You find tourists turning back having heard rumours that bandits have been attacking people on the mountain pases.
Wenothem - will swoop down from mountain and try and drag targets off the cliff edge - their shamans use feather fall to stop their fall to stop their fall but let the targets fall to their death.
If they kill the bandits when they get to Newhigh the non noble members will be contacted by Raymo Ison.
When they get to Newhigh news reaches them that king is said to be ill and to have taken to his bed at Mountpeak.