Ma Lou continued:
"When Winterhold's investigation team is about to reach Fog Town!"
"We'll immediately have Phone Bro lead his Cultist lackeys straight into an encounter with them!"
"But here's the most important part! You have to deliberately let one or two of Winterhold's knights escape!"
"Let them see with their own eyes that a bunch of Cultists in red robes brutally murdered their teammates!"
"Then let them make it back to Winterhold and report the news to their superiors in person!"
Ma Lou posted a maniacal-laughter meme and delivered his final summary:
"By then, they'll have the old score of their fallen Winterhold knights, plus the fresh grudge of their investigation team being ambushed!"
"Put those two together, and it'll be undeniable proof that the Cultists have openly declared war on Winterhold!"
"Those arrogant knight orders of the Righteous Gods will never swallow that insult!"
"To defend its dignity, Winterhold will definitely send a real army to retaliate against the Black Forest Branch!"
"And our plan to pit the tiger against the wolf will be a complete success!"
"Heh heh heh!"
After Ma Lou sent that last message.
The previously lively group chat fell into another half-minute of dead silence.
Every player scrolling through the messages on their phone was stunned senseless by this utterly underhanded scheme.
In that brief silence, everyone could feel the appalling cunning and viciousness behind this chain of dirty tricks, even through their screens.
A full five seconds passed.
Then, as though someone had hit fast-forward, the group chat was instantly drowned in a flood of replies!
[I'm a Proud Noob]: "Holy shit... holy shit, holy shit, holy shit!!!"
[Fragile College Student]: "Mom asked why I was kneeling while looking at my phone! How the hell does a human brain come up with tactics