The Orpheus Protocol

Aboard the Asherah, Rhett Bordeaux is overwhelmed by a gestalt nightmare of fiery torment. Sampson must flee the overwhelming strength brought to bear by the Lance of Olyndicus, and Freya must try to keep hold of her friends and her purpose against all odds. With explosives quietly waiting below, the Asherah becomes the stage for a final confrontation between the Maenad Directive and the lingering...

The Maenad agents and Jack must infiltrate the Asherah vessel under the cover of darkness to set their explosives and destroy the cartel's supply of eldritch-charged ash. However, the approach proves difficult and lethally dangerous. On board, things only become worse as the cremated dead make their presence known, and a weapon finds its ideal target... Music Credits: Darren Curtis - Bleak Horizio...

Freya Benton, Rhett Bordeaux, Sampson Campbell, and Jack Kincaid speed away from the gulag they just escaped, with the Cartel hot on their tail. And even if they manage to escape this pursuit more-or-less unscathed, they've got an occult reagent mass-production operation to disrupt. And not much time before Sol Invictus sends more forces to secure their prize... Music Credits: Josh Woodward- Me an...

Pierce and Neveah race toward the scene as Kiera and Mitch prosecute a guerilla war against the entrenched Sol Invictus forces in Chester, Illinois. The balance of power shifts once more, as the OPSEC arc comes to a close. Music Credits: Josh Woodward- I'm Letting Go Instrumental Version Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kai Engel - Chance DegITx - Machine Paradigm soo.su - Take the Colours Pain the...

Kiera, Mitch, Abby, and Neveah arrive in Chester, Illinois in pursuit of Abby's computer equipment. But their arrival is complicated by a high-stakes surveillance situation that will prove very delicate in the untangling. Pierce, resolute to stay away from Chester and whatever plans Nadara al-Hashem has for him, is nevertheless called into action when all other avenues are frustrated by the contin...

The cell reunites at the hotel, and while it takes a village, they begin to get to the bottom of what's wrong with Pierce, with assistance from an unlikely source. Revelations concerning secrets Pierce has been keeping significantly change the tenor of the mission moving forward, and a course is set. Music Credits: Myuu - Storytime Kevin MacLeod - Divertissement Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kai...

Still unsure of Pierce's whereabouts, Mitch and Kiera decide just how much information Abby needs to be safe, and what information would just put her in more danger. Elsewhere, Pierce is approached by some... interesting people. Music Credits: Kevin MacLeod - Faster Does it Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Three Chain Links - Demons Three Chain Links - In Dreams Kai Engel - Deserted City Myuu - Unbo...

Cut off from all aid with the Coyote Ramblers and the Cartel in the rear view mirror, and Pierce in the throes of an occult nightmare from which he seems unable to wake, our Operatives have seen better days. But there's still a chance of finding the help they need at DATCON, if they play their cards right. The convention is a hive of digital scum and villainy, and just the place to find the kind o...

In the tiny fishing village of Chullachy, Freya and Rhett discover a terrible secret, and are forced into a desperate  fight against a superior force. Here ends the Retrieval Arc, with the stage set for an overdue reckoning. Music Credits: VektorMusik - Auld Lang Syne Three Chain Links - Magic Hour David Szesztay - In Action David Szesztay - Eve David Szesztay - Surreal 2 Sublustris Nox - Behind t...

In need of greater computer resources to aid in "Caitlyn's" reconstruction, Freya and Rhett once again hit the road. Later, their search for the missing contents of the weapons cache where they were ambushed leads them to the doorstep of the mysterious "Group 13," an agency allied with the Church in a battle against supernatural evil. Music Credits: Myuu - Jingle Bells (Dark Piano Version) Three C...

A convoy of cartel vehicles descends on Freya and Rhett, who've unwittingly sprung a trap at the site of a Maenad Directive weapons cache, long since looted. A battle between wildly mismatched forces ensues. And elsewhere, hidden in the memories of untold numbers of computers in untold numbers of places, a critical ORPHEUS asset waits, ready to be reawakened... Music Credits: Borrtex - One Moment...

With her life now saved by Freya and Rhett's decisive aid, Atalanta outlines a plan to use an experimental psychic technique to locate a significant person who she was unable to secure in the aftermath of ORPHEUS's decimation. As the time for her next task approaches, Atalanta also focuses her attention on helping prepare Rhett and Freya for their mission to retrieve a trove of data, a cache of we...

Maenad Directive agents Freya Benton and Rhett Bordeaux lay low in a safe house in Red River Gorge, Kentucky while awaiting further details on their upcoming assignment from Cassandra. But the relative respite carries with it a burden of dark memory, and both Freya and Rhett find themselves facing traumas from their pasts. And both agents suddenly find that the safe house is perhaps less secret an...

Pierce's side of the operation against the Cartel is already in jeopardy, as seemingly supernaturally powered enforcers from the Cartel proper take charge of the defectors and release some kind of eldritch working that shakes Pierce to his core. Mitch, Kiera, and Jack are left to pick up the pieces as the operation's parameters are thrown into chaos, and a pitched battle between the two gangs (and...

In case you didn't hear at the end of the First Anniversary Q&A Special: After a long time considering it, we're finally pulling the trigger on this Patreon launch. There are a lot of reasons for this, which you'll hear in the announcement, and a lot of exciting opportunities for the future of ORPHEUS, as well. Every single listener has been a part of what's made this all possible, and we can neve...

TheCalebG of The RPG Academy fame hosts a (very, very) long Q&A session and retrospective on this, the anniversary of The ORPHEUS Protocol's release. Staci, Dan, Jhan and I join Caleb as we look back on the project from its humble beginnings to its perhaps overambitious present, take some great questions from the listeners, and act a bit silly. It's been a hell of a year, and we have you, the list...

Kiera, Mitch, and Pierce are put through a crash course in operational training by Jack, who's less than impressed by their capabilities as a cell. At the compound of the Coyote Ramblers motorcycle club, our operatives hone their skills, discover new abilities, and prepare to run a deadly errand for the gang. The Ramblers will help the cell secure supplies they need to go after Andrew Bernier, but...

Kiera, Mitch, and Pierce are finally given a moment of respite, now rid of the Sol Invictus team that had been hunting them since Chicago. Jack re-establishes contact with our operatives, and much is revealed as all (or maybe not quite all) of the cards are put on the table. The way forward is unclear, but the danger is certain; and tensions mounting within the cell threaten to tear the group apar...

Lying low in a ratty motel, Kiera, Mitch, and Jack try to make sense of what's on the audio cassette tapes Tiresias led them to in his final moments. But Sol Invictus hasn't given up the chase. Our operatives will have to determine how the strange accounts recorded on the tapes can be used to find their way forward to the contact Tiresias told them about... but they'll need to get out of the cross...

In a place beyond imagining and beyond time, a man finds himself on the shores of an impossible sea. Upon this final precipice stands the Last House, and its lonely keeper within. Truth, the future, self... all are disassembled and reconfigured by the enormity of the infinite, reflected in eyes that see beyond all things. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Angels Blind Ear Left - Inner Vision Thre...

Cut off from ORPHEUS, terrified of pursuit, and with certainty itself a bitter memory, Kiera and Mitch make their journey on dark, lost highways. They search for hope, with nothing to hold onto but a handful of numbers; a final order and gift from Tiresias. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Demons Three Chain Links - Darkness Somewhere off Jazz Street - Refuge Kevin MacLeod - Ghostpocalypse - 8 E...

As a thank you to everyone who left iTunes reviews, followed us on Twitter, and helped to solve the ARG, I now present to you the "Cleanup" saga in its entirety (though split into multiple episodes for upload, it's long you guys). Cleanup chronicles an important event in ORPHEUS's recent past, and honestly, it'd be unkind to say much more than that. Cleanup's story is a mystery, and trust me when...

As a thank you to everyone who left iTunes reviews, followed us on Twitter, and helped to solve the ARG, I now present to you the "Cleanup" saga in its entirety (though split into multiple episodes for upload, it's long you guys). Cleanup chronicles an important event in ORPHEUS's recent past, and honestly, it'd be unkind to say much more than that. Cleanup's story is a mystery, and trust me when...

A plot to subvert ORPHEUS itself is brewing, and Diana enlists Rhett and Freya to help turn the tables on the double agents executing the coup. And as a familiar group of Operatives make their way out of Chicago, it's up to Maenad Directive to safeguard their escape. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Into Darkness Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kevin MacLeod - Deep Haze Myuu - Look Out Three Chai...

Freya and Rhett risk life and limb to board the secret train ORPHEUS is using to evacuate Diana and Orion from the besieged facility. But a speeding train full of armed ORPHEUS operatives with orders to shoot intruders on sight turns out to be the second worst thing to happen to them today. A new and bizarre enemy reveals itself, and The Maenad Directive is put to the test in battle. Music Credits...