Cowardly Bartender · Game Guide

At a glance#


Journal	`SW_BarCoward`
Category	Side Quests
Journal entries	4
Completion branches	No explicit Finished marker
Starts by	Record route requires playtest verification.
Key locations	Nar Shaddaa, Lower City
Key characters	Kwaio Jaim

Walkthrough#

1. Reach journal stage 5#

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 5: Veeko Bin is a bartender in the bazaar who has left due to his shipments being intercepted by gangsters. Badhiya the Hutt has canceled the shipments but the gangsters haven’t caught on yet. Kwaio Jaim wants me to head down market alley and confront the market

2. Reach journal stage 10#

Expected journal update — index 10: The gangsters raiding Veeko Bin’s shipments are dead, I should return to Kwaio Jaim in the bazaar.

3. Speak with Kwaio Jaim in Nar Shaddaa, Lower City and ask about bartending#

Speak with Kwaio Jaim in Nar Shaddaa, Lower City and ask about bartending.

Expected journal update — index 15: Kwaio Jaim gave me 50 credits for dispatching those low lifes, and Veeko Bin should be returning to the bazaar now. That should bring some more life to the place.

Known item transfer: 50 × Credits (gold_001).

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.

50 × Credits (gold_001)

Characters & locations#

Characters directly tied to quest dialogue:

Kwaio Jaim (SW_NarGuardBountyHunteP) — Nar Shaddaa, Lower City

Locations implicated by actor/object placement or explicit travel:

Nar Shaddaa, Lower City

Technical / QA reference

Journal ID: SW_BarCoward Generated category: Side Quests Journal entries: 4

Exact journal progression

Index	State	Journal text	Direct setters found
5	—	Veeko Bin is a bartender in the bazaar who has left due to his shipments being intercepted by gangsters. Badhiya the Hutt has canceled the shipments but the gangsters haven’t caught on yet. Kwaio Jaim wants me to head down market alley and confront the market	0
10	—	The gangsters raiding Veeko Bin’s shipments are dead, I should return to Kwaio Jaim in the bazaar.	0
15	—	Kwaio Jaim gave me 50 credits for dispatching those low lifes, and Veeko Bin should be returning to the bazaar now. That should bring some more life to the place.	1

Record-level trigger map

Stage 5

Veeko Bin is a bartender in the bazaar who has left due to his shipments being intercepted by gangsters. Badhiya the Hutt has canceled the shipments but the gangsters haven’t caught on yet. Kwaio Jaim wants me to head down market alley and confront the market

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 10

The gangsters raiding Veeko Bin’s shipments are dead, I should return to Kwaio Jaim in the bazaar.

Stage 15

Kwaio Jaim gave me 50 credits for dispatching those low lifes, and Veeko Bin should be returning to the bazaar now. That should bring some more life to the place.

How this stage is set:

Dialogue INFO 16992133471950829176 under topic bartending; speaker Kwaio Jaim (SW_NarGuardBountyHunteP). locations: Nar Shaddaa, Lower City. conditions: Journal SW_BarCoward Equal 10. response: “You killed them, huh? You would make a good bounty hunter. Here, take these credits, what you did should bring some life back to this bazaar.”.

player->additem, gold_001, 50
Journal SW_BarCoward 15

Dialogue speakers:

Kwaio Jaim (SW_NarGuardBountyHunteP) — Nar Shaddaa, Lower City

Scripts that read or write this journal:

SW_BarRaid — Npc Gangster (SW_NarGangsterBarC1); placed in Nar Shaddaa, Lower City; Npc Gangster (SW_NarGangsterBarC2); placed in Nar Shaddaa, Lower City
SW_BarReturn — Npc Veeko Bin (SW_BartenderNar2); placed in Nar Shaddaa, Lower City; Npc Rodian Patron (SW_NarBarMiss1); placed in Nar Shaddaa, Lower City; Npc Arkanian Patron (SW_NarBarMiss2); placed in Nar Shaddaa, Lower City

Items referenced by related script/result code:

Credits (Gold_001)

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

Nar Shaddaa, Lower City

Journal-state readers (2 code sites)

Script SW_BarRaid. attached to Npc Gangster (SW_NarGangsterBarC1); placed in Nar Shaddaa, Lower City; Npc Gangster (SW_NarGangsterBarC2); placed in Nar Shaddaa, Lower City.
Script SW_BarReturn. attached to Npc Veeko Bin (SW_BartenderNar2); placed in Nar Shaddaa, Lower City; Npc Rodian Patron (SW_NarBarMiss1); placed in Nar Shaddaa, Lower City; Npc Arkanian Patron (SW_NarBarMiss2); placed in Nar Shaddaa, Lower City.

Generated playtest checklist

Start/reach the quest naturally and verify journal index 5 is obtainable.
Reach index 5: Veeko Bin is a bartender in the bazaar who has left due to his shipments being intercepted by gangsters. Badhi…
Reach index 10: The gangsters raiding Veeko Bin’s shipments are dead, I should return to Kwaio Jaim in the bazaar.
Reach index 15: Kwaio Jaim gave me 50 credits for dispatching those low lifes, and Veeko Bin should be returning to the bazaar…
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_BarCoward. Manually forcing journal indices is useful for diagnosis, but does not substitute for testing the scripts/dialogue that normally cause the transition.