Smart Gnoll... Surrounded!

Having now dealt with close to 10 of the gnolls from the small tribe. Reducing their number by almost a third, it finally dawned on the remaining gnolls that something was wrong.

Growwl-!

Because of this, instead of going out to search for the gnolls that had gone out to search for the pair of missing gnolls, the gnoll shaman took command of the situation and ensured that the rest of the gnolls remained inside the tribe and prepared for a possible attack.

Although it didn't have any idea what was attacking its tribe, it understood that it wasn't strong enough to take it on directly. If not, it would have already attacked the tribe and wouldn't have killed off the gnolls outside the tribe silently.

Huh? They didn't come out to investigate what happened?