Morrowind:Nerano Manor Key

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1 Quick Walkthrough
2 Detailed Walkthrough
3 Notes
4 Quest Stages

Get the key to Nerano Manor.^edit

Quest Giver: Sugar-Lips Habasi at the South Wall Cornerclub in Balmora
Location(s): Balmora
Prerequisite Quest: Diamonds for Habasi
Next Quest: Ra'Zhid's Dwemer Artifacts
Reward: 500 gold
Disposition: +10 Disposition
Reputation Gain: +5 Thieves Guild Faction Reputation
ID: TG_ManorKey

Sugar-Lips Habasi wants a key to the Manor...

[edit] Quick Walkthrough

Chat with Sugar-Lips Habasi about jobs and Nerano Manor.
Acquire a key to Nerano Manor from Ondres Nerano or Sovor Trandel.
Give the key to Sugar-Lips Habasi to complete the quest and receive your reward.

[edit] Detailed Walkthrough

[edit] Job

Sugar-Lips Habasi in Balmora's South Wall Cornerclub asks you to acquire the key to Nerano Manor. There are two copies, one held by Ondres Nerano in the manor itself (he is downstairs but the key opens the upstairs), and his servant Sovor Trandel, who hangs out at the Council Club (near the Silt Strider).

[edit] Obtaining the Key

The cleanest (although often hardest) way to acquire the key is to pickpocket it from one of them. You might like to save and reload a few times until you succeed.

Alternately, you can kill Sovor (ideally taunting him into attacking you so you don't get a bounty). He is fully expendable, and if you're also doing Larrius Varro's quest (talk to him at Moonmoth Legion Fort to start it), you're supposed to kill him anyway.

You can can also persuade him to 70 Disposition. Then he will ask for a little compensation and give you the key if you bribe enough.

Yet another way is to attack Ondres with hand-to-hand attacks. He's useless at it, so shouldn't be hard to take down. Once he goes down you can take it off him. If you kill him you'll still be able to pass the quest, however Habasi angrily takes the key without paying you because now the house won't have any new valuables in it for a long, long time.

[edit] Complete the Quest

Once you have the key be sure to clear out the Manor yourself before returning to Habasi. She'll pay you 500 gold for the key, and that's in addition to anything you already took from the house.

[edit] Notes

If you've activated Larrius Varro's quest the other patrons, all of whom along with Sovor are members of the Camonna Tong, will attack when you fight Sovor, so you may have quite a bar fight on your hands. If this happens just grab the key and high-tail it out of there, you can return to kill the others later.
If you are a member of House Redoran, you will be asked to duel Ondres. If you kill him in this duel, you will be penalized by the Thieves Guild, but Ondres will give up if you knock him out or his health drops below 50.
If you get the key by bribing, you can return it to Ondres Nerano and receive 10 gold as well as a Disposition increase. Ondres gets pretty mad and "will deal" with Sovor Trandel. Sovor will no longer be at the Council Club making it easier to complete Larrius Varro's quest. If you go back to Sugar-Lips Habasi empty handed, she'll yell at you and send you back to get an extra key. Of course now you will have to pickpocket it.
If you bribe Sovor Trandel for the key, you can get another copy of the key if/when you kill him for Larrius Varro.
You can find some exquisite clothes in Nerano's Room upstairs

[edit] Quest Stages

Index	Journal Entry
10	Sugar-Lips Habasi asked me to bring her the key to the top floor of the Nerano Manor here in Balmora. Ondres Nerano certainly has a key, but it may be easier to get the key from one of his servants, such as Sovor Trandel at the Balmora Council Club.
30	Sovor Trandel has suggested that, for a little "compensation," he'd be willing to help me out.
50	I convinced Sovor Trandel to give me the key to Nerano Manor.
70	I told Ondres Nerano that Sovor Trandel gave me a key to his manor. Ondres Nerano gave me 10 gold as a reward.
100	Sugar-Lips Habasi thanked me for bringing her the key to Nerano Manor.