Between the ideas of my PCs, my ad-libbing, and me wanting my PCs crazy ideas to happen, hundreds have died.
This thread has SPOILERS!
Also, there is a TLDR at the end.
In the middle of the night before the last day of the trial, the PCs returned from examining Karb Isle a bit after midnight. They were looking for Vorkstag and Grine's and discovered that there was a large group surrounding the punishing man. This was a mix of people waiting through the night to be able to sit in the gallery for the last day of the trial, vendors selling to this late night crowd, and ...people that are on the verge of rioting.
The PCs went back to their camp...except one that decided to head back to the court square and incite a riot. The vendors and line-waiters fled. The rioters armed themselves. SWAT showed up (special guards in full plate with serrated halberds and bandoleers with alchemists fire).
In the end, a few guards died. Dozens of rioters were arrested. A hundred rioters died (some to the alchemists fire). Some of the rioters broke through a window and got in.
Later that morning, the PCs went to Vorkstag and Grine's in a very ungraceful fashion.
TLDR!: I'm looking for some creative advice for these two situations:
1) What did the people that actually got into the courthouse actually get to do?
2) What is the government response to these events?
3) How do you think Vorkstag and Grine would prepare their factory for a small scale siege?
How much does the government, public, etc. know about the PC's involvement? And why did he instigate the rioters whom presumably want the golem killed?