Akien has hidden the larger piece of pipe up his sleeve. The other object is reasonably small and mostly obscured in his hand.

"Hi."

Lead bandit brandishes a crossbow at him. "Whatever you're holding, drop it and then put your hands on your head. Other two, hands on your heads."

Nick's hands go up, though he glares.

Evara slowly lifts her hands to her head, too.

"Won't even give me a chance?" asks Akien.

"Nope. Three. Two..."

He drops the larger piece of pipe. Keeps hold of the other metal.

"Not good enough." The pirate lunges forward with his blade.

And, surprisingly swiftly, gets hit over the head with a reasonably sharp blow from the metal bar Akien still holds.

There's a sudden flash of light, and Evara suddenly looks quite dangerous.

Two bandits brandish crossbows in her general direction. One has it pointed at Akien. "P- Put it out! Do you want to kill us all?"

"Sounds like you were trying that. So get the fuck away."

The flame continues to burn, about head height.

Akien holds down the pirate nearest him, the one he just took out.

"We were gonna let you all live, fuck! There's show of force and there's being reckless to the point of suicidal for god's sake put it out!"

The crossbow wielders are wavering.

"Put your toys down."

They drop them.

Nick collects them all-  though he looks awfully nervous about the fire too.

The fire goes out quickly, once it's clear they're in submission.

"Might've been a little too long," comments Akien.

"You may have forgotten, but I'm pretty practiced."

Nick fetches and applies rope. "...What do we do with our scoundrels now?"

Evara shrugs. "Can we get out of here, get on our way and leave them behind?"

"Yeah - I can just sabotage their ship in an easily fixable but time-consuming way."

"Sounds like it'd be the best route." Pause. "And maybe take some things, if there's anything particularly useful – teach them a lesson or whatever."

"… Or maybe not, if it's not actually necessary."

"Take their weapons, I think. And maybe you all should reflect on your high-risk lifestyles. But I don't want to be a pirate myself. Be right back."

Shrug.