A few minutes later
Ah ah! Serves you right!
But uh, why you have so much rope with you?
To tie up groups of bandits
We must bring them to the nearest town to trial them.
Oh no! we won't turn around for these idiots!
I am willing to go before a judge.
I will explain how us, honest travelers, have been savagely attacked by barbarians in the forest. We were brutalized. And I have witnesses
Well, let's just beat them up and take their valuables.
Yes, it's for the best.