Let My Patients Go

Let My Patients Go was a virtual representation of one of Kassandra's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.

Description

To appease Hippokrates, Kassandra agreed to find the slaver's camp and save his victims.

Dialogue

Some time later, Kassandra returned to check on Galeos, the man she rescued.

• Kassandra: How's the patient?
• Hippokrates: He'll survive if I treat his injuries.
• Kassandra: If?
• Hippokrates: This man is a monster. He's a slave trader who treats people so terribly that they injure themselves just to avoid working for him.

Hippokrates grunted.

• Hippokrates: If I help him, he'll continue to hurt others. But if I choose to do nothing, many will be spared pain and suffering.

Save him and we'll get paid.Save him because it's right.

• Kassandra: This man is a rich slaver. If we save him, he'll reward us both. Think of the people you could help with that drachmae.
• Hippokrates: No amount of money can undo the damage he's inflicted upon innocent people. Men like him think they can pay their way out of every situation, even death. He's wrong. No one can escape the Ferryman forever.

• Kassandra: It shouldn't matter what this man has done, he deserves to be treated like anyone else. We can't judge others when they're at our mercy.
• Hippokrates: I know it's my duty to help this man, but if you'd seen some of the injuries I've treated that he's caused, you would understand my doubts. The innocents of the Greek world have suffered enough lately.

• Kassandra: What if I free his slaves? If he has no slaves, he can't mistreat them anymore, and you'll be able to treat him without guilt.
• Hippokrates: Yes, I can save this man, and you can prevent him from hurting others. Our kindness here will show the error of his ways—show him a different path to walk. You would do this for me?

Accept – I'll free the slaves.Leave – Maybe another time.

• Kassandra: Of course I'll free the slaves for you.
• Hippokrates: Thank you, my friend.

• Kassandra: Those slaves' freedom is their own to fight for.

Kassandra returned.

• Hippokrates: If you free the slaves, I can heal this monster.

(Back to dialogue choice one.)

Kassandra agreeing to free Galeos' slaves

(If players asked "Where are the slaves?")

• Kassandra: Where are the slaves being held?
• Hippokrates: I remember paying a visit to a camp on the river bank east of Lake Kopais to treat a slave for self-inflicted injuries. I'd try there.

(If players asked "Why was the hunting party attacked?")

• Kassandra: Are hunting parties often attacked this close to the city?
• Hippokrates: It's quite unusual, but with the war raging all around us, and the plague consuming everything else, it's no surprise the beasts are becoming more desperate.

(Leave – "I'll free the slaves.")

• Kassandra: If the slaves are in danger, I'll need to hurry.

Kassandra left the city and rode north along the stream towards the entrance of Melanippos' Camp. With the help of Ikaros, she spotted two slaves in cages and the bandit guards.

• Kassandra: I see him.

Off to the right of the slaves, up along the cliffside, Ikaros spotted the slave leader, also encaged.

• Kassandra: I need to talk to her.

Kassandra infiltrated the camp and killed any bandits between her and the slaves. She released the two from their cages and climbed to the end of the camp to free the leader. She carried her off to safety along the cliffs above the river, then onto a wooden platform north of the camp—below, the river debouched into the Aegean Sea. After Kassandra set her down, the slave leader stood up to thank her.

• Slave: Thank you for freeing us. That beast Galeos has worked all of us to the brink of death. Now I can return home to my family.

With the slaves freed, Kassandra returned to Hippokrates' clinic.

• Kassandra: I've freed the slaves.
• Hippokrates: I've treated his injuries enough to stabilize him, but he isn't out of danger yet...

They both looked down at Galeos for a moment.

• Hippokrates: I don't know if I can bring myself to complete the treatment.

You can't just let him die.He won't hurt anyone else.

Kassandra leaned close and pointed at him while she replied.

• Kassandra: So you're just going to stand here and watch this man die? You need to do what you do best, and heal him. It's what the gods put you here to do—help people, not judge them.

• Kassandra: I've freed his slaves, and his business is finished. Perhaps our kindness will show him there is another path.

Regardless, Hippokrates pondered for a moment, then agreed to finish the treatment.

Hippokrates convinced to save Galeos' life

• Hippokrates: If I do nothing, I'll be no better than him. I'll make sure he recovers.
• Kassandra: When he does, be sure to tell him how his life was in our hands.
• Hippokrates: Only the gods have the power to decide life and death. What I do is insignificant compared to their benevolence.
• Kassandra: I've seen you save many from a trip down the Styx.
• Hippokrates: But look at the plague—for all my knowledge and experience, I could do nothing against it. I have to accept that my reach only goes so far. Thank you for your help, my friend.
• Hippokrates: I must go, I have an appointment with a patient elsewhere.

Outcome

Kassandra resolved Hippokrates' dilemma in treating the brutal slaver Galeos by freeing his slaves and shutting down his operation.

Trivia

• Galeos can be knocked out and recruited afterwards. In this way, his life will truly be in Kassandra's hands.
  • He can also be killed. Possibly in front of Hippokrates if the player is quick enough. However Hippokrates will not comment on this.
• The dilemma presented in this quest may have been before Hippokrates made the Hippocratic Oath.
• The freed slave woman can later be found standing around near the battleground of Lokris.
• The title and the quest itself might be a reference to the song "Let my people go"/"Go down Moses" about Moses who freed his people, the Isrealites, from the old Pharaoh of Egypt, and afterwards let them through the desert to escape their oppressors.

Gallery

• 
  Hippokrates and Kassandra dicussing the patient
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  Hippokrates hesitates to treat Galeos.
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  Melanippos' Camp
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  The slave leader thanked Kassandra after freeing her and carrying her away to safety
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  Kassandra returing to Hippokrates

References

• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey