Maybe they prospered and maybe they fought through more wars (like the American Revolution we mentioned before) and maybe Ingnook and his people learned over time to roll with the punches and how a little piece of land isn't worth losing your life over if life here is all that there is.
And maybe it'll take several more generations (and a whole lot more lexias) to tell a linear story that still allows the choice via hypertext to give it that extra oomph that the reader alone can bring to a story.
And maybe, well never mind, because . . .