X'rax

"The X'rax doesn't believe you. If you wanted to survive you'd run. Instead you tried to kill the X'rax. The X'rax doesn't like that at all. So can we kill him now since he 's useless and a hinderance. Or shall we see if he knows more?" X'rax lights a fire with Fire Bolt. He then uses Mage Hand to heat up his greatsword in the fire and has it ready to protude into the bandits skin.

Looking at the cut at his chest he turns to Falynn "Thank you. The X'rax owes you one." leaving the sword to hover in front of the bandit.

 Nessie puts her daggers away in a flourish as to say, my services aren't needed here, but then turns to The X'rax and says quietly to him so the bandit can't hear, "If he knows nothing, he may know who does know and if he does know who knows then we can keep him as a prisoner until we find out who he knows that knows so then we would know and who knows maybe a captive could come in handy... traps... ransom... you know?"

Hasnel is also going to search the bandit for any weapons.

Hansel finds that each bandit has a scimitar and a shortbow.  The alive bandit’s are off to the side where he dropped them.  They each have a dagger on their belt, as well.  The alive one makes no move toward it, and no attempt to hide it.

Directed to X’rax:

”I’m not enough of a fool ta think he wouldn’t chase me.”

Directed to Hansel:

”Er . . .it’s a rock.  Nothin’ special about it, ‘s far as I know.”

Hansel is going to take two scimitars and two daggers and add them to his collection. "Is there anything anyone would like to ask him? I'm done with him?"

(I'll Drizzt this. I've got two-weapon fighting, I might as well use it)

Nessie turns from X'rax, walks toward the bandit pecking at her feathers and  says,

"Hello Bandit. My friend really wants to end you. I don't really like messy stuff. If you know nothing... you better make your life valuable, friend."

"I . . .I mean there's been a few rumors around the place.  Weather acting strangely, monsters appearin' where they shouldn't.  Oh!  There is one thing . . ."

He trails off.

"At least one o' those so-called "Haunted Keeps" is occupied again.  Some group o' animal trainers or knights or somethin' occupied one of 'em.  I forget it's name . . .somethin' about a spire."

"Is that what you consider valuable? Where is the rest of your gang? Who would know more than you, because you don't know anything..."

"My gang?  I wouldn't exactly call us a gang.  Besides, you know where they are.  You killed them.  And those Haunted Keeps—they haven't been occupied in hundreds of years.  Seems mighty strange they're occupied now, especially with all these other strange happenings.  You mentioned Lance Rock, is anything happening there?"

"Oh. There were only three of you. huh?" Nessie just scans the dead bodies, "I hope they weren't your only friends..." Nessie starts to look solemn, "Sorry, I didn't know. And I didn't know about the haunted keep, not from around here you see." Nessie is starting to look noticeably sad now, "Please tell me you have others, do you have a family? Are you going to be okay? Do you want to come with us!?" as her words progressed she got more and more teary, she said her final sentence in full tears and walked away.

Answering to X'rax, she blushes a bit while answering. "Oh, no. You don't need to keep tabs on what you own me or not, consider that my own retribution given to you for even letting me enter the team."

(That's way back there, I didn't have time to answer, so I'm doing it now.)

Responding to the latest info given by the bandit, and Nessie's reaction to it, Falynn responds. "Ok, if you need my opinion, I think this already has been productive enough for what we could take from a random bandit on the wilds. I still refer to the group as to what course action we should do next, but in his situation, I think he's not talking more because he simply doesn't have anything more to say."

She says this, but eyes him on the sides, trying to see if she finds any hints that he's still trying to hide something. It's under the false sense of safety that she believes people tend the more often to make a mistake such as that one.

Insight 9

As far as you know, the bandit is not intentionally hiding anything or leaving out information.  The information he gave you appears to be accurate, at least according to him.

X'rax

"What do we do with him? The X'rax doesn't want to burden the X'rax with a useless prisoner. If you are against killing him, shall we bring him to the authorities before venturing on? How come these bandits have no stash of loot? The X'rax still doesn't believe him."

(No one ever said they were successful bandits.)

“Maybe I can bind his hands and pin a note to him for the sheriff?”

(did the bandit react to Nessie’s freak out?)

"Since his presence clearly doesn't pose too much troubles for us in the future, seeing as he's not all that good of a bandit, I wouldn't be opposed to letting him live in the jail for his misdeeds, instead of the more drastic option of killing him here and now." As Falynn finishes, she puts the shield back in the tie around her back, seeing its use out of a fight was only to slow her down, or so was her thinking about it.

Hansel nods. "We would have to send him back or we could leave him here and swing around and grab him on the way back." 

X'rax

"The X'rax likes the way you're thinking. Let's hamstring him and leave him something to eat. Then we can pick him up on our way back. Anyone got a knife?" 

"Here." Nessie says to The X'rax offering him a dagger. "We can leave him with my rations. I'll find something along the way."

You see the bandit's eyes slowly widen at the mention of hamstringing him.

"Uh . . .I'll stay here.  You know . . .you . . .don't have to do that.  You could just tie me up.  You took my knife."