The Prologue is a cinematic and predefined scenario that takes place before Chapter 1 of Story Mode. The prologue is set in the 1960s, during the prosperity of Margaret Bellwether’s tenure as President of The Board, who makes the infamous remarks on the purpose of college, and how there is a need for an architect. The prologue will then skip to 1973, during an eulogy delivered by James Coltenbrooks at the funeral of Margaret Bellwether, who makes those similar remarks, but adds their own taste on it.

The prologue also establishes during that same eulogy statement that it was in Margaret’s best interest to have a group of people on the field, those deployed to assist with case files, which at the time of the prologue, didn’t yet exist. James felt that it was best to establish this branch during his tenure, so that constant floods of letters from students and colleges wouldn’t go unanswered for months from hearings from the Board of Trustees.

Bellwether’s Statement

“It is without the system, the structure, the stability; for generations we have endowed the possibility of assisting those students, those colleges, and is hereby to be heard by the board; regardless on big or small, no person shall go unheard. It is the right of students and of colleges to be represented at the board.”
— Margaret Bellwether (4 November 1968)

Coltenbrooks’ Statement

“For generations, our board has received countless letters, petitions, and demands to be heard. It is hereby that for once, we allow for those people to be heard; for too long, we have left these people unheard, and often we haven’t had them heard until years after the initial filing. It is why in the best interest that— Dr. Bellwether would all so admire, to create a new department here at Collegeria, so that for once, these people can be heard.”
— James Coltenbrooks (27 May 1973)

Coltenbrooks would eventually sign the 1973 Field Agents Act a day later, which established the field agents department as a permanent instrument, previously being a temporary solution in line with the 1901 Disputes Act.