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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagoby" data-source="post: 7421639" data-attributes="member: 6927785">After searching the bandits, and once their hearing returns to normal, Emudre says to her comrades (out of earshot from the bandits), "Let's take these bandits back to Oleg's for questioning.  Our charter says" (and she pulls the charter from her backpack) "that the penalty for unrepentant banditry is execution.  Tomorrow we should determine whether those bandits wish to begin making on honest living for themselves, and perhaps become our allies, under probation of course at first, until they can prove themselves truly repentant.  I think we would do best to treat them firmly, although not with excessive harshness, until we understand their characters and intentions.  They are strong and hardy folks and should they turn from their ways they will strengthen our ability to protect these dangerous regions from other enemies.  Of course, should they pretend to repent and the  go back to banditry, it will be our duty to hunt them down and bring them to final justice." </blockquote>