Episode 1.b
>The Caucasus, mythic time, present<
Quintus leads you along the side of the mountain to a wide ledge that juts out over the drop. There he stops, and for a moment he doesn't say anything at all.
Then you see the chains. They are enormous, each link as thick as a person, made of a metal darker than iron, and they still hang from a great bolt driven deep into the rock. But they are broken. The ends are clean, with no rust and no scrape marks, as if the links simply let go on their own.
Quintus crouches, picks up a broken piece of chain, and turns it over in his hands.
"His name is Prometheus," he says. "He's a Titan, one of the old ones. He did something the gods could not forgive, and they chained him to this rock for it. His punishment was never supposed to end." He sets the piece of chain down carefully. "And now he's gone."
He stands and looks out over the edge. Far below, so far down that you can barely see it, a thin thread of warm light runs along a crack in the stone, low and steady.
"The TSTT is coming apart," Quintus says. "The whole world this machine holds together is starting to unravel, all the way down to its roots, and Prometheus is the reason. That's all I know for certain." He glances back at you. "So before we follow that light anywhere, we need to find out more about him. Both of us, honestly. I'd like to know who I'm chasing."
Prompt: What do you want to know about Prometheus before you follow the light? Ask Quintus. He will tell you what he can, and he will show you where to find the answers he doesn't have.
