» Fri May 04, 2012 12:44 am
I'm not certain about this particular quest, but in general, a quest item placed in a dungeon will be an over-sized version of what you'll see in your inventory. Any notes, letters, recipes, maps, scrolls etc show as a piece of slightly curled parchment. They're on their own, not in a loot pile, but sometimes they can be held in the inventory of an enemy. If you have not been told to kill someone holding it, then it will just be on the ground, shelf, box or whatever is the dungeon's quest item location. I don't remember any situations of "in a chest" in Daggerfall.
If you have "cheatmode 1" enabled in your z.cfg, then you can cycle through the quest item locations in the dungeon with the [ and ] keys. Many dungeons have them behind secret doors, or you need to take an elevator to reach them.