Welcome, and congrats on making the jump to contribute to TR!

I'll try to have an in-game look at your quest some time next week, Razenmaeher; I'll let you know how it goes. Your showcase looks ambitious, but since you're not aiming to have it actually implemented in TR, the main thing we need to check is whether it works out-of-the-box or not, and how well you can iterate on feedback.

Thanks already for the documentation you wrote for the showcase, it's very complete, and will prove useful while playtesting it! (For the record, next time, you can just as well post this documentation right in a forum post, instead of in a PDF inside the 7zip downoad.)

Oh, and no need to be so formal in your writing around here: the whole team is very friendly, relaxed, and to-the-point. Take it easy! ;-)

Hi again! I just gave your showcase a spin in-game, and am here to report. While it is definitely unbalanced and not lore-friendly, so won't be fitting for inclusion in TR, the quest itself works almost flawlessly! You clearly know your way around the CS, manage to strike the right tone in most places, and are quite fluent in english (you use idiomatic phrases, etc). You also managed to catch most bugs yourself before submitting the quest, and provided all console codes required to make playtesting easier, which I'm very thankful for. So overall, it's great!

Here are a couple points to address, though: the only game-braking one is found in Quest 2, the others are small things, or even things you could chose to ignore, depending on your reasoning. Note that since you're not aiming for inclusion of the quest into TR, I don't report all the small typo/dialogue flow problems I saw (not that many, but they're a couple), but that's fine, we'll care about such details on your first actual claim. ;-) Here we go:
Quest 1:

• bringing Nefarian a Mortar and Pestle of better quality than Journeyman should also be accepted.
• the area with the hidden dwemer spider is too close to the tent, and its grunts can be heard by the player while staying in the tent, hinting that something fishy's up. If that's intentional, though, everything's fine.

Quest 2:

• I found no way to start this quest: talking to Rilvin during quests 1 and 3, or before quest 1, didn't yield the required topic to start the quest. I also tried while being member of House Telvanni, to no avail. Maybe I'm just missing something?

Quest 3:

• the power-finding spider should actually spit out pieces of paper when the player uses it to find out where to look for the next gem (ie have a piece of paper appear on the ground, with the text currently in the dialogue window written on it)
• the journal entry for the second gem (the Gem of Soul) suggests that the players asks Nefarian where the chasm lies. Nefarian has no topic for that, however.
• the hint for the third gem has a typo: "Forgotten Vaults" --> "Forgotten Vault" (if your intent is to give the cell's exact name)
• the dwemer spider skips the hint for the 4th gem (Space), and moves on straight to the 5th (Power). It does come back to the 4th gem after the 6th, though, so it's not quest-breaking.
• there is no journal entry for finding the 6th gem (Mind)
• the Gems of Reality and Mind have no topic entry in Nefarian's dialogue.
• Nefarian Nelos, topic Gems of Infinity: maybe his line could be slightly altered, so that as long as the player doesn't have all six Gems, he urges him to go looking for them.
• Rilvin Dral, topic Gems of Infinity: he has the same line as other NPCs on the topic, resulting in him speaking about himself in the third person. This should be changed so that he has a special line.

Quest 4:

• there is no journal entry for killing Rilvin Dral, even though there is one for killing Nefarian.
• shouldn't the NPC Nefarian Nelos get deactivated upon him becoming the new Rilvin Dral? It's confusing to still see him around his tent. This could be achieved elegantly with some spell effect, maybe.

Overall:

• you should remove the mesh that comes with this showcase: quest claims are typically ESP-only, in TR. If a quest requires new assets, then placeholder assets are used until those new ones are included in Tamriel_Data. Thus it's perfectly fine to replace your custom meshes with some placeholder ones, for the purpose of this showcase.

That's it. I'd advise you address those points in a new upload (or if you choose to ignore some of them, just write a quick justification, that's fine). That new upload can then be playtested by me and reviewed in the CS by someone else (I only check the in-game side of things), and we should be done. Looking forward to the update!

razenmaeher
You should be able to get access to the second quest. It is supposed to be accessible if you finish the quests that are related with him an his mouth. I will look at how you approached the quest and fix it asap.

That'd be it, then: I playtested the quest with a brand-new, console-buffed character, which is the standard procedure around here. It's totally OK to have the quest be relying on progress in a faction, but don't forget to specify it in the description next time this occurs.

As for the order of the gems: good to know! I see you thought of everything ;)

Hey there,

Nice job fixing all the issues I reported! I managed to playtest Quest 2 this time around, using the console to artificially complete Dral's Telvanni quest to get the "all these distractions" topic to appear.
As you feared, the fixes did introduce new bugs, though. Here they are, divided in "should be fixed" and "nitpicking that doesn't need fixing" categories:

Should be fixed:

• The potion Nefarian's Refresher is missing its mesh and icon: it appears as a magenta square in the player's inventory, and as a yellow-and-black exclamation mark in the gameworld.
• The gems of Infinity and Time are missing their mesh and icon: they appear as magenta squares in the player's inventory, and as a yellow-and-black exclamation mark in the gameworld. Incidentally, this makes them way easier to spot :P
• There's a discrepancy between the Gems: some are called "Reality Gem of XXX", others "Infinity Gem of XXX". I guess you decided to rename them at some point, but didn't get through the whole list. (Nefarian's topics for each Gem all read "Infinity Gem of XXX", btw, as do the Journal entries).
• After having found all Six Gems, the Spider cycles back to spitting out the Bisandryon hint if the player activates it, instead of stopping to produce hints.
• Quest 4 is now broken: ratting out Nefarian to Rilvin, then killing Nefarian and coming back to Rilvin, it is impossible to collect the reward because the topic new Rilvin Dral has disappeared from Rilvin's list. Loading a previous save back (after having ratted Nefarian out, but before killing him) and trying to kill Rilvin instead also gets the player stuck, since Nefarian's new Rilvin Dral line remains at "Yes that is right....", even after Rilvin's death. I haven't tested what happens if you decide to kill Rilvin from the get-go, without ratting Nefarian out.

Nitpicking that doesn't need fixing:

• There's a typo in the Spider's dialogue for the Massulahibernanit hint: the sentence is cut short after "...Chasm-", and is missing the "bossom of Azura" part.
• The same problem appears in the Ruinous Keep hint: the sentence is cut short.
• There's also a typo on the piece of paper which has the directions to the Ruinous Keep: "power---ful" --> "powerful"
• After having found all Six Gems, the Spider cycles back to spitting out the Bisandryon hint if the player activates it, instead of stopping to produce hints.

I'd advise for a second round of fixing, and after that we should be all set! There are several small typos and wording issues throughout the dialogue, but that really doesn't matter too much since we're not aiming for inclusion of the quest into TR. As for your suggestions of moving on to other quests: we're in a shortage of "easy" quest claims right now, but the situation should be remediated soon. Look out for new quest claims opening in the Browser soon, and claim one that takes your fancy, once you're promoted ;)
 

8 hours between playtest report and fixed version? Now that's what I call a fast turnaround!

I'm sorry if my comment on the additional meshes misguided you: what I had in mind was that you would replace your custom meshes with some others already found in vanilla or Tamriel_Data, not that you would leave those objects mesh-less. I believe the way this is done by other TR questers in need of a unique object is as follow: find an existing object which has the desired appearance, duplicate it, change its properties as needed, and save it as part of your quest's ESP. It'd be good if some other quester could confirm this, though.

I have a final point that I didn't catch earlier: when picking up the first Infinity Gem after having been tasked to do so by Nefarian, the Journal entry "I have picked up a Gem that resonates..." still fires up, as if the player stumbled upon the Gem by chance before ever talking to Nefarian. This should be changed so that this entry doesn't show up in such a case. However, there's no need for you to fix it, this is just a heads-up for future similar things.

Since we're not aiming at inclusion of this quest into TR proper, I think we can bypass the CS review by a dedicated reviewer, so that I'm recommending you for promotion! You've clearly shown that you know how to implement intricate quests, and that you thought of most of the pitfalls (what if the player stumbles upon the quest by chance, etc) in advance. Congrats!

You can now go ahead and claim other quests in the Claims Browser. I see you're interested in the My Death claim already. As Vern points out, the best place to get quick replies to your questions would be TR's Discord server, where most of the active devs hang out every day. The invitation link can be found in the "Community" tab in the website's header bar. Looking forward to meet you there!