No preference, whichever sounds most fun to you! If you chose to go the "good guy" route or the "bad guy" route that includes kidnapping for your own ends, I imagine that would increase the chances that our meeting would culminate in battle, and if you're trying to steal from the gifts the envoy is bringing with them, it would be a toss up on whether we would butt heads or work together. Like I said, lots of room in this thread to make it fun and improvise.
I will say that if another person jumps in, I would like them to take up an opposing viewpoint. So rather than get two guards in there, two other kidnappers, or two thieves, I'd like one of each in any combination so that we're all working off of each other.
I'd hope so since we're facebook friends.