The suitors burst into uproar all throughout the house when they saw their leader down. They leapt from their seats, milling...
The suitors burst into uproar all throughout the house
when they saw their leader down. They leapt from their seats,
milling about, desperate, scanning the stone walls—
not a shield in sight, no rugged spear to seize.
They wheeled on Odysseus, lashing out in fury:
“Stranger, shooting at men will cost your life!”“Your game is over—you, you’ve shot your last!”
“You’ll never escape your own headlong death!”
“You killed the best in Ithaca—our fine prince!”
“Vultures will eat your corpse!”
This is all Bethesda NPC dialogue
Odysseus runs out of the house and jumps in the water to cancel aggro then walks straight back in and everyone ignores him again
the odyssey as an open world rpg makes a weird amount of sense. Since its mostly a series of disconnected sidequests which can be completed in any order, followed by a big climactic battle with little relation to them.
Plus the protagonist casually murders and robs people all the time and faces zero consequences