I put together a short simple quest for a showcase!  It's not very complicated but I was a complete novice going into this so I learned a lot in the process.  I'm sure there is a lot to improve and errors I'm not catching.  I don't really think this is ready for a full review yet but since this is my first attempt at modding of any kind I would really appreciate some initial feedback to make sure I don't waste a bunch of additional time.

Including my documentation below:

A Simple Delivery

Global Dialogue:

latest rumors (waterfront narsis only): I hear Bilderu Ranan needs some help with a delivery.  Careful though, there are rumors that he works the Camonna Tong.

Topics:

a simple delivery -- main topic to advance quest with various NPCs

Greetings:

Greeting5 - Journal based -- Added unique greetings to Telean, Bilderu Ranaan and Relran
-- While traveling I have a greeting for each version of Relran which says "come on, its up here." and then closes the dialogue.

Walkthrough

Talk with Bilderu Ranan to start the quest in the Waterfront district.  Topic is added via greeting "a simple delivery"

Bilderu directs you to the warehouse.  You should talk with Telean to get the shipment which consists of 9 shien and 7 matze.  This is meant to be sizable so the PC must have a decent amount of inventory weight free.

Optionally the PC can talk with the scribe, Kausha to get a little nugget that this may not be a straightforward task.  The captain hasn't logged anything about the delivery, but you are encouraged to go ahead.

The player then goes to the Merchant's Purse in the Grand Bazaar, Underground.  There they talk with Maldus, the prioprietor and he directs them to his associate (NEW NPC -- Relran Densul).  Maldus does a check with the NPC to make sure they do have the shipment and if not he gets upset with the player.

Left unsaid is that Maldus does business with the Camonna Tong and Relran is a low level thug that hangs out to provide "protection".  He sees an easy mark and decides to rob the player.

Relran asks the player to follow him and he leaves the Merchant's Purse and then walks through the Grand Bazaar, Underground until he gets to the sewer.  At this point he goes into the sewer and the player can choose to follow or not -- at the moment I don't really have handling around the player NOT following.  Will come up with something there (open to suggestions!)

Once in the sewer Relran goes down to the hallway until reaching a nice ambush point.  There he is met by another Camonna Tong thug and then he turns and forcegreets the player.  At this point he is going to shake the player down.  However if the player has UNDER 200g on him Relran will comment about how the player isnt' worth robbing and lets him go (the player can still force a fight).  IF the player has MORE than 200g on him then the player will have a choice to either give up the money or start a fight.  If starting a fight the secondary Camonna Tong thug joins in and must be defeated.

If the player either gives Relran the gold OR fights afterword he can return to Maldus to close the quest.  IF the player has killed Relran, Maldus is happy and gives a higher reward assuming the player still has the shipment.  If not he is more gaurded but still gives a small reward (not enough to cover the shakedown), again if the player has the shipment.  If the player does NOT have the shipment but has killed Relran he understands and still gives a decent reward, but if not he gets upset and sends the player on there way.

Note: the checks for the shipment are intentionally 1 less than what was given.  This is understanding that sometimes things get skimmed off the top and also to protect the player if they accidently drink one of the provisions.

Scripting Summary:

tr_m7_q_simple1: this is a simple script that is added to the items on the warehouse shelf to give the impression to the player that they are being used as the shipment.  Just disables them upon journal entry.  Note that I've created a unique version of matze and shein to use for this quest so that the script does not attach to ALL instances of Matze and shein.

tr_m7_q_simple2: This is the first NPC script for Relran.  It sets variables for nolore, timers and a control variable (state) to track progress and his actions depending on question state.  It also exits if state 3 (everything is completed) or if menumode is active.

The first state (0) executes upon a getjournal call which moves Relran to the door.  

The next state determines if he has reached the door, and then after a short timer plays the door sound and disables Relran.  This also moves the Journal to the next phase which will be used in the next script to enable a new version of Relran to have him walk to the sewers.

The final state only happens if the quest is closed and you did NOT kill Relran (using a Journalentry -- I don't THINK the player can short circuit this but wondering if there is a better way to accomplish this).  Basically it sets a short timer and Relran is reenabled and takes his spot back in the bar.

tr_m7_q_simple3: This script moves a new copy of Relran through the grand bazaar, undergound to the entrance to the sewers.  Works the same as script2 and moves the journal forward again to use in the next cell.

tr_m7_q_simple4: Final script for Relran (3rd copy) -- this one moves him to the ambush spot and faces the player (assuming the player is in a logical spot).  Then it does a distance check (in case the player ran away) and checks the players gold.  If the player has UNDER 200g it moves to a slightly different journal (same text but different number) than what they get if they have OVER 200g.  Both checks then forcegreet to start the shakedown.

Finally the last state of the script disables Relran IF the player paid him once they are far enough away.

tr_m7_q_simple5: very simple NPC script for the Camonna Tong thug that is with Relran for the ambush.  Basically just enables / disables and makes sure if you attack Relran AFTER paying him (or not having enough gold) she will also join in.  Also disables once the quest advances and the player moves far enough away.

CELL EDITS:

Narsis, Grand Bazaar: Underground
-- Added Relran2
-- sewer door -- Need to clean?

Narsis, Ranan Warehouse
-- Swapped out 7 matze and 9 shein with quest versions for the script, placement should be almost identical
-- Slightly moved Telean to make it look more natural when disabling the "provisions"
-- Removed Telean's wander (not a cell edit)

Narsis, Sewers: Grand Bazaar
-- the sewer door somehow -- Need to clean?
-- Added Relran3 and Gervil Vhul

Narsis, The Merchant's Purse
--  a stool to try to get a position -- need to clean? (side note -- is there a good tip for finding a position?  I couldn't find anything useful in the documentation I've read to this point)
-- the door -- need to clean?
-- Added Relran

General Questions/ Notes:

Found 1 error already that I can / will fix -- when you get the quest the greeting doesn't get updated for Bilderu so you can keep agreeing (or not) to the quest over and over.

The messageboxes in the scripts are just for debugging purposes -- will be removed for final product.

Relran walking to the intended destination isn't umm.. perfect?  Are there any tips to smooth this out?

I see how I can condition dialogue and different actions on faction / reputation / rank but I'm curious if there is a good way to control for if the person has completed the main quest.  If so I think a quest like this probably shouldn't even be offered (at least assuming the quest giver recongizes the player).  I may also add conditioning where if you are > particular level whe you talk to Relran he decides discretion is the better part of valor and just takes the shipment from you and completes the quest.  That may make the most sense?

I also wasn't really sure how I should power / equip the NPCs the player fights in this.  I gave them some low level gear and made sure their stats made sense.  Gave the nightblade 1 spell (absorb fatigue).  Should be a straightforward fight and a player level 10+ I don't think will have to many issues.

On cleaning -- I ran TESAME and saw how to easily clean the dialogue entries but I admit I was a bit lost when I tried to figure out how to remove my edits to the cells.  The autoclean function said everything was ok?  I feel like I'm missing something here.

Thanks so much for reading!  I'm sure there are lots of tweaks needed, so please let me know how I can address things!