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I guess it's all a matter of motive. Have they become bandits because the land recently became peaceful and they know no trade beyond war? It's a possibility.
We don't have a lot of strength, so a direct confrontation *may* not be wise, if they turn out to be particularly cutthroat.
We should perhaps focus on training our swordsmanship before we confront the group anyway, don't want a lucky spearthrust to put us out of commission.

We wouldn't be able to start much of a mining operation to begin with, everyone is busy with planting this years crops, i believe we should focus on the same, now is the time to do it.

Yeah, seems like roleplay-wise weirdsound has a lot on his plate, not to mention real life.

Congratulate our head carpenter and merchant on their fine work. We might want to think about giving them some nigh-meaningless titles that describe what they intend to do anyway. Like Overseer of Construction and Market-Master or some such, it might give them some feeling of importance.
I think we should work on training our militia further, maybe make some crude wooden spears if we can.

"You both have been too kind good sirs. A squire would be of great benefit, i want to be able to defend and protect those under my care, and my skills are sadly lacking, as you describe. There is potential on my land for mining, so a miner would also be most welcome. If you could indulge me further, what is it that this miner takes issue with? Perhaps he could be soothed."

While the Death Battle had some flaws i think in a lot of ways they had the right idea.
It's important to keep in mind that superman is pretty much *always* holding back, he doesn't ever behave as fast or strong as he really us because he could very easily accidentally kill almost any of his villains if he isn't extremely careful. This could be a pretty great disadvantage, and where a lot of the argument for why Goku might beat superman really boils down to.
That said, neither Goku or superman would up and kill eachother, it's just not something that would happen. Superman does not kill at all, and Goku only kills when it's absolutely nececcary. So the implied "death battle" means that to some extent their morals have to be ignored. Because otherwise it would be like all of the crossover marvel/dc fights that ever happened, which were boring, very boring. So Supes shouldn't really hold back in a hypothetical fight to the death (which would not happen to begin with).
Okay, so Superman is supposed to be fast, he might not be the most agile but he's fast enough for it to not matter. You know the Flash?That guy who's whole thing is being fast? Yeah superman and flash have had races, and... superman has beat him, (on another level this doesn't make sense though because both of them are fast enough to break the space time continuum with how fast they are.) So while superman has been hit by slow lumbering buffoons, it's only because superman holds back so much, and in the hypothetical death-fight he won't be holding back. So he's AT LEAST as fast as Goku, at least those are my thoughts.
I think it might also be noted that Goku has a finite supply of energy, he's only got so much to draw on, while with the presence of a sun superman has an effectively limitless supply of power. A lot of Goku's victories have been possible because while he's tired and drained, his opponents have been firing off a lot of juice too (at least that's what i think of it.)
Now i'm no superman lover, except for the superman of a particular few writers i've often found him bland. But superman is simply more powerful than Goku, it's only because he chooses not to use all his power that anyone ever has a chance against him. When he chooses to utilize all that strength he's unassailable, but also a danger to everyone around him. (Around being relative, easily encompassing the people of an entire planet.) 

It's way more funny when it's painted artwork.

I think setting up a watch is crucial, fortuitous as the encounter might have been it has proven that we don't have the ability to protect our town from any kind of attack.