The Orpheus Protocol

In the back yard of an old, ramshackle house, atop a hill, in the small town of Chester, Illinois, a group of uneasy allies and truce-inclined enemies stand around the edge of a brackish, ill-kept reflecting pool. And the time has come for them to depart and strive to save the world from butchery beyond imagining. Music Credits: Josh Woodward - Fight the Sea (Instrumental Version) Three Chain Link...

As the Labyrinth itself unravels into cosmic chaos, the cell must make a desperate bid to escape. Later, uncomfortable reunions with person, place, and construct lead to the first solid lead concerning the machinations of Darren Feldman and Nadra Al-Hashem. Music Credits: Kevin MacLeod - Darkest Child Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kevin MacLeod - Ossuary 6 - Air Kai Engel - Maree Naoya Sakamata -...

With the Blessing of Tammuz upon both Pierce and Marcus, an unexpected reunion threatens the entire mission. All eyes are on Vermilion as the moment of truth arrives for the cell, the cult, and perhaps the Tammuz divinity itself. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Parasite Eve - Out of Phase (SNES Remix) Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Myuu - Spook Box braids - 01 - 02 Free Dramatic Scores - Feel t...

Confronted with a temple which cannot rightly exist, the cell and its allies must determine how to navigate it and secure the blessing of Tammuz. But even if this challenge can be met, how are Pierce and Marcus to proceed without having to kill one another? Music Credits: ED SPITZER TECLADISTA - Milky Way Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kevin MacLeod - Temple of the Manes ErikMMusic - Dust and Shad...

Vermilion welcomes Pierce Keswick, aspirant to the mantle of Tammuz. Within, horror and depravity await. The cell must navigate the deadly and harrowing landscape of Vermilion, but the mere observance of decorum within threatens to contaminate their souls. Music Credits: Kevin MacLeod - Lightless Dawn Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kevin MacLeod - Shadowlands 3 - Machine ED SPITZER TECLADISTA - Mi...

Mitch, Kiera, Ashleigh, and Marcus reunite with Pierce, and the two cells go about the uneasy process of determining how much they can trust one another. With the culling ceremony complete, the time draws near to journey from Sighisoara to Snagov, and to face the true darkness of Vermilion. Music Credits: Kai Engel - Tumult Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Sergey Cheremisinov - Sea and Night City-Hu...

With Pierce mysteriously vanished, Kiera and Mitch must contend with the Red Game, but hope to make contact with Marcus to secure a numbers advantage. Meanwhile, Pierce comes face-to-face with Muninn, who's come bearing disturbing revelations. Music Credits: Alexander Nakarada - Foam Rubber Three Chain Links - Magic Hour whiteydoesdubstep - Bass and Violin - A Perfect Pair (Dubstep) extreme bass r...

Kiera reels from the awful discovery she made within Chobi's thoughts, and the cell is embroiled in Vermilion's barbaric opening ceremonies. But simple bloodletting is far from their only worry, as the supernatural presence that hangs heavy over Sighișoara takes sudden action. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kevin MacLeod - Satiate Alexander Nakarada - Foam Rubber Myuu - Crime Scene...

With Vermilion's location, time, and trajectory in hand, the ORPHEUS cell makes its way to Romania to attempt their mission to disrupt the cult of Tammuz. Once there, they must contend with local corruption, the disturbing implications of the invitation itself, and an unclean presence hovering just out of sight... Music Credits: Sergey Cheremisinov - Old Ally Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kevin M...

Freya and Rhett attempt to draw the defensive response away from Sampson and Jack, while the old friends cope with the ultimate obscenity whose cultivation is the true purpose of the facility. Impossible beings and impossible choices collide, as the Sabotage Arc ends. Music Credits: Darren Curtis - The Cold Settles Three Chain Links - Magic Hour bXmMusic - Boggles My Mind Heliline Kelluke - Their...

As Freya and Rhett try to process their realization of the facility's hidden purpose, Sampson and Jack search out their own horrific discoveries below. Amidst the swift and deadly security response to the Maenad infiltration, faith and sanity are tested by the stark evil taken root on this lonely platform. Music Credits: txtVapor - Cyber Heaven Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Heliline Kelluke - The...

Off the coast of Mexico, an oil platform looms in the dark, producing a product far more corruptive than that for which it was designed. Freya, Rhett, Sampson, and Jack begin their high-risk infiltration and sabotage operation, to secure the Invitation that Walter has promised them upon completion of their mission. The story of that hard-won intelligence begins with a phone call, a helicopter... a...

The cell's battle against the water treatment facility's high-tech security forces continues, and a fragment of a broadly distributed conspiracy is revealed. Furthermore, with the information gleaned from both sides of the joint venture between the cell and the remaining agents of the Maenad Directive, the next step becomes clear. Music Credits: Peter Rudenko - Unawaken Three Chain Links - Magic H...

The cell makes preparations for their upcoming operation, to be coordinated with the movements of the remaining Maenad Directive cell South of the border. During this time they must also bid farewell to Neveah, who sorely needs to go home and back to her normal life. The mission takes the cell to a strange facility whose true purpose is as yet unknown... Music Credits: Myuu - Stronger Together Thr...

The cell makes long-awaited contact with Cassandra, who informs them of the situation concerning the location of Vermilion. However, the town of Queensmouth sits atop veins of secret arcana that run deeper than anyone knows, and Pierce is drawn to them like a lodestone. On the other side of the occulted mysteries, a fierce battle awaits, with the cell's ability to intervene in the Vermilion crisis...

As Mitch attempts to determine a way to return to the United States and rendezvous with Cassandra, an unexpected opportunity arrives, with a serious freight of danger. At the same time, Kiera and Neveah must come face to face with Pierce's mistake and its consequences. Will the group be able to maintain its cohesion enough to move forward? Music Credits: Myuu - Reversion Three Chain Links - Magic...

Returning to the outpost cabin via unnatural means, Pierce and Mitch are left to count the cost of all that's happened. A long-overdue confrontation concerning Pierce's priorities, and an unexpected lifeline... Music Credits: Alexander Nakarada - Freedom Three Chain Links - Magic Hour crt_head - Eat Dust Three Chain Links - Masks and War Drums Three Chain Links - There's the sun, peeking through m...

Mitch, Pierce, and Hailee Pennington in the body of Kiera make it back to the outpost cabin. But how are they supposed to get home? Before that can be settled, however, Kiera needs help returning to herself, which will keep Neveah and Hailee busy for a while. And Abby seems to have found a second location nearby that Bernier was jealously guarding... Music Credits: Free Dramatic Scores - Tales fro...

Time has run out.  With Joachim unaccounted for, Grace having lost her mind to darkness, and Kiera confronting horrifying visions from the past, Gabriel's path to whatever baleful end is nearly unobstructed. The walls themselves seem to lean in, anticipating an unspeakable banquet, as all assembled take part in a ritual nearly none of them understand. Music Credits: Myuu -Ground Noise Three Chain...

The weight of the impending ritual begins to prey on the minds of children and caretakers alike as the night without grows somehow darker. Echoes of past suffering sound through the halls like the memory of funereal bells. And Kiera begins to awaken to her true nature, but makes herself a target in the process. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour ROZKOL - The Ocean Froze Three Chain Link...

Darren Feldman has somehow gone missing. Joachim goes in search of the missing boy while other staff attempt to control the situation on RTC. But something strange is going on with Kiera's friend Samantha, and Joachim's search for Darren leads him to discover something truly disturbing... Music Credits: David Szesztay - Eve Three Chain Links - Magic Hour David Szesztay - In Action Kevin MacLeod -...

In 2005, a record-setting ice storm ravages central Indiana. Cloaked in this frigid onslaught, Fairchild Home For Children, a former orphanage turned residential treatment center for juveniles, looms in the dark, holding its secrets within. On this darkest and stormiest night, more than mere weather threatens the children and their caretakers, as a time-old darkness comes round again. Music Credit...

In a cabin in the Boundary Waters, an incomprehensible existence turns its regard upon our Operatives. As they make their way to meet it, they must walk a road of confusion, pain, and terror. Panopticon concludes as the cell reaches its final reckoning with Andrew Bernier. Music Credits: Neutron Spectre - J-E-N-O-V-A Three Chain Links - Magic Hour David Szesztay - The Wind Twin Protocol - Shadow H...

Plane crashed in the middle of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, the cell, along with Abby and Neveah, must find their bearings and survive the deep cold. Meanwhile, an oppressive regard zeroes in ever further upon them... Music Credits: braids - 03 - 02 Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Sergey Cheremisinov - Night Snowfall The Good Lawdz - Preachin Dem Blues Myuu - Prey David Szesztay - Surreal 2 Davi...

Pierce, Kiera, Mitch, Abby, and Neveah set out on their fraudulent flight reservation to a Boundary Waters outpost cabin resort, hoping to get inside striking distance to Andrew Bernier's retreat. If getting in under the radar with false identities and a load of strange equipment wasn't hard enough, there seems to be something going on with the fly-in pilot, as well... Music Credits: T3NGU - Doubt...