After this good news, the party sat down and tried to come up with a plan to see the seneschal of the castle to warn him about the bombs. They dressed up as emissaries to Rykasha and paraded into the castle and received an audience with the Magistrate instead. As they were sitting in the room waiting for the magistrate to see them, three men walked through the hall and into the magistrate’s chambers without even knocking. When Jolan saw who the man in the lead was, his face went bone white, for the man was his sworn enemy Hacasin. The party talked for a while and chose to stay and wait for the Magistrate to speak to them. Hemisal emerged from the chambers a little while later and had a confrontation with Jolan and then left.
They spoke at length with the magistrate, and found out that the king is currently not seeing visitors until the spring festival. Rykasha made an appointment to give her gift directly to the kings during the festivities. The Magistrate said that he would provide quarters for them while they are in the city and then excused them out of his office.
The PCs went back to their inn that night and discussed a few things and then went to sleep. They awoke to the sound of battle erupting around them, and proceeded to fight the men who were trying to knock them unconscious. Once they dispatched the threat, they questioned the one man left alive and found out that they were trying to knock them out and steal their treasure. The party called down to the barkeep and told him to fetch the guards and to clean up their room. They then moved their gear to the other adjacent room and proceeded to sleep some more.
The PCs awoke again to the sound of the door being forcibly broken open and the sounds of men shouting.