Post by TrinexxSlayer in The old man and chapter 18 stuff

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1- olympus might not exist anymore, with the lack of worshippers it just couldn't keep functionig as a home for the gods.

2- why would hermes even bother to do that? seems like too elaborate a scheme to pretend to be someone else when PC wouldn't have anyway of knowing anything by that point.

3- it really wasn't that fast, the gods have been degrading for a long time, hermes is just starting to show more severe symptoms, but he was certainly much weaker than in his prime when the story begins. don't let his composure fool you.

Craft2 years ago (3 edits)

1. True. But I still find it hard to connect the old man's words and Zeus' personality.

2. Because he can. Maybe he just wanted a smoke, and traveled the most common way for him. :)

3. I described it to my answer to MechaRhino above. In short, when he gave you the phone to enter your phone number for him to find another traveller for the hotel, he was kind, sharp and on your side. He was even avuncular with you and Asterion about having a possible bond of more than partnership and/or friendship. Next he's showing up in the hotel during the opening night, planning something sinister against Asterion himself (according to Argos' words), and later trying to kill Argos in cold blood. I wouldn't say that this is a slow change in character, going senile gradually.

Yet again, I can be wrong, I'm more than sure that I'm wrong, I just trying to provide another viewpoint, given the clues I see. :)

edit: The one thing I'm sure of, is that Hermes' changes in personality is not a natural (for gods) things.

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