliffside, Lok, Graveridge, Lok, Perl Hideout (+3 more)

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

Dantooine, Ballast
Dathomir, Exterior
Gamorr, Ucksmug
Hoth, Wasteland
Kashyyk, Banished Lands
Lok, Cliffside
Lok, Graveridge
Lok, Perl Hideout
Manaan, Inner City
Nar Shaddaa, Makacheesa Market
Tatooine, Sandriver

Journal-state readers (2 code sites)

Script SW_ExpRedBandit. attached to Npc Billy the Red Bandit (SW_ExpLokRed); placed in Lok, Perl Hideout.
Script SW_ExpRedControllerScript. attached to Activator SW_ExpRedController; placed in Dantooine, Ballast, Dathomir, Exterior, Gamorr, Ucksmug, Hoth, Wasteland, Kashyyk, Banished Lands, Lok, Cliffside, Lok, Graveridge, Lok, Perl Hideout (+3 more).

Generated playtest checklist

Start/reach the quest naturally and verify journal index 0 is obtainable.
Reach index 0: The Red Bandit
Reach index 5: I’ve been defeated an outlaw in red although he managed to escape. He has sworn that he will come back for my …
Reach index 10 (Finished): The red bandit is dead and will no longer hunt me.
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 SW_ExpRedJourn. Manually forcing journal indices is useful for diagnosis, but does not substitute for testing the scripts/dialogue that normally cause the transition.