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>The civilisation gets +3387 Population.
>The civilisation gets +10 Productivity.
>The civilisation gets -5 Equality, Cohesion, Prosperity and Happiness.
>The civilisation gets -10 Security.
After some debate, the lesser leaders of the chiefdom decide to overrule Shacol's decision. Rather than go to war with all three of these other tribes, the Croglatovic will abandon the lands of the Tibuk – but only after taking all of their men and women as slaves, and taking all of their children so that they might be re-educated. The messengers from the Roguwek and Bladrek are told that the Croglatovic will have abandoned this land by next winter and they return to their tribes, satisfied.
Sure enough, the rest of the year is spent carting over three thousand river bugs to the Croglatol, where they will be taught the way of Sitrun or where they shall be used for the labour that they provide, depending on their age. Only the sickly and elderly are left behind, along with those who were fortunate enough to elude captivity when their warriors were routed and have hid ever since.
When the Roguwek discover this mass extraction of the Tibuk population, they are outraged. In their eyes, this is tantamount to going against the spirit of the agreement – absconding with all of the useful bodies that the river bugs have to offer is effectively the same as conquering the entire tribe, in the eyes. For this reason, the rock-eaters deny traders from the Croglatol access to their territory and use their influence over the Slawik to ensure that the chiefdom's merchants aren't welcome among the thin folk either.
Due to prior efforts to build up a strong relationship between the Croglatovic and the Bladrek, the wing-stitchers decide against shunning the chiefdom. They will allow merchants to continue to buy cowrie shells from them. However, it would seem that some of the defeated river bugs fled into their lands. Having accepted these Tibuk into the fold, they proceed to envelop and claim the emptied villages for themselves. The stretch of the Choslitol that once belonged to the river bugs is now Bladrek territory. The wing-stitchers now neighbour the chiefdom.
As for life at the Croglatol, the slave population almost triples. This leads to an explosion of productivity as these thralls toil away for the chiefdom, mining a prolific amount of copper ore and hauling it all around the great lake for refinement. However, this also leads to the first true slave revolts as mines full of river bugs turn on the overseers, slay them and run off into the foothills. The Vuvovic are inevitably called in to capture them and restore order, but they can't undo the damage that has been done.
Similarly, most of the older children tend to flee to live a Grovic lifestyle and cause trouble, rather than become a part of the chiefdom that stole them from their families.
