Don’t think for a moment that the cabal hasn’t been watching the Q board and trying to use the information to their advantage. It’s like playing chess, they can see the board and see possible moves but they don’t know how the white chess player is going to use each piece or when or even if. They’re guessing at this point because they haven’t had a real match in quite some time. They’re rusty at the game because they’ve been squashing their opponents as those small groups or individuals sprung up, either by arkancide or by coercion. This is new to them because they’ve never had to play the game this long. So they’ll try to use any advantage they can find including reading the drops. They’ve run out of moves that will checkmate the king and so they resort to what they know best, kill the king, kill the movement.