Katherine
"We need to know quite a bit more than we do to decide what to do with you two. I take surrenders seriously and I can assure you that you will not be killed or seriosuly harmed if you keep faith with us, regardless of the answers to our questions. The only fear you should have is in dishonestly with us, and I can assure you that we will know if you are lying."
The pair nod. "Aye, we'll tell ye what we can." One of them says.
These two personally. Thier names, homes, reasons for going to sea.
"I be Yolani." One of them says, a half-elf. "An' I be Colk." The other says, a human.
"I be from Rivenblight." Yolani says. "Nasty place, that, an' when th' opportunity ta get out ta sea came, I took it. It be a fair sight better'n Rivenblight."
"I be from a small town outta Orussus." Colk says. "I started as a hand on a merchant ship, but she came under attack, an' since then I've served as a pirate hand."
How they came to serve on that pirate vessel.
"This ship - th'
Venom Fang - I been servin' on her since th' start." Yolani says. "Worked my way up ta first mate, when we threw th' cap'n overboard fer tryin' ta take 'is unfair share."
"I first served on th'
Redskull, but I came onta th'
Venom Fang after a little fracas with 'er." Colk says.
How the vessel came to its current condition and what if anything happened to her captain.
"Well, as I be sayin' afore, we threw th' good cap'n overboard when he took 'is unfair share a th' haul from a raid." Yolani says. "Our crew ain't too good in th' housekeepin', so it's fallen a little in quality... but she's still sailin', so we don't mind."
Colk simply nods in agreement.
The origen of the strange weapons they used, and anything else they know about them.
"'bout them... y'see, our good cap'n was th' one who got us those, an' we dunno where he gets 'em." Yolani says, shrugging. "We stop in fog a ways out ta sea from Orussus, an' a small ship comes out, and that night he hands 'em out. We dunno much 'bout how they work, but we were shown 'ow, an' they work well enough."
"Some say they're brought ta th' world by demons an' devils from th' abyss." Colk says. "Others say that only Pietro --"
"Don't say that name!" Yolani hisses.
Colk pauses. "Some say that only th' demon a th' seas can make 'em, an' he does so at his fortress in the middle of th' sea, 'bove a waterfall that falls ta th' river Styx."
The weapons and tactics used by other pirates who might sail these waters.
"Not much discussion goes on 'bout that." Yolani says. "Each a th' ships keeps ta isself, an' each uses it's own ways."
Specific ship names and pirate captains.
"Sorry, miss, we can't help ye." Yolani says.
The relations between different pirates if any.
"There's a certain... camaraderie," Yolani says, "that exists between we pirates. We won't attack each other, unless one aggravates th' other. We won't share treasure, unless there be a debt ta pay. Beyond that, it's every man fer isself."
The identity of any "middlemen" used by their ship in local ports to sell stolen goods or ransom valuable property or persons.
Yolani shrugs. "Can't say. We don't take prisoners, miss, an' I dunno of any ship that does. As fer stolen goods... they say that those're taken by th' cap'ns ta th' place where th' demon a th' seas lies."
Obviously she will be trying to get a feel for these two men as individuals as well as the truth of their individual statements...
OoC: So far as you can tell, the men are telling the truth.