So my wood elf was chatting it up with a [censored] in an inn when she said that she was looking for someone to do some work. She wanted me to go to an inn in a nearby village to steal a letter from a courier there and replace it with a fake letter. Fairly common quest.
So I go to the inn, upon entering it greets me with the quest message, something like "This tavern looks like any other, but for you it must be a place of stealth and shadows", or something like that. I go upstairs and find the letter, sitting under another item like always, and take the letter. Nothing happens. Was there supposed to be a quest notification? I don't know. So I drop the fake letter, and a message pops up "as the letter full of lies leaves your fingertips, you know your quest is half done". Half done? Huh? Do they mean the other half is returning to the quest giver for my reward? Alright, whatever... I go back to the quest giver, and she won't talk to me. Clicking on her does nothing.
I've reloaded and tried it a couple of times, to no avail. The quest seems bugged. Or am I forgetting to do something?

I know there was one woman in a tavern who I couldn't click on for the life of me, and I knew she had a job to offer.

Maybe this is happening to you. Maybe, when you took the quest, you clicked her on the one good spot, by a fluke, and now you can't click her again. Try levitating up and clicking her. Just keep clicking her from all different angles.

Thanks, levitating worked. I should've figured it'd be something like funny angles, this *is* daggerfall after all.