I'm curious to see how much time and effort fellow DMs put into this part of the campaign. I've had quite a bit of combat, dungeon crawling, etc. so far in the campaign and I'm looking forward to see a bit more RPing in this section.
First of all I've fleshed out quite a bit of the "games" and such. I even took some of the events described in "To The Games" in the most recent Dungeon #132 (thanks Paizo!!!), such as archery games and throwing a large hammer. I've also increased the cost to enter and rewards in my game (such as a +1 returning and throwing dagger "trophy" for the dagger throwing contest). I've got games and contests to last the entire week of the Flood Festival.
However, I am a bit stuck on the Demonskar Ball. All of the PCs are going to receive invitations (of course) and the warmage (another noble in the city) is going to go as Nabthatoron. I'm looking for some intersting events and encounters to happen during the ball. I had a great RPing moment between the party and the Stormblades, and there's a lot of bad blood there. The hardcover suggests that the Stormblades invited the PCs to get a chance to embarass them and save some face, but what type of event could I set up to do that?
Check out this thread (from the archives) for some thoughts on the demonscar ball.