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>The Protavic win against the Toprocravic by a difference of 7 – they achieve a Costly Victory.
>The civilisation gets -12 Population and Military Reserves.
>The civilisation gets -20 Military Reserves until the end of the Special Situation.
Glochil of the Chupac is a young man that no one ever thought highly of. His branch of the family have never been particularly wealthy or influential – they don't own any beasts or beehives, so they survive by catching fish. Every morning, he ventures down to the lakeside at the crack of dawn and spends the day casting his line into the water, in the hopes that he will catch enough fish to keep himself and his siblings from going hungry.
Except on this morning, he saw those distant shapes floating on the Croglatol and knew that something was wrong. He raced back to his village and warned them of the impending raid long before the sealskins landed. By the time they arrived at the shoreline, over a hundred beast-bringers were waiting for them, armed and ready to defend their homes from the marauders. The Toprocravic were not prepared for such an organised defence.
By the time that the sealskins flee back into their canoes, over thirty of them lie dead on the shore of our tribe's territory and almost twenty of them are wounded. A similar number of the Protavic people are injured, but only ten of them were killed in battle. These beast-bringers fought with the strength of the blood-drinkers and indeed, many of them follow the traditions of the Vuvovic, even though they do not belong to the warrior caste. They draw the still-warm blood from the bodies of the dead so that they may drink it, while those who are wounded are taken captive so that they may be ritually slaughtered.
When reports of this raid reach the force assembled by the border, the Vuvovic soldiers are equal parts impressed and incensed. They admire the strength of these beast-bringers, yet at the same time they insist that the blood of our tribe's enemies belong to them and them alone. They wish for these captives to be brought to them so that they may perform the ritual sacrifice and gorge themselves on their blood instead.
