Tully’s Thugs are a brutal collection of street robbers, hired muscle, and tavern-brawling ruffians who control Portown’s western quarter through intimidation rather than secrecy. Led by the feared Tully, they extort protection money from innkeepers, laborers, and small shop owners while ambushing travelers along the western roads and shadowing adventurers believed to be carrying treasure. The Thugs favor clubs, knives, and weighted cudgels, preferring to leave victims bruised and frightened as a warning to others—though those who resist too fiercely sometimes disappear altogether. Their headquarters are rumored to lie beneath one of the quarter’s rougher drinking houses, connected to nearby cellars by cramped passages. Less subtle than the Golden Brotherhood and less elusive than the Bilge Rats, Tully’s Thugs survive because they are useful as enforcers, because frightened witnesses seldom speak, and because certain militia patrols always seem to be elsewhere when trouble begins.
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