Board Thread:Oblivion/@comment-98.66.134.58-20150530203133/@comment-6881629-20150530204838

Make sure you have the Scrap from Lorgren's Diary (and the Skeletal Hand) with you as well as his disposition being at or over sixty. You also might have to go though the dialog (to progress the quest) to hunt him down if you went straight to the tavern.