question:  How had the brothers changed by the end of the story?
context: Zotul, youngest of the Masur brothers, stirred uneasily. Around the table sat the six brothers—Koltan, eldest and Director of the Pottery; Morvan, his vice-chief; Singula, their treasurer; Thendro, sales manager; Lubiosa, export chief; and last in the rank of age, Zotul, who was responsible for affairs of design. By this, he seemed to imply that the Thorabians would rob the Earthmen, which the Lorians would not. It was a common enough thing among the brothers Masur, as among everybody, to be frustrated in their desires. Speeches were made through interpreters, who had much too quickly learned the tongue of the aliens; hence these left much to be desired in the way of clarity, though their sincerity was evident. Finally, the Earthmen took off in their great, shining ship. In spite of the fact that a terrestrial ship had landed at every Zurian city of major and minor importance, and all in a single day, it took some time for the news to spread. In three years, more than a million had been made and sold by the Masurs alone, not counting the hundreds of thousands of copies turned out by competitors in every land. This, for some unknown reason and much to the disgust of the Lorians, was set up in Thorabia. The remainder of the brothers Masur, on the other hand, preferred to remain in ignorance. Within five years of the first landing of the Earthmen, every major city on the globe had a printing press, a daily newspaper, and enjoyed the instantaneous transmission of news via telegraph. They destroyed it, which proved how valueless it really was. Think of the telegraph and the newspaper, how these spread news of every shipment from Earth. In their dozenth conference since that first and fateful one, the brothers Masur decided upon drastic steps. For one, old Kalrab had passed on to his immortal rest, but this made no real difference. The drastic steps of the brothers applied, therefore, to making an energetic protest to the governor of Lor.
output:  they were so defeated they no longer beat him
options:  they cared more about Zotul  they were so defeated they no longer beat him  they decided to give him more responsibility in the company  they hated Zotul more than ever