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>The Protavic and their allies win against the Bruslavic and their allies by a difference of 16 – they achieve a Close Victory.
>The civilisation gets -12 Population and Fighting Population.
>The civilisation gets -21 Fighting Population until the end of the Special Situation.
The Bruslavic fight like cornered rats, with unusual savagery for such a peaceful tribe. As for the Glachovic, their spears and arrows are responsible for the majority of our tribe's losses. Fortunately, the combined force of the blood-drinkers and the beast-bringers give as good as they get – and the enemy have far less warriors to spare. The tide turns when the hunters, down a third of their men, flee from the battlefield. The remaining Bruslavic are battered into submission and soon surrender.
After the battle, nine of the Protavic are found dead, while twenty-one of them are wounded. The Vuvovic have lost eight warriors and have seventeen suffer from grievous injuries. Though only nine of the singers died in battle, over thirty of them are severely wounded, while the Glachovic have lost seven huntsmen and have left seven of their wounded behind. Anyone not accounted for is assumed to have deserted, to have fled into the forest to join the Grovic or be eaten by bears.
With the battle out of the way and the Bruslavic defeated, the leaders of the blood-singers seek an audience with the heads of the Protavic families. The one who speaks for them is Drovul Bal, a gnarled old warrior covered with both battle scars and ritual scarification. Regarding the proposal of the blood-singers joining our tribe, he says that they are still considering it – that the beast-bringers will need to prove that they deserve the might of the Vuvovic.
To begin with, Drovul Bal wants to execute all of the remaining Bruslavic warriors – over a hundred in total – so that the Vuvovic may drink their blood and their strength. Pradrol is eager to agree to this, but some of the other leaders aren't so certain. Dopran of the Ropac, a keen-eyed woman famed for her skill as an archer and a player of blocrum, suggests conscripting them instead. After all, a hundred more soldiers would come in useful against the Glachovic.
Our tribe could <span class="mu-s">allow the execution of the singers</span>. Over a hundred warriors would be consigned to death for the sake of this grisly ritual.
Our tribe could <span class="mu-s">let them kill the men but spare the women</span>. Roughly half of the Bruslavic warriors are female – slaying them would be a godless act.
Our tribe could <span class="mu-s">spare them all but do not let them fight</span>. It would be wrong to kill them all, but it's too soon for trust any of them as fighters.
Our tribe could <span class="mu-s">conscript them and make them fight</span>. With almost twenty dead and almost forty out of action, the allied forces could do with a boost.
>Allow the execution of the singers.
>Let them kill the men but spare the women.
>Spare them all but do not let them fight.
>Conscript them and make them fight.
