Re: With Kalima
"I find it's best to sacrifice one coin when asking for a miracle rather than 'lose' two later. Not that that is what happens, but coincidences, thievery, miscommunication, bad trades, seem to occur with a greater frequency when, eh... well you understand." [Private to GM: Lie? Does Hermes ask for coins, and if refused will come steal double later? I don't know, Benny probably doesn't either, but it sounds good. So, lie is "maybe".]
He fidgets dramatically for a moment.
"Depending on the wealth of the supplicant, I try to best figure the capacity to give. For instance, last night Hermes granted me the ability to cure a young child of disease and blindness and bless her mother's cooking oil, which was all that was on hand, to allow her to anoint the home against further vicissitudes of happenstance for so long as the oil lasts, if she choses. I requested she sacrifice twenty bits, five of which went to a blind beggar, ten bought radishes for a communal stew pot, three bought my breakfast this morn. And so I am once again scrounging for lost coins between the pavers of merchant's square for my supper."
He sighs. "Don't think that. The high priests and I have different priorities, they look to the wealth of the church, I prefer to work among the people, spreading gifts of trade and touches of divinity where I can." [Private to GM: He doesn't yet (unless you want it that way) have beef with the local church. He just knows how churches run, and that he really doesn't know much about how to be a clergymen. Better to be a Saint in the gutter than called a fraud in the high halls. So, trutheriness: Eh....]