At a glance#
| Journal | SW_ShonyKill |
| Category | Side Quests |
| Journal entries | 4 |
| Completion branches | No explicit Finished marker |
| Starts by | Speak with Gill Bates in Nar Shaddaa, Eddie’s Den. |
| Observed prerequisite journals | SW_BatesJourn |
| Key locations | Nar Shaddaa, Eddie’s Den, Nar Shaddaa, Shony Factory |
| Key characters | Gill Bates |
Walkthrough#
1. Speak with Gill Bates in Nar Shaddaa, Eddie’s Den#
Speak with Gill Bates in Nar Shaddaa, Eddie’s Den.
Expected journal update — index 5: Gill Bates wants me to kill Danae Shony, owner of the Shony Corporation. He gave me what looks like the access key to her office in their factory.
Known item transfer: 1 × Access Key (SW_ShonyAccess).
2. Find Danae Shony in Nar Shaddaa, Shony Factory and complete the encounter#
Find Danae Shony in Nar Shaddaa, Shony Factory and complete the encounter.
Expected journal update — index 10: Danae Shony is dead, I should return to Gill Bates.
3. Reach journal stage 15#
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 15: Gill Bates has paid me 500 credits for assassinating Shony, he told me not to speak to him again.
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.
- 1 × Access Key (
SW_ShonyAccess)
Characters & locations#
Characters directly tied to quest dialogue:
- Gill Bates (
SW_Gates) —Nar Shaddaa, Eddie's Den
Locations implicated by actor/object placement or explicit travel:
- Nar Shaddaa, Eddie’s Den
- Nar Shaddaa, Shony Factory
Technical / QA reference
Journal ID: SW_ShonyKill
Generated category: Side Quests
Journal entries: 4
Exact journal progression
| Index | State | Journal text | Direct setters found |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | — | Gill Bates wants me to kill Danae Shony, owner of the Shony Corporation. He gave me what looks like the access key to her office in their factory. | 1 |
| 10 | — | Danae Shony is dead, I should return to Gill Bates. | 1 |
| 15 | — | Gill Bates has paid me 500 credits for assassinating Shony, he told me not to speak to him again. | 0 |
Record-level trigger map
Stage 5
Gill Bates wants me to kill Danae Shony, owner of the Shony Corporation. He gave me what looks like the access key to her office in their factory.
How this stage is set:
- Dialogue INFO
20141240511198914200under topic Greeting 7; speaker Gill Bates (SW_Gates). locations:Nar Shaddaa, Eddie's Den. conditions: JournalSW_BatesJournEqual 15; JournalSW_ShonyKillEqual 0. response: “I know my prototype was stolen, and I know you’re the one that found it. I have another job if you’re interested. There’s a certain someone upstairs in the Shony Factory that quite frankly I’m tired of dealing with. I need someone to deal with this problem for me. Whoops, looks like I dropped something.”.
Journal SW_ShonyKill 5
player->additem, "SW_ShonyAccess", 1
goodbyeStage 10
Danae Shony is dead, I should return to Gill Bates.
How this stage is set:
- Script
SW_ShonysDead. attached to Npc Danae Shony (SW_Shony); placed inNar Shaddaa, Shony Factory.
If ( GetDeadCount "SW_Shony" >= 1 )
Journal SW_ShonyKill 10
endifStage 15
Gill Bates has paid me 500 credits for assassinating Shony, he told me not to speak to him again.
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.
Related records and locations
Dialogue speakers:
- Gill Bates (
SW_Gates) —Nar Shaddaa, Eddie's Den
Scripts that read or write this journal:
SW_ShonysDead— Npc Danae Shony (SW_Shony); placed inNar Shaddaa, Shony Factory
Items referenced by related script/result code:
- Access Key (
SW_ShonyAccess)
Cells implicated by actor/object placement or explicit travel code:
Nar Shaddaa, Eddie's DenNar Shaddaa, Shony Factory
Generated playtest checklist
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Start/reach the quest naturally and verify journal index
5is obtainable. -
Reach index
5: Gill Bates wants me to kill Danae Shony, owner of the Shony Corporation. He gave me what looks like the access… -
Reach index
10: Danae Shony is dead, I should return to Gill Bates. -
Reach index
15: Gill Bates has paid me 500 credits for assassinating Shony, he told me not to speak to him again. - 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_ShonyKill. Manually forcing journal indices is useful for diagnosis, but does not substitute for testing the scripts/dialogue that normally cause the transition.