Loud and Clear



This is the first quest given after you finish "Taking Care of Business" and join the Thieve's Guild.

1. Make your way to the Goldenglow estate by following your map marker.

2. Either sneak in via the sewers, from behind the estate. Do not be detected.

3. Follow your map marker to the Bee hives. You will need a torch for this part of the quest. Once you have a torch, equip it, hold block, then attack a hive. It will catch on fire. Repeat to 3 hives. You will likely be detected, so run back into the sewers and enter Skyrim once more to clear detection.

4. Pick the lock of the Goldenglow estate's back door. It is on expert difficulty, but not too hard. From here on, you will need to sneak up to the second floor of the estate, where you will find another locked door. This is Aringoth's room. Be weary of the hired mercenaries on your way to the second floor. Simply sneak past them while they aren't looking.

5. Once you pickpocket Aringoth, who is crouching in a corner in his room, leave his room and make your way to the basement, which is through a steel barred gate, in the same hallway of the patrolling guard.

6. Sneak through the basement, following your map marker. It is possible to sneak past all of the guards, except one; the last guard who is sitting in a chair at the end of the blood-soaked hallway. You must kill him, then go down the stairs. If you pickpocketed Aringoth, which you should have, then the safe, which is in a corner, will unlock effortlessly. Retrieve the document and gold from the safe.

7. After you escape the estate, return to Brynjolf. He will be in the Cistern of The Ragged Flagon. An easier and cooler way to get there is to go to Riften's graveyard, and press the button on the large tomb to reveal a secret passageway.

Rewards: 100 gold