Velmont's plan sounds like a good one. Unless you want to RP things out, I can hand wave most of this.
You find a group of two hobgoblins being led by a particularly large hob that looks like he's been through a meat grinder recently. All three are wounded, and when you come across them, they are picking over the bodies of seven dead humans and two hobgoblins that lie in the open street. It isn't hard for the group of you to overcome them, and force them to quickly surrender.
The wounded leader snarls at you, but is made ammenable thanks to a suggestion to be helpful.
"What is it you want? And speak fast... we need to get out of here. We're outnumbered, you know."
The two other hobgoblins nod in agreement.
OOC: Sorry about my absence. I couldn't get onto this site, mostly since Gary died. I think the two were connected, somehow - the site was flooded, maybe? I had to call in the cable guys to fix things. Anyways, I'm here, and I'm going to try to speed this up a bit.