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>The Protavic and their allies win against the Glachovic by a difference of 6 – they achieve a Costly Victory.
>The civilisation gets -21 Population and Fighting Population.
>The civilisation gets -39 Fighting Population until the end of the Special Situation.
As expected, the battle is a bloody one. For every one of the Glachovic that falls, he brings one of the invaders down with him. The brawling goes on for well over an hour as many of the hunters opt to fight to the death rather than surrender their home. They only give up the fight when over eighty of them lie battered and broken on the ground but even then, they would rather flee than surrender like the Bruslavic did. The hunters scatter and make their way south and east, towards the winding river that leads down from the Sharoc.
Sixteen of the Protavic have fallen this day, and almost forty lie wounded. Roughly twenty of the Vuvovic are too injured to carry on fighting, while eleven of them lie dead. As always, there are a few warriors who are unaccounted for, who must have ran off into the wilderness during the fighting. Perhaps they believed that they had a better chance of surviving in the forest than in battle against the Glachovic, over twenty of whom are wounded and sixty of whom are dead.
Drovul Bal and the blood-drinkers seem satisfied with this victory. Rather than give chase, they seem more than happy to glut themselves on the blood of the wounded and the dead. In a show of solidarity that shocks some of the Protavic, Grislal of the Topac joins them in their gruesome ritual. The stern old warrior draws the syrupy brown blood from a hunter's carcass and heats it over a fire before he drinks it, in a manner that earns much cheering from the Vuvovic.
Once he has gotten their attention, Grislal suggests that the surviving Glachovic hunters should be brought down before they are able to cross the river. By his estimate, there might be as many as a hundred and fifty of them left – enough that they would be able to cause a lot of trouble if they joined the Grovic. Worse still, they might join another tribe and cause it to become predisposed against the Protavic. With a little over two hundred able-bodied warriors left, he believes that the beast-bringers and blood-drinkers might be able to take them on, but only if they fight them together.
Our tribe could <span class="mu-s">give chase and hunt down the Glachovic</span>. They can't be allowed to cause any more trouble. More lives may be lost, but it will mean less hassle the Protavic in the future.
Our tribe could <span class="mu-s">allow the Glachovic to flee across the river</span>. They will live to fight another day, either as Grovic brigands or as the warriors of another tribe, but too many of the Protavic have died already. Stopping them wouldn't be worth it.
>Give chase and hunt down the Glachovic.
>Allow the Glachovic to flee across the river.
