Prerequisites: Complete Thieves Guild Quest: Loud and Clear

Intersecting Quests: Thieves Guild Quest: Additional Jobs, Thieves Guild Quest: Larceny Targets, Thieves Guild Quest: Scoundrel’s Folly

Locations: Honningbrew Meadery, Honningbrew Basement, Honningbrew Boilery, Riften, The Bee and Barb, Black-Briar Manor, Cistern, Ratway, The Ragged Flagon, Whiterun, The Bannered Mare

Characters: Brynjolf, Commander Caius (if Imperials hold Whiterun), Mallus Maccius, Maven Black-Briar, Sabjorn, Sinmir (if Stormcloaks hold Whiterun)

Enemies: Frostbite Spider, Hamelyn, Venomfang Skeever,

Objectives: Speak to Maven Black-Briar, Speak to Mallus Maccius, Speak to Sabjorn, Poison the Nest, Poison the Honningbrew Vat, Return to Sabjorn, Attend the tasting ceremony, Speak to Mallus Maccius, Identify Sabjorn’s silent partner, Return to Maven Black-Briar, Return to Brynjolf

A Plan Is Brewing

Objective: Speak to Maven Black-Briar

Target: Black-Briar Manor or the Bee and Barb in Riften

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You begin this quest with the previous objective already active. Leave the Ragged Flagon and find Maven...