Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24252521-20171123044845/@comment-27320292-20180329025438

Philosophernoct wrote: Thank you for trying to be objective.

And, As I said multiple times;

Trying to charmspeak Terminus was a silly act. It only leads to this; Terminus became much more furious and suspicious than before. And It didn't help to calm him, ever. Piper shouldn't have done this. And she didn't ever felt guilty about that. And Terminus was right, by the way. Sevens just went Rome with their huge flying ship like that, suspiciously. So, What they expect? Welcome seremony? And mentions; Charmspeaking is a mind control and off course Terminus wasn't pleased by that, when it was used on and against him. Well he is a god and it stands to reason charmspeak would be less effective on a god. And to be fair to Piper, she did not know he was a god because her attempt comes before Annabeth identifies him to the Seven on the ship. And there is no evidence of her knowing his identity beforehand. Terminus's yelling and hysteric exploding around the ship doesn't help. You're looking at this from the view of an omniscient reader, which Piper is not. She does not have all the information we do and acted with what she did know.

A. There's a yelling dude who's exploding himself all over the ship.

B. He doesn't seem very happy.

C. He's refusing to let us speak with the Romans, which we REALLY REALLY have to do and awkwardly hovering here probably isn't helping our case. We better get down there quickly before they shoot us out of the sky or something.

That's about the extent of what she knows. Sure, as READERS we know it's stupid to use charmspeak but to Piper it seems like the best solution with the knowledge she has. And as for the guilty stuff, the situation doesn't really escalate much. Terminus just scolds her briefly and continues what he was saying before: dOn'T LAND tHiS In MY CiTY!!! Her attempt doesn't really make the situation worse, so why should she feel guilty?

And I agree that trying to fly a giant obvious warship into New Rome is dumb, but that's on all of them, ESPECIALLY JASON who knows about Terminus and is aware he won't tolerate what's essentially a giant weapon within the city limits.