Welp, turns out the guards outside and inside Neriak conned dubious to me. The quest NPC was threatening however. So a nice enchanter ended up charming the NPC for me
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Didn't try the invis trick because he was white con and probably would've attacked me.
2 bags of wine later and I am kindly. Thanks for the help guys.