All Bonds Will Break

**All Bonds Will Break** was a virtual representation of one of Alexios's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.

## Description

Diona sent Alexios to help the harbormaster with his tasks. He was an unpleasant man by the reports of many, but he had his uses.

## Dialogue

Alexios made his way to Skandeia Bay and spoke to Glaukos, the acerbic harbormaster and associate of Diona.

* **Kassandra:** *I take it you're the harbor master.*
* **Glaukos:** *I told you, I'll pay when I get paid!*
* **Kassandra:** *Diona sent me. She said you needed help.*
* **Glaukos:** *Diona? Wait, wait, wait. Who are you?*
* **Kassandra:** *I'm just helping her out. She has some information I want.*
* **Glaukos:** *Liar! I bet you want her more than you want information, don't you?!*
* **Kassandra:** *Just tell me what needs to be done.*
* **Glaukos:** *You think you can do better than I have?*
* **Kassandra:** *As a matter of fact, I do.*
* **Glaukos:** *Fine! You want to prove yourself to Diona, right? The military has been a real pain in the ass lately.*
* **Glaukos:** *They've captured some mercenaries who are of interest to her at the fortified warehouse. She needs you to free them.*
* **Kassandra:** *I'll see to it, but it's going to cost you.*
* **Glaukos:** *Ha! If you make it back alive, I"ll fatten your pockets with drachmae myself.*
* **Kassandra:** *Deal. But first, I have some questions.*

(If players asked "Why free the prisoner?")

* **Kassandra:** *Freeing prisoners sounds treasonous. Why would she want to do that?*
* **Glaukos:** *In her paranoia, the High Priestess has ordered anyone suspicious to be detained. But these prisoners were mercenaries minding their own business.*
* **Kassandra:** *A mercenary's business is rarely their own.*
* **Glaukos:** *Still, Diona wants them to help fight against her enemies.*
* **Kassandra:** *And let me guess, the only ones she can trust are those who can be bought with drachmae.*
* **Glaukos:** *Exactly. Of course, she trusts me too.*

(If players asked "Who's Diona to you?")

* **Kassandra:** *Is Diona someone special to you?*
* **Glaukos:** *I-I'm her lover! And I'll be the one to help her get rid of her enemies! I promised that in exchange for -*
* **Glaukos:** *Why am I tell you any of this?!*
* **Glaukos:** *I don't care what you think your relationship with her is, she's just using you. I'm her true love!*
* **Kassandra:** *Right. You keep telling yourself that.*

(If already freed - "Describe the men to me.")
* **Kassandra:** *Describe these mercenaries to me.*
* **Glaukos:** *They're all massive brutes. The kind you approach when you want things done.*
* **Kassandra:** *Sounds familiar. I saved some earlier. As brutish as they come, and not a hair on their heads.*

(Dialogue continues below at "There were three of them...")
(Leave - "That's enough")

* **Kassandra:** *I've got enough to go on. You better get my drachmae ready.*
* **Glaukos:** *Come back when you're done. If you make it out of the camp alive.*

Kassandra scanned the Customs Warehouse for the three men with the help of Ikaros. She found one in the warehouse itself;

* **Kassandra:** *Found him!*

one in the corner by the sea;

* **Kassandra:** *He's over there.*

and the final one in the cages near the tents in the middle.

* **Kassandra:** *There he is!*

She snuck in through a hole on the southwest corner obscured by the bushes. She made her way to the prisoner near the sea.

* **Greek Brute:** *I won't die here,*misthios.*Let me out!*

She released him and made her way to the second, in the cages in the middle.

* **Greek Brute:** *Get me out of here. Quick, before the guards return!*

She released him as well and made her way to the prisoner in the warehouse itself.

* **Greek Brute:** *They'll execute me! I did nothing wrong!*

She freed the final mercenary.

Having freed all of the mercenaries, Kassandra made her way back out of the Customs Warehouse and returned to Glaukos.

* **Kassandra:** *I've freed the prisoners at the military camp.*
* **Glaukos:** *There were three of them, did you get them all?*
* **Kassandra:** *Yes, three of them in all their balding glory.*
* **Glaukos:** *Guess you're more useful than you look. In that case, Diona needs one more task fulfilled.*
* **Glaukos:** *A man needs to die.*

(If players chose "Tell me more.")

* **Kassandra:** *I'm listening.*
* **Glaukos:** *Diona's enemies have forces on Chytra Atoll. They're going to use it as a staging area to launch attacks on Kythera.*
* **Glaukos:** *You need to exterminate these pests.*

(If the player chooses "That sounds difficult.")

* **Kassandra:** *You want me to go along to an island swarming with enemies?*
* **Glaukos:** *Oh, is that too hard a task for Diona's new champion?*
* **Kassandra:** *Tread lightly.*

(if the player chooses "Too easy.")

* **Kassandra:** *I will wipe the enemy off the face of that island.*
* **Glaukos:** *Your humility is moving,*misthios*. But I wouldn't underestimate them.*
* **Kassandra:** *No, it's*you*who underestimates*me.

* **Glaukos:** *Enough pointless chatter!*
* **Glaukos:** *She needs you to take out the captain there. His men should disperse after that. But, still, leave none alive. Will you do it?*

(If already killed)
* **Kassandra:** *The captain? I stayed a very... flamboyantly dressed man earlier by a shipwreck.*
* **Glaukos:** *That sounds like him. All that peacocking, no doubt to catch Diona's eye.*
* **Glaukos:** *Here, take your payment and go. I have no need for you anymore.*
* **Kassandra:** *Hold on. You've been fighting for Diona against the Cult. Tell me everything you know about them.*

(Dialogue continues at "What Cult?")
(Accept - "I'll handle it.")

* **Kassandra:** *Consider it done. What more can you tell me?*
* **Glaukos:** *What more could you possibly need? Just kill the man.*

(If players asked "Where is the captain hiding?")

* **Kassandra:** *Any idea where I can find the captain?*
* **Glaukos:** *That rat should be somewhere around the shipwreck off the north coast of Chytra Atoll.*
* **Glaukos:** *I led a small party that managed to maroon his ship, but we couldn't finish the job. He and his men will be on guard.*

(If players asked "How do I get to Chytra Atoll?")

* **Kassandra:** *What is the quickest way to Chytra Atoll?*
* **Glaukos:** *Sail south from the southern tip of Kythera until you come across a shipwreck.*

(If players chose "Tell me about the Cult.")

* **Kassandra:** *Tell me what you know about the Cult.*
* **Glaukos:** *What Cult?*
* **Kassandra:** *Isn't the captain a Cultist?*
* **Glaukos:** *He could be a*malákas*god for all I care. Diona says he wants to destroy her for rejecting him.*
* **Glaukos:** *That the only way for us to be together is if I remove him from the picture.*
* **Glaukos:** *Aren't you here for the same reason? To win her over?*

(If player chooses "Of course.")

* **Kassandra:** *She's already mine. And after I slay the captain, which*you*failed to do, you'll be forgotten.*
* **Glaukos:** *You couldn't have done it without my help! Diona will appreciate all I've done for her!*
* **Glaukos:** *She can't just -*
* **Glaukos:** *J-Just forget about me.*
* **Kassandra:** *I'll be sure she does.*

(If player chooses "No, I'm here for the Cult.")

* **Kassandra:** *I'm here to dismantle the Cult of Kosmos. I have no time or interest in the Priestess.*
* **Glaukos:** *You can't fool me with your "Cult" bullshit. No one can resist Diona's charm.*
* **Glaukos:** *And no one would ever call themselves that.*Malákas *"*Cult of Kosmos.*"*
* **Kassandra:** *Whatever.*

(Leave - That's enough.)

* **Kassandra:** *That's all I need to know.*
* **Glaukos:** *We'll send a fat amount of drachmae to your ship when you're done.*
* **Kassandra:** *Excellent.*

Regardless, Glaukos petulantly shooed Kassandra away.

* **Glaukos:** *Go! Get out of here! And don't you go talking to Diona anymore!*
* **Kassandra:** *Or what?*
* **Glaukos:** *Or I'll - Ugh, just go!*

(Atoll Order completion quote)

* **Kassandra:** *These don't look like Cult members. Probably just well-paid mercenaries.*

## Outcome

Alexios freed the mercenaries that Eritha had locked up, bolstering Diona's forces. He then sailed south to eliminate a captain who, at least according to Glaukos, Diona also needed dead.