TR_m4_Arv_BuriedSilver

Noted no difficulties, Journal updated as expected.

Tried the following:

Used all dialogue options (and payment options, including ones with 0 gold on me), also completed the quest without speaking to the beggar, the tree etc. didn't appear.

Beggar left after I completed the quest, post-quest dialogue worked as presumably intended.

Playtested these quests (using openmw nightly)

'TR_m4_wil_BuyingRope': https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/bugtracker/rope-salesman-bug

'TR_m4_wil_KobaldFisher': https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/bugtracker/fishy-kobald-bugs

'TR_m4_wil_Shenjirra', 'TR_m4_wil_ShenjirraB': https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/bugtracker/cat-catchers-road-bugs

'TR_m4_wil_TribunalTS': https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/bugtracker/tribunal-thrill-seeking-bugs

'TR_m4_wil_UrnuridanGuar: https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/bugtracker/poisoned-urnuridan-guar-bugs

'TR_m4_wil_VanishBandits: https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/bugtracker/vanishing-highwaymen-bug

TR_m4_T_IlvaalmuUnbound

Tried breaking this quest including with calm and command spells, and it always completed correctly. Only "issue" is that once the guards and the townspeople in Teyn attack Ilvaalmu, the player can attack and kill them without consequence (no crime or bounty) as long as they are aggroed to Ilvaalmu. If that's easily changeable, great, if not that's fine too, this is insane gamer logic and it doesn't break the quest itself.

I assume it's working as intended that you can wait until the sun is up again and she dies to sun damage.

TR_m4_wil_BanditDuo

Didn't manage to outright break it (well, except by killing the questgiver), but several problems with this one. None too hard to fix though (I hope).

• The "wanted for murder topic" at the questgiver doesn't check if the quest is finished already, so after it's done he tells you about it again and gives you the choice to take it again (no journal entries at this point though)
• The bandits are set to turn hostile and even have a unique force greeting for it if you attack them a few times while escorting them. Unfortunately, this only checks for stage 50. Which means at any other point they will be totally passive. You can slowly kill one of them, and neither will fight back (only once one is dead, the other starts combat with you). This applies to once they are at the pass (stage 75), as well as any stage prior to telling them you will escort them to the outpost, including when you don't even have the quest.
• If you have taken them to the outpost and kill one of them, and then run upstairs to report to the captain, he will act like you brought in both, and the remaining one will despawn even though they were just hostile to you, as will the corpse of the dead one
• The "oh no you killed my friend" force greeting fires ALWAYS, even if you told them that you would kill them and both of them have started attacking you. Not wrong per se, but breaks the flow of combat
• If you kill the questgiver at any point the quest will remain stuck as there is no death check for him.
• Their script is supposed to make sure that if you take them too far away from their escort goal they will attack you. I didn't manage to make that happen with console shenanigans, but I admit I couldn't be bothered to actually do it properly (by taking them for a really long walk), so put this down as a "maybe double-check", not as an error.
• I tried taking them into the bandit cave that's on the way to armun pass, and they didn't mind going in there and willingly helped me clean it out. Consider adding a check here too, as the player is very likely to encounter this cave when they do this quest, and they shouldn't be so eager to be %PCName's lackeys.
• This is a minor quibble, but why does the guard captain know the full name of the bandits? Did they introduce themselves loudly when they killed the guy and someone heard? You could obviously imagine a reason for that, but if he just said "two imperials" that's just as clear (there's no one else he could possibly be talking about), and it's easier to imagine that someone just spotted them doing the crime and then returning to their camp. Note that if this is changed, it needs to be changed in the journal entries too.
• he is called NIRPUS?

TR_m4_wil_StrayGuars

This quest is fundamentally broken because of what it think is a merge miscommunication issue. Basically, there is a creature called Stray Caravan Guar (T_Mw_Fau_GuarPackStray) that is in one random AA levelled list. Then there is a creature with the same name but the ID TR_m4_Cr_StrayGuar. Only the latter has the script that makes it work for this quest, and there are only five of them in specific locations and they don't respawn. So I can only assume the questmaker intended for that script to be applied to all the random stray guars in AA, and the five are just there for proof of concept. This is relatively easily fixed by not using the T_MW version at all (which can probably then be deprecated as a result), and instead making a new TR_m4 levelled list with the quest guars.

Mechanically I found no issues. Returning multiple guars at once works too. I did console spawn in the guars close to the outpost and only walked them the last stretch, because walking all of them there from their intended spawn would be really obnoxious, so keep that in mind.

Speaking of obnoxious, though... the fact that even if you found a guar it has a 30% chance to attack you or die on the spot is just cruel. And for the final reward (which is just more money), you need to deliver 20 of those fuckers (even ignoring you can only get 5 at the moment). It almost feels like a quest poking fun at players for trying to do it, which isn't bad per se, but then it maybe should have an even worse reward.

Thankfully, it comes with essentially a toggle, so you can always tell the merchants you'll stop looking now, and can pick it up again if you want to, and it adds and removes it from your journal. Still, players might not realise that's an option, so I question whether this quest needs to have an open journal entry at all. This would have the added bonus that it can't get stuck if you kill both merchants either.

Merged the above two files in https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/comment/26270#comment-26270