Resources.
Renee Kane found it hard not to think along those lines.
Was it possible… that the pillars of light funneling energy into Raloa Island were drawing their power from the players themselves?
The fear and anger players felt during perilous instances, or the malice and greed born from their infighting—all of it could be converted into the purest form of energy.
That must have been why Big Eyes had targeted Renee Kane in the first place.
Perhaps to these so-called Gods, the players were nothing more than a resource to be taken at will.
The overly "happy" residents of Raloa Island, in particular, seemed like hollow shells, stripped of all intense emotions upon reflection.
Renee Kane had once speculated that the Gods might have been former players, but now it seemed that the "creatures" from the Explorer's Journal, including Big Eyes, were more like monsters latched onto the players, continuously sucking them dry.
The Doomsday Train game was their personal sheep pen.
