Who sells the Riften one?  I think I encountered whomever it was and forgot, and now I haven't seen them again.

Riften steward.

She's usually near the Jarl.

That's what I thought, but she no longer gives me the option...

i lost my battling companion after 12 levels of staying with me,right from the beginning,he got posioned and finished off by a couple of monsters before i could help him out,i killed them with a vengence,i wish i could have given him a burial and bought him a plot in a graveyard or something,that would be so cool,he wil be missed

especially as i am a dirty bi female wood elf,i was going to marry him,oh well onto the next one

Hmm you know, followers are meant to just stagger and kneel when their health reaches zero, and they will revive after enemies are defeated. The only instance where they die is if the player hits them (this info is from the wiki, but also thru experience). I saw my wife playing and the only time the follower died is when she accidently torched her with flames (she's not very good at aiming with the right stick).

So it might have been you who delivered the fatal blow to your follower. Well it should have been that way anyways, but this is Skyrim, so it may have just bugged out on you...

oh,that sounds right,i was starting to think he couldn't die,i really thought he got finished off by a couple of montsers while we were all poisoned by arrows,which don't really effect me,i guess i must have finished him off,seems a bit silly if only i can finish off my chum,he will stil be missed,he fought bravely

Yeah, something similar happened to me.  The immortal dog that can be your companion won't die, and he takes aggro well, but he's annoying about running into you and getting in your way, so I finished off his quest and got rid of him.

I play as a loner, no follower for me.
Death unseen !

The Thieve guild missions sure take forever... played half the day yesterday and there's still more!

Amazon redid their $19.99 lightning deal for Resistance 3, so I went ahead and got it. Should be good for the cheap ass sharpshooter I picked up a while back.

And you have to run a lot of the jobs type mission to become guild master...