A Matter of Honor

Overview
Faction: Dark Brotherhood Quest Giver: Dead Drop Orders #5 Reward: 500

Walkthrough
You are to kill a Dark Elf named Alval Uvani. This quest can be rather difficult for two reasons. One, your target is a traveling merchant; as soon as you fast-travel to his location, he'll most likely be somewhere else. A schedule is included with your orders to make him easier to find. Otherwise just jump on your horse and ride to him instead of fast-traveling. The second problem is that he is a battlemage (a master of destruction magic).

The order suggests to put out some mead (make sure no other food is around) and let him drink it. As soon as he drinks the mead, he's paralyzed (he has a nasty allergy to honey), from which you can finish him off. If there are other people around, once he's paralyzed you can actually push him around a corner and out of sight to ensure no one is alerted when you kill him.

Or, alternatively, you can simply kill him should you have the strength. However, this is best done when he is not in a city.

Another option is available however. Acquire a poison apple and use the same strategy as the mead, but instead this time, you don't even have to finish him off, and therefore avoid risking trouble with the law

For your reward and next set of orders, head to the market district of Imperial City. Behind the Stonewall Shields shop, you'll find a hollowed-out tree stump containing your reward and next orders.

Journal Entries
Upon receiving the quest:
 * I have picked up my next contract from the dead drop in the coffin outside Fort Redman. I have been ordered to kill Alval Uvani, a Dark Elf merchant who spends his time traveling around Cyrodiil. I should consult the schedule that has been left for me to determine where and when I should strike. Uvani is a master in the Destruction school of magicka, and has killed before, but he does have a weakness: if Alval Uvani drinks Mead, he will be rendered immobile, due to a rare allergy to honey.

After killing Unavi:
 * I have killed Alval Uvani. I must pick up my reward and next contract at the dead drop located in the Market District of the Imperial City, in a hollowed-out tree stump behind Stonewall Shields.