I agree, let's try to move towards the actual assassination event.
So, we have Rex and Farth already talking, and Skies who just approached them. OP and myself are still solo foreigners chilling in the tavern, and Ponder and Gidian have yet to enter.
How best do we approach this? Should there be some mass commotion outside, which prompts all our characters to leave the tavern, witnessing the assassination unfolding right outside? Then our characters finally all meet up in the hectic aftermath?