The Orpheus Protocol

The newly-formed operational cell comprised of Mitch, Kiera, and Pierce is informed by Tiresias, its new handler, that they are to take 3 days for R&R before being transported to an undisclosed location for intensive training exercises. Mitch and Pierce try to unwind, but Kiera uses the time off to dig into Pierce's sordid -- and highly classified -- past. The cell is taken to a secret training grounds deep in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, where they meet their training support staff, and Mitch and Diana engage in a brutal test of swordsmanship designed to tease out memories surrounding his own death. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Sergey Cheremisinov - Seven Lights Kevin MacLeod - Divertissement Kevin MacLeod - Aftermath Kevin MacLeod - Darkest Child Free Dramatic Scores - Epic Music - Clash of Ages Kevin MacLeod - Ibn Al-Noor DEgITx - Minefield (Feat. Matty M.) Sergey Cheremisinov - Train Kai Engel - Will I Ever See Another Sunrise? Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

Hailee is given desperate instructions by Vivien's spirit to "repair" what Jeremy has done to the Long Legged Larry children's book, but the Braddock house is under siege, just as it was all those years ago. Meanwhile, Jeremy seems to want some kind of final confrontation with Mitch, but the thing on the roof seems less picky about its prey. A shocking reach for power, a rekindling of faith, and an awakening of intertwined fates propel each of these young heroes toward a destiny greater than they can know. The battle for the town's soul is fought with prayer, magick, and baseball bat as the circle closes. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Into Darkness Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kevin MacLeod - Measured Paces Myuu - Now or Never Free Dramatic Scores - Horror Music - Feel the Knife Kai Engel - Melted Wings Kai Engel - Oneiri Kai Engel - Written in Ink Sergey Cheremisinov - Northern City's Secret Three Chain Links - He Walks ROZKOL - Faces to the Sky Kai Engel - The Price of Valour Sergey Cheremisinov - Train Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

As Hailee, Mitch, Samson, and Walter all prepare to go to the Braddock House, they're met with surprising and dangerous resistance, and the house itself is filled with horrors. The riddle of the children's book Jeremy had taken to the house demands to be solved, and the spirit of Vivien Braddock reaches out to communicate. But the search for answers will not be allowed to go unimpeded... Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kevin MacLeod - Long Note Two Myuu - Trembling (Horror Soundscape) Remain - Breakthrough Fatal Injection - Untitled Myuu - Pop Goes the Weasel (Traditional Cover) Paul Sop - Horror Yubatake - Rollup Tristan Lohengrin - Le Manege des Damnes juliangruber - Black Progressive Groove Myuu - Creepy Clown Symphony Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

After warding off Jeremy Stockton and his sycophants, the gang come clean about the strange experiences they've had recently, and Hailee and Samson have it out over their differences in philosophy. With the uneasy alliance struck, the four young heroes must brave the Braddock House in hopes of discovering the source of the paranormal disturbance that seems to be rippling through the town of Chester. Both Mitch's father and Samson's grandfather pass down stories of Arthur Hook's old baseball bat, their sudden recollections too timely for coincidence. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Natus - When it Comes Myuu - Growing Shadows (Horror Soundscape) Kai Engel - Shining Dawn Kai Engel - Realness Kevin MacLeod - Children's Theme Keven MacLeod - Heart of the Beast Free Dramatic Scores - Tales From the Asylum Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

In the Summer of 2007, Mitch Hook is graduating from Chester High School in Chester, Illinois. Mitch, his best friend Walter Marchand, and acquaintances Sampson Campbell and Hailee Pennington are among the few who admit that Chester is simply not a normal town. No town this size should have this many disappearances, urban legends, and reported hauntings... Not to mention a vast, maximum security mental hospital and prison for the criminally insane. The night before the last day of school, Walter, Hailee, and Samson all have terrifying experiences that seem somehow connected, and Mitch knows that something must be done. But that's assuming the high school bully doesn't waste one or more of them before they can do their Scooby thing. Music Credits: Josh Woodward - Shadows in the Moonlight (Instrumental) Josh Woodward - I'm Letting Go (Instrumental) Natus - Rough Kevin MacLeod - Ghostpocalypse 6 - Crossing the Threshold Myuu - MSP#1 Forsaken Nathan Kross and Rob Stith - In the Dark Kevin MacLeod - Awkward Meeting Brett Van Donsel - Horror Opening Credits Kevin MacLeod - Bump in the Night Josh Woodward - Talk About Your Feelings (Instrumental) Natus - Vces Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

Upon being extracted from the ruins of the Congregation of the Gentle Hand's secret sanctum, our operatives undergo the debrief process, with Pierce's motivations falling under suspicion. Darren Feldman asks for Kiera and Pierce by name, requesting a visit in exchange for valuable information. He reveals that the extent of his unexplained knowledge goes far greater than ORPHEUS expected, and is ready to make a deal. Meanwhile, in hypnotherapy with Dr. Stewart, Mitch recovers the memory of a lost face from his youth. This strand of recollection leads him to regain a crucial event that set him on the path that ended with his death in Jerusalem. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kevin MacLeod - Apprehension Sergey Cheremisiniov - Tavern free dramatic scores - Horror Music - Shards (Sad Mysterious Drama with Music Box) Kevin MacLeod - Long Note Four Kai Engel - Cloudburst Sergey Cheremisinov - Pulsar Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

On an unstable island deep in the Florida swamp, a nightmare decades in waiting awakes and licks its teeth. Mitch, Kiera, and Pierce are ordered to hold out until the strike team can arrive, but time has simply run out. In a desperate bid to contain the darkness that festers at the island's center, our operatives must face death, madness, and utter depravity. Can they survive? And if they do, what will they have become? Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Into Darkness Three Chain Links - Magic Hour ROZKOL - It's Waking Up Kai Engel - Oecumene Sleeps Black Juggernaut - Black Mirror Kai Engel - Anxiety ROZKOL - Ambient I-IV ROZKOL - Intro Kai Engel - Between Nothing and Everything ROZKOL - Called Your Bluff Kai Engel - The Price of Valor free dramatic scores - A Nightmare in Blood (Heavy Shocking Psychotic Sounds) Kai Engel - Nothing Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

Elijah and his faithful have retreated to their ramshackle fortress deep in the Everglades. There, the final ritual is begun as Elijah seeks to actualize his vision. With backup too distant for an immediate response to the crisis, Kiera, Mitch, and Pierce must use whatever means necessary contain and the situation. That is, if Pierce can get out of the alligator's mouth. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Inflammator - Still Tri-Tachyon - Digital Mk. 2 Kevin MacLeod - The Ossuary 1 - A Beginning F.O.G. - Intervalo de Horror Kai Engel - Comatose Black Juggernaut - Stormwitch Cloudkicker - Chameleon Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

Kiera, having been chosen to take part in the next initiation of the Congregation's mystery, begins her preparations. Pierce tries to help her enact an extraction plan, while Mitch surveils the farmhouse from the swamp's edge. The infiltration is thrown into chaos, and the time for subtlety comes to an end. As bullets fly, can there be any hope for the mission's success? Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Myuu - Rising Walls Three Chain Links - It Can't Be Bargained With Three Chain Links - Drive Fast Harbinger - The Possessed LUDICY - ENIGMA Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

Mitch and Kiera travel to Florida to attend the Congregation of the Gentle Hand's monthly tent revival and attempt to reconnect with Pierce. Finding Pierce is simple enough, but ascertaining the nature of the group and its aims is nearly impossible with ears everywhere and Pierce's own allegiances in question. Elijah, the Congregation's charismatic leader, puts on a touching service on the theme of kindness, and seems every inch the guileless saint, but ORPHEUS has seen his kind before. Can Kiera and Mitch uncover the truth without compromising their anonymity? Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour The Good Lawdz - Preachin' Dem Blues Bustedbenz - A Mighty Fortress is Our God Josh Woodward - The Vagabond Black Juggernaut - Stormwitch Kevin Macleod - Dances and Dames Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

Mitch and Kiera descend into the depths of Sanctuary, ORPHEUS's maximum security holding facility, to meet with Darren Feldman. Feldman, a sadistic serial killer once involved in ritual worship of Ishtar, has insights concerning Pierce, Kiera, and Mitch alike, all of which seem impossible for him to have learned from the cell in which he's been entombed. To make matters worse, Darren raises doubts about whether or not Kiera and Mitch even have the sanctity of their own memories to rely on, and mockingly hints that he and Kiera have some kind of past together. Shaken by their disturbing encounter, both operatives try to make sense of the missing threads of memory that torment them as the Congregation of the Gentle Hand makes ready for its tent revival. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour ROZKOL - Last Train in the Station Roland Macintosh - Sad Siren Song Myuu - Ground Noise (Soundscape) Kai Engel - Dancing on the Edge Sergey Cheremisinov - Train Kevin Macleod - Satiate Josh Woodward - The Vagabond Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

In a secretive, late-night meeting, Kiera and Mitch meet with their handler, Tiresias. He reveals to them that their upcoming mission is the subject of heated debate at the highest levels in ORPHEUS, and that the information they're to be officially given will set them up for nothing but failure. Risking a fate worse than death, Tiresias tries to give his operatives the best chance he can. Meanwhile, Pierce and Jack find themselves outnumbered and outgunned in a hopeless firefight, and must use all their skills, both natural and unnatural, for even a chance of survival. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kevin Macleod - Night at the Docks Kevin Macleod - Night at the Docks (Trumpet) Nikol S. and Symphonic Band - The Shadows of Horror Fatal Injection - Untitled Myuu - Reflection Sergey Cheremisinov - Old Ally Kevin Macleod - Ice Demon Myuu - Look Out Josh Woodward - Private Hurricane (Instrumential Version) Josh Woodward - Gravity Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

In the Summer of 2016, Pierce Keswick, an ORPHEUS operative on a deep-cover cult infiltration, fell out of contact with the organization. Months later, his location is found. Meanwhile, Mitchell Hook, a fallen operative reconstructed with cybernetic technology, struggles to recover his lost memories. Elsewhere, a young psychic suffers painful visions of her guardian, ORPHEUS operative Kiera Jackson, engaged in a clandestine meeting with Mitchell and an unknown figure. What unseen threads connect these three operatives, and what does their future hold? If Pierce's former partner is to be believed, the answers won't be pleasant. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Gray is the Sky Sergey Cheremisinov - Sea and Night Kai Engel - Cloudburst Kevin Macleod - Ibn Al Kai Engel - Floret Taddart - Outro (The Day of Honour) The Good Lawdz - Preachin' Dem Blues Kevin Macleod - Night of the Owl Kevn Macleod - Heartwarming Kai Engel - (I am) Climbing on Air Kai Engel - Delirium Fatal Injection - Untitled Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

Isaiah has called his followers to gather with him, but Zachary fears that the great event is not only imminent, but being perpetrated against the unknowing flock with evil intent. Artemis has confronted Caitlyn with her true identity, leaving her desperate to explain her way out of a deadly confrontation. And somewhere in the depths of the mansion, a tortured voice gibbers and mewls. With the revelation fast approaching, will one last gambit by Koji be enough to give the operatives a chance of success -- or even survival? Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Into Darkness Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Black Juggernaut - Stormwitch Three Chain Links - Feverish ROZKOL - The Den Black Juggernaut - Black Mirror Kevin Macleod - The House of Leaves ROZKOL - Intro ROZKOL - Called Your Bluff ROZKOL - Corrosive Three Chain Links - Dance Harder Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note The First: Next week's episode is a special one indeed, marking the launch of our full-length campaign with new operatives, new thrills, and new horrors. We hope you enjoy it even a fraction as much as we've enjoyed recording it thus far. If you *have* enjoyed it, please consider leaving us an iTunes review, as this is the best way for us to reach a wider audience. Director's Note the Second: This episode had us encountering some issues with microphones; likely some radiant interference caused by Zach's telekinesis. Everything should be quite intelligible and listenable, but rest assured some of the rougher bits of vocal quality are not indicative of any long-term problems, and largely disappear as of next episode. The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

The Operatives continue their investigation, attempting to determine the true aims of the Prophecy Children and the significance of Ben Weiss's occult theories. Meanwhile, rumors of strange voices in the night cast doubt on Isaiah's account of how the cult obtained Weiss's fortune. But matters are made more complicated when Isaiah returns from his preparations to minister to his flock, and the investigation takes an uncertain turn when one of the cult's most trusted lieutenants reveals that they've discovered something about one of the Operatives... Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour ROZKOL - Ambient I-IV ROZKOL - Ambient V-X Kai Engel - Oneiri Josh Woodward - Under the Stairs Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: This episode had us encountering some issues with microphones; likely some radiant interference caused by Zach's telekinesis. Everything should be quite intelligible and listenable, but rest assured some of the rougher bits of vocal quality are not indicative of any long-term problems, and largely disappear after episode 4. The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

After their strange encounter with the Lady Clothed in Crows, the ORPHEUS operatives make their way to the isolated mansion of the late Ben Weiss. There, they meet with representatives of the cult. As they attempt to ingratiate themselves to their suspicious hosts, it becomes apparent that Weiss's special effects artworks are treated as holy objects by the Prophecy Children, and that his bizarre work is deeply intertwined with their vision of a new age of enlightenment. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Josh Woodward - Invisible Light (Instrumental) Kevin Macleod - Cambodian Odyssey Kai Engel - Floret ROZKOL - Ambient I-IV Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol releases every Monday.

In this, our inaugural episode, we travel to 1969, as three operatives of the mysterious organization known as ORPHEUS are tasked with infiltrating a new age cult. A sudden additional assignment to gather information on a local folk myth leaves doubts as to whether all is as it seems with the mission, the cult, or the operatives themselves... Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Demons Josh Woodward - 20/20 (Instrumental) Kai Engel - Sopor Kevin Macleod - Blackbird Josh Woodward - The Raven and the Swan Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: This was the first time two of the three operatives had ever played The ORPHEUS Protocol, and thus involved a lot of learning at the table. I've elected to leave a lot of that table talk in, to help the listener grasp the basics of the system. Though there will always be table talk, it will become somewhat less prevalent in later episodes. The ORPHEUS Protocol is supported by our generous backers on Patreon: Visit http://www.patreon.com/orpheusprotocol for details. If you enjoy The ORPHEUS Protocol, please consider dropping us a review on iTunes. This is the best way for us to reach a broader audience. The ORPHEUS Protocol will release every Monday.