How to Complete the Hired Muscle Quest in Skyrim

Last Updated: May 26, 2015

Hired Muscle is one of the quests that you need to do in order to complete the Companions storyline in the city of Whiterun. In this particular mission, one of the Companion members named Farkas will tell you that a certain person is causing trouble in a random location and that you need to take care of it. Hired Muscle is one of many “radiant” type quests available in Skyrim. Radiant quests are missions that involve random non-playable characters, places, and objects to complete it.

Steps

1
Start the quest. Head to Jorrvaskr, the easternmost hall in Whiterun, and talk to Farkas, one of the members of the Companions. Ask him for a job, and he will tell you to that a specific person is causing trouble in a certain place. He’ll tell you that you need to go to that place and intimidate that person to fix the problem.
- The person and place you need to go to will be at random, so make sure that you pay attention to what Farkas is saying to get the full details of the quest.
2
Go to the area as pointed in the map. Open your map and you’ll see that a new location has been marked with a pointer. Go to that place marked on your map to continue with your quest.

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3
Find the person to intimidate. Once you get to the place marked on your map, roam around the area and look for a non-playable character with an arrow marker on top of his or her head. An arrow marker means that this is the person you are looking for.
4
Intimidate the person. Approach the person and talk to him or her. The non-playable character will speak a short dialogue, and afterwards, a speech menu will appear on the screen.
- Select “Intimidate” from the speech menu, and your character will say something intimidating.
5
Continue intimidating. Depending on the character you’ll have to deal with, you might need to intimidate the person more than once. Continue intimidating as necessary until the target person breaks.
6
Go back to Farkas. Once you’ve broken the target person, head back to Whiterun and report to Farkas to complete the Hired Muscle mission.

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