Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-108.203.29.162-20130730044707

I waited to complete my Delivery to Ri'saad until after I completed Darkness Returns. I spoke with Tonilla, and then to Brynjolf. And experienced the exact same situation where he said some things to me and then just kept telling me he was busy. But I noticed one of the vender stalls in the Ragged Flagon was still empty. So I went over the list of City Influence quests, and correctly guessed that I hadn't completed the Markarth one (I have 3 Skyrim characters going at once, so sometimes I forget who has completed which missions...). I had Devlin and Vex send me to Markarth several times until the quest became available and once that stall was up at the Ragged Flaggon, Brynjolf became more talkative.

If Brynjolf is acting like that, check the Ragged Flaggon, in the wall around the pond, there is the door, directly across from the bar;  there are two "cubby-holes" on either side of the door that should be filled with a shop vender. If one isn't, you still need to complete a city influence quest.  