- "Most of the establishments in Skyrim keep their transactions recorded within business ledgers. Your job would be to change the numbers in those books so the shortfalls from our other jobs look legit."
- ―Delvin Mallory[src]
The Numbers Job is a quest available in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in which the Dragonborn must forge the numbers and information of a business ledger of a business in Skyrim.
Background[]
I've been told to forge false entries in the ledger at a business in a city. I need to complete this job without killing any of the location's residents or getting caught and spending time in jail.
Objectives[]
- Make changes in the ledger at the business in the city
- Return to Delvin
Walkthrough[]
The Numbers Job is a type of quest given by Delvin Mallory in The Ragged Flagon as extra work for the Thieves Guild. The purpose of a numbers job is to change information in business ledgers located in various stores and inns around Skyrim. The Numbers Job is one of the radiant story quests available in Skyrim, and thus, is randomized in the locations that the character is sent to.
Possible jobs[]
| List of Targets for the quest |
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Rewards[]
| Level | 
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| 1–5 | 50 |
| 6–10 | 100 |
| 11–15 | 150 |
| 16–20 | 200 |
| 21–26 | 250 |
| 27–31 | 300 |
| 32–36 | 350 |
| 37–41 | 400 |
| 42+ | 500 |
Journal[]
| The Numbers Job – TGRFO | |
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| ID | Journal Entry |
| 10 | I've been told to forge false entries in the ledger at <Alias=Business> in <Alias=City>. I need to complete this job without killing any of the location's residents or getting caught and spending time in jail.
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| 50 | I've forged false entries in the ledger at <Alias=Business> in <Alias=City>.
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| 200 | I've successfully completed the job and received my share of the pay.
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| 250 | By killing a resident at the task's location, I've failed this job and was forced to forfeit my share of the pay.
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During the course of the task, I was arrested and sent to the local jail. I've therefore failed the job and was forced to forfeit my share of the pay.
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Before the task could be completed, I decided to quit. I've therefore failed the job and forfeited any pay I might have received.
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Bugs[]
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This section contains bugs related to The Numbers Job. Before adding a bug to this list, consider the following:
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- PC 360 XB1 PS3 PS4 NX Sometimes Delvin will give a mission for a ledger that cannot be accessed. For instance, if Haelga's Bunkhouse's ledger in Riften is the intended target, you are pointed toward a crate with which you cannot interact with nor can you interact with the ledger in the building. To get around this, the quest should be quit or request a new one from Delvin (reloading from a save before you accepted the mission is presumably the safest) or, on the PC, use the console command
setstage tgrfo 50to complete the objective. - UPDATE: As of 1.3.10 update this is still occurring randomly with these quests. The quest to modify the ledger at the inn in Windhelm was received and even though no other quests were accepted in the inn and nobody was killed, the quest still failed with Delvin saying the player had killed someone. Recommend performing this quest immediately after getting it and returning to Delvin immediately to turn in to avoid bugs.
- If the quest targets the Drunken Huntsman and you have killed Anoriath (Elrindir's brother) in the Dark Brotherhood side quest prior, the quest will fail when you turn it in. Delvin will say you killed someone during it.
- If the quest "Repairing the Phial" is completed before turning in the Numbers Job (the objective being the White Phial) to Delvin, Delvin will say you killed someone during it and it will fail. (Nurelion dies as part of the quest.)
Appearances[]
| Thieves Guild Quests (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim) | |
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| Main Quest | |
| Delvin's Small Jobs |
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| Vex's Small Jobs | |
| City Influence Jobs | |
| Other | |