City Gate

"We are adventurers returning from a long journey, we ask to enter and refresh ourselves in a warm inn."

"Gentlemen, it is late, we have just closed the doors, I am sorry, you will have to wait until the sun rises."

"Until tomorrow morning?! But that is not possible, we are tired and hungry!"

The guard seemed blameless, but Silk dropped some silver coins on the ground, where the guard could reach and pick them up.
A few minutes later we were sitting in the inn, drinking beer and eating stewed potatoes