Kayassa will move to ready her blast again, the energy building as she looks to the others. "Should we keep one alive?" She asks as she lets the blast fly towards the more injured Redbrand.

Eldritch Blast: Attack: 7 Damage: 7

Vulmar merely shrugs, waiting to see if the Redbrands cut their losses and surrender.  He takes the Ready action to launch a firebolt at the first Redbrand to make another attack.

Attack: 25 Damage: 5

“We can keep both if they drop their weapons and stop bullying townsfolk,” Orro says, moving closer to the door and looking for the man who had given the redbrands the coin.

Duncan again flips his glaive over to try to knock these thugs out.

Kayassa conjures another eldritch blast that streaks past on of the nearest redbrands, missing them, and causing the nearby wall to shake at the force of the collision. 

Redbrand are up!

At this point, both thugs seem fearful and ready to bail. Their eyes flit to the doorway, but see Orro blocking the way.

“Stop! Stop!” One yells distressfully. “What are you people doing? We were just having some fun. What’s the big deal?” 

Orro. The man the Redbrands were bullying is long gone and you saw him slink out the door a few seconds ago. 

For now we will take a short pause in initiative. Duncan and Vulmar please let me know if you would still like to attack, but the Redbrands are no longer hostile at the moment. What would you like to do?

Vulmar's fiery magic disperses, but his temper does not.  Fully aware of his indignant, simmering rage, he bites his lip hard enough to draw blood.  Better to let the others handle this.

Orro nods to the rest of the group and then steps out of the door, taking a good look for any sign of his departure down the street, in an alley, anything.

Perception: 6

Seeing, apparently, nothing, he comes back inside and says, "Fun? Let's review. You threatened that guy who just completely disappeared, pushed my friend here, threatened him, and you've been seemingly causing trouble for Grista here. We asked you nicely to stop. You declined. You drew steel. We defended ourselves. Well, it seems. You don't own this town, these folks here do."

Duncan, still bleeding from their sword, does not hold his attacks ((but is still going for non-lethal)).

Duncan slaps the nearest thug with the butt of his glaive causing the man to fall to the ground unconscious.

The final Redbrand looks at you with fear. His expression then changes to determination as he tries to run and barge through Orro to escape. “Glasstaff isn’t going to like this,” he mutters as the thug passes. Please make a contested Athletics if you would like to bar his way.

Athletics: 5

Other than that, what would you like to do?

Orro glowers at Duncan, assumedly mid-speech, and tries to grab ahold of the fleeing Redbrand. Athletics: 12

Duncan takes his rope from his pack and jumps towards the thug that Orro is holding on to to tie him up. After tying him up, he drags him down to his knocked out companion on the floor and uses the rest of the 50ft of rope to tie them together. He then stands over the conscious one intimidatingly ((17)) to let anyone else talk to them.

Kayassa will move to stand near the now captive Redbrands, giving a non threatening look as she leans on her staff. "My friend here is right. We defended ourselves from you. Although from what I know you all are nothing but a bunch of thugs that like to bully the weak. But I think that you are different and will be nice and tell us what we want to know so there will be no more need for violence. But if you don't want to my scary friend here might commit more violence...." 

Persuasion: 25

Through the combination of of Duncan’s intimidation and Kayassa’s persuasion, the thug seems scared and is prepared to talk.

”What do you want to know? I’ll tell you anything, just please let me go,” he pleads. 

What would you like to do?

There were many people with questions here, so Vulmar was particularly terse.  There was one main question.

"Gundren.  Dwarf.  You know him?"

"Oh and we want to know why you Redbrands are bothering the people that live here so much." Kayassa adds as she looks at the man.

“...Gundren. Dwarf. ...no. I can’t say I’ve heard or seen anything about him,” the Redbrand says hastily. “I swear. I don’t know anything.”

He then turns to Kayassa. “I mean... that’s way above my pay grade. All I know is some guy called the Black Spider or something like that. He hired us to frighten off adventurers and intimidate locals for some reason. He even gave us some bugbears and goblins to help us out.” The thug says, seeming to be calmer at this point. 

"Was one of those bugbears put in a cave to wait with several goblins along the trail into town?" Kayassa questions, waiting to see if she would need to use her magic to charm the man.

Daphina cleans off her swords on her cloak, but keeps them out ready if more fighting starts. “Do you know where the Black Spider is?” She questions.

Duncan walks to the barkeep and says “Why have the town guards done nothing to deal with these thugs so far?” He then looks around the room and shrugs off some of the pain and adds “Find a rope. I will need mine before we leave.”

“Not that I know of,” grunts the thug. “I guess Black Spider or whatever could’ve enlisted more, but the only ones I know hang out up by the manor.”

”I don’t know much about the Black Spider. Only that he’s payin’ us enough to not as questions if ya’ know what I mean. At least that’s what Glasstaff said.”

After this he pretty much ignores Duncan’s question. “Now can I please get going! If you don’t kill me, Glasstaff surely will, and I need to get out of town quick. Please!” The thug pleads.

Vistra however does step in. “This town don’t really got a town guard. Y’see all the people livin’ here are frontier folk. The place ain’t big enough to have a major militia.” She explains. 

What would you like to do?