The moment Batman finished speaking, everyone fell silent for a moment. Agent asked, "So the detail about Farainess's former villagers worshipping Dagon atop the lighthouse was something you added?"
"Yes, but I only established that they were conducting religious rituals related to strange incidents, gaining something and paying a price. I never specifically defined what it was, because I didn't know what gods existed in this world either."
"Chosen-one theory," Pride said. "You made this village a place that was inherently different."
"Yes, because I thought that was more logical." Batman nodded. "I knew I couldn't be the only Player. If everyone had to write their own backstory, not everyone would make themselves locals. There had to be a reason so many outsiders had gathered here."
"Even if all of you gave yourselves all kinds of motivations, in a plot leaning toward the bizarre, fatalism and chosen-one theory were still more reasonable."
"It wasn't that you had all coincidentally gathered here. It was that this place itself was extraordinary, and that was what drew you here."
"Look at him," Beyonder said. "Only Batman considered the overall logic of the plot. All of you just wanted to make trouble for me!"
"Wait." Agent suddenly realized something. "So Dagon contacting you out of nowhere wasn't a coincidence, nor was it caused by the Psychoanalytic Method. It was part of your original setup."
Everyone else looked at Batman.
Batman nodded. "That's right. Since I didn't know much about the gods in this game world, but didn't want to pass up that resource, I set it up so that I helped Dougert investigate the truth behind strange incidents and, through that, came into contact with some bizarre knowledge."
"That's right," Beyonder said. "Batman never specified exactly what that knowledge was, but my setup was