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Building a Wall

Walkthrough and QA reference for Building a Wall (SW_BuildAWall).

At a glance#

JournalSW_BuildAWall
CategorySide Quests
Journal entries6
Completion branches1
Starts bySpeak with Dexter Kurp in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds and ask about engineer.
Key locationsDantooine, Dantari Wilds
Key charactersDexter Kurp

Walkthrough#

1. Speak with Dexter Kurp in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds and ask about engineer#

Speak with Dexter Kurp in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds and ask about engineer.

Expected journal update — index 5: I have met a Czerka Employee named Dexter Kurp at a mining facility in the Dantari Wildlands that has need of an engineer to assist in finishing the construction of a wall around the complex.

2. Speak with Dexter Kurp in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds and ask about engineer#

Speak with Dexter Kurp in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds and ask about engineer.

Expected journal update — index 7: I have told Dexter that I do not have time to construct a wall right now, if I have the engineering skill and happen to be in the area I could finish the construction for a reward.

3. Speak with Dexter Kurp in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds and ask about engineer#

Speak with Dexter Kurp in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds and ask about engineer.

Expected journal update — index 10: I have told Dexter that I will complete the construction of the wall around the mining complex, I am told I will be paid well for this service.

4. Reach Dantooine, Dantari Wilds and allow the scripted event to complete#

Reach Dantooine, Dantari Wilds and allow the scripted event to complete.

Expected journal update — index 15: The wall at the Czerka mining facility within the Dantari Wildlands is now finished and I should speak to Dexter Kurp to claim my payment.

5. Speak with Dexter Kurp in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds — Finished#

Speak with Dexter Kurp in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds.

Expected journal update — index 20: Dexter Kurp has paid me 500 credits for finishing the construction of the wall around their mining complex.

Known item transfer: 500 × Credits (gold_001).

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

Endings & branches#

The journal has one explicit finished state at index 20:

Dexter Kurp has paid me 500 credits for finishing the construction of the wall around their mining complex.

Known rewards & item transfers#

The following player-directed item transfers are visible in the parsed quest scripts/dialogue results. Playtest may reveal additional indirect rewards.

  • 500 × Credits (gold_001)

Characters & locations#

Characters directly tied to quest dialogue:

  • Dexter Kurp (SW_CzerkaBuildingWall) — Dantooine, Dantari Wilds

Locations implicated by actor/object placement or explicit travel:

  • Dantooine, Dantari Wilds
Technical / QA reference

Journal ID: SW_BuildAWall Generated category: Side Quests Journal entries: 6

Exact journal progression

IndexStateJournal textDirect setters found
5—I have met a Czerka Employee named Dexter Kurp at a mining facility in the Dantari Wildlands that has need of an engineer to assist in finishing the construction of a wall around the complex.2
7—I have told Dexter that I do not have time to construct a wall right now, if I have the engineering skill and happen to be in the area I could finish the construction for a reward.1
10—I have told Dexter that I will complete the construction of the wall around the mining complex, I am told I will be paid well for this service.1
15—The wall at the Czerka mining facility within the Dantari Wildlands is now finished and I should speak to Dexter Kurp to claim my payment.1
20FinishedDexter Kurp has paid me 500 credits for finishing the construction of the wall around their mining complex.1

Record-level trigger map

Stage 5

I have met a Czerka Employee named Dexter Kurp at a mining facility in the Dantari Wildlands that has need of an engineer to assist in finishing the construction of a wall around the complex.

How this stage is set:

  • Dialogue INFO 23870189502144411768 under topic engineer; speaker Dexter Kurp (SW_CzerkaBuildingWall). locations: Dantooine, Dantari Wilds. conditions: Journal SW_BuildAWall LessEqual 5; Function/PcConjuration GreaterEqual 60. response: “Yes our engineer recently was called off planet to head to Dromund Kaas for some big project and now we’re left with this half constructed wall and all the materials to build it. But nobody here has the skills. You wouldn’t happen to be an engineer, would you?”.
Journal SW_BuildAWall 5
Choice "As a matter of fact I am, I can do this job no problem." 1 "I don't have time to construct an entire wall right now!" 2
  • Dialogue INFO 441157992724730488 under topic engineer; speaker Dexter Kurp (SW_CzerkaBuildingWall). locations: Dantooine, Dantari Wilds. conditions: Journal SW_BuildAWall Equal 0; Function/PcConjuration Less 60. response: “Yes our engineer recently was called off planet to head to Dromund Kaas for some big project and now we’re left with this half constructed wall and all the materials to build it. But nobody here has the skills. You don’t look like much of an engineer. [Must have an engineering skill of 60 in order to do this quest]”.
Journal SW_BuildAWall 5

Stage 7

I have told Dexter that I do not have time to construct a wall right now, if I have the engineering skill and happen to be in the area I could finish the construction for a reward.

How this stage is set:

  • Dialogue INFO 31998258891250931439 under topic engineer; speaker Dexter Kurp (SW_CzerkaBuildingWall). locations: Dantooine, Dantari Wilds. conditions: Function/Choice Equal 2. response: “I understand, this is no easy task. If you change your mind, you can always come back here and get to work, you will be paid handsomely.”.
Journal SW_BuildAWall 7

Stage 10

I have told Dexter that I will complete the construction of the wall around the mining complex, I am told I will be paid well for this service.

How this stage is set:

  • Dialogue INFO 154953342833212189 under topic engineer; speaker Dexter Kurp (SW_CzerkaBuildingWall). locations: Dantooine, Dantari Wilds. conditions: Function/Choice Equal 1. response: “This is great news, I can’t believe they didn’t let him finish construction before he left. All of the material is here, just go ahead and work on it when you can, you will be paid appropriately. Thank you.”.
Journal SW_BuildAWall 10

Stage 15

The wall at the Czerka mining facility within the Dantari Wildlands is now finished and I should speak to Dexter Kurp to claim my payment.

How this stage is set:

  • Script SW_BuildWallDant2. attached to Activator Wall Construction (SW_DantooineWallBuild2); placed in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds.
PlaySound "SothaSpark"
            SW_DantooineWallBuild2->Disable
            Journal SW_BuildAWall 15
        Endif
    Endif

Stage 20 — Finished

Dexter Kurp has paid me 500 credits for finishing the construction of the wall around their mining complex.

How this stage is set:

  • Dialogue INFO 13453725039841960 under topic Greeting 7; speaker Dexter Kurp (SW_CzerkaBuildingWall). locations: Dantooine, Dantari Wilds. conditions: Journal SW_BuildAWall Equal 15. response: “Now that is a fine job right there, I don’t think our engineer could have done any better, here take these credits you’ve earned them.”.
Journal SW_BuildAWall 20
player->additem, gold_001, 500

Dialogue speakers:

  • Dexter Kurp (SW_CzerkaBuildingWall) — Dantooine, Dantari Wilds

Scripts that read or write this journal:

  • SW_BuildWallDant — Activator Wall Construction (SW_DantooineWallBuild); placed in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds
  • SW_BuildWallDant2 — Activator Wall Construction (SW_DantooineWallBuild2); placed in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds
  • SW_BuiltWallDant — Activator SW_DantooineWallBuildFinished; placed in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds

Items referenced by related script/result code:

  • Credits (Gold_001)

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

  • Dantooine, Dantari Wilds
Journal-state readers (3 code sites)
  • Script SW_BuildWallDant. attached to Activator Wall Construction (SW_DantooineWallBuild); placed in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds.
  • Script SW_BuildWallDant2. attached to Activator Wall Construction (SW_DantooineWallBuild2); placed in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds.
  • Script SW_BuiltWallDant. attached to Activator SW_DantooineWallBuildFinished; placed in Dantooine, Dantari Wilds.

Generated playtest checklist

  • Start/reach the quest naturally and verify journal index 5 is obtainable.
  • Reach index 5: I have met a Czerka Employee named Dexter Kurp at a mining facility in the Dantari Wildlands that has need of …
  • Reach index 7: I have told Dexter that I do not have time to construct a wall right now, if I have the engineering skill and …
  • Reach index 10: I have told Dexter that I will complete the construction of the wall around the mining complex, I am told I wi…
  • Reach index 15: The wall at the Czerka mining facility within the Dantari Wildlands is now finished and I should speak to Dext…
  • Reach index 20 (Finished): Dexter Kurp has paid me 500 credits for finishing the construction of the wall around their mining complex.
  • 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_BuildAWall. Manually forcing journal indices is useful for diagnosis, but does not substitute for testing the scripts/dialogue that normally cause the transition.