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The Orpheus Protocol
by Rob
Join the Operatives of the enigmatic ORPHEUS organization as they investigate, contain, and attempt to harness occult phenomena around the world in this Actual Play podcast.
Episodes
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Episode 347: The Chester Incident Part XX
Mitch defends himself against Darren's surprise attack, while Ishmael and Faolan are faced with a strategic and moral dilemma. Elsewhere, Tess and Hutch discover a sinister secret plan by the DAS, and Feste and Lydia walk into the very teeth of the Fecundity. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour...
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Episode 346: The Chester Incident Part XIX
Mitch, Faolan, and Ishmael, along with allies old and new, exit the Megastructure to find that the chaos and violence in Chester has escalated sharply in their absence. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Three Chain Links - Gotham is desperate Bruce… Alexander Nakarada - Landskab White Bat…
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Lore, Lyres, and Liars: Foundations
in which Rob and Ben discuss the Foundations arc, taking place between Seasons 3 and 4
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Blackout
We are pleased to present a special episode of The ORPHEUS Protocol, which takes place during The Chester Incident. Music: Three Chain Links - Into Darkness Darren Curtis - Danger Around the Corner Three Chain Links - Hide Mutiara Damansara - Réminiscences Alexander Nakarada - Landskab…
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This isn't Blackout. Sorry!
This was a hell of a week, and as a consequence, I have to push back Blackout. I'm unhappy about it.
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Lore, Lyres, and Liars: Selected Scenes from the End of the World
In which Rob, Ben, Dan, Lilit, and Nick discuss the Season 3 Finale
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Episode 345: The Chester Incident Part XVIII
The Maenad operatives reunite, and must act quickly before the Haunted House is torn down by the wrath of the Expressions. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour White Bat Audio - Shin Godzilla Project Divinity - Floating Ghost Stories Incorporated - Lake of Lasting Agony Kevin MacLeod - Aunt...
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Episode 344: The Chester Incident Part XVII
In the haunted heart of the carnival, the Maenad operatives fight to protect a fragment of creation's firmament from those who would dominate reality itself. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour White Bat Audio - Get Out Kevin MacLeod - Temple of the Manes Sergey Cheremisinov - Patience Sleep...
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Episode 343: The Chester Incident Part XVI
Rhett navigates the uncanny subtleties of a sudden and inexplicable carnival. Meanwhile, Kathleen and Notus flee the hounds of the Fecundity. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kevin MacLeod - Temple of the Manes White Bat Audio - Interdimensional Horrors White Bat Audio - The Creatures of...
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Episode 342: The Chester Incident Part XV
Rhett, Kathleen, and Notus take to the skies as they search for the 4th Eye of Tiamat... and run afoul of that which already hunts it. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour White Bat Audio - Is it too Late Dark Fantasy Studio - La Pomme White Bat Audio - Distress Signal White Bat Audio…
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Lore, Lyres, and Liars: Visitations
In which Ben, Rob, Dan, Nick, and Lilit discuss the Visitations arc of Season 3.
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Episode 341: The Chester Incident Part XIV
In the wake of a cosmic windfall (though one with horrifying implications), Mitch and his companions must at last come to terms with the Architect. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Three Chain Links - Masks and War Drums Darren Curtis - Ghostly Melody Myuu - Promise (Silent Hill 2 Cover)...
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Episode 340: The Chester Incident Part XIII
Darren Feldman reveals the true extent of his power as the First Expression, overwhelming the gathering of powerful people who have gathered to oppose him. And hiding just out of sight of this great battle is something potentially still more dangerous... Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour...
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Episode 339: The Chester Incident Part XII
The Megastructure's list of uninvited guests grows by one, and all differences must be set aside for a fight for survival against this world's apex predator. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Xenojam - Stellar Voices White Bat Audio - End Chapter Theme De Fyras Tecken - Ninth Anticipate Moog...
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Episode 338: The Chester Incident Part XI
The Maenad operatives find themselves on the wrong side of a vicious ambush, and the approach of one of the Expressions. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Daniel Birch - Kalimba and Feedback Scott Buckley - Helios Josh Woodward - I Want to Destroy Something Beautiful (Instrumental) Kevin...
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Episode 337: The Chester Incident Part X
The Maenad operatives find themselves on the wrong side of a vicious ambush, and the approach of one of the Expressions. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour White Bat Audio - Crash Site Daniel Birch - Tape and Water Sergey Cheremisinov - Waltz -The Inevitability Daniel Birch - Death Comes To Us...
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Lore, Lyres, and Liars: The Princess's Tale
In which Ben, Rob, Lilit, Nick, Dan, and Greg discuss the Princess's Tale arc of Season 3 Music: Alexander Nakarada - Jolly Good Captain Alexander Nakarada - He's a Parrot
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Episode 336: The Chester Incident Part IX
The Maenad Operatives rush to put a stop to what they see as a needless and deadly confrontation. And in Chester Illinois, the key to the pursuit of Tiamat's 4th eye hangs by a thread. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Ola Englund - Mix Practice b - SwedishBritish Styled Death Metal Matty M -...
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Episode 335: The Chester Incident Part VIII
Mitch and Faolan journey into the compromised Megastrucutre in search of the missing Ishmael. At the same time, Ishmael and Feste follow a trail of inexplicable violence to an end more horrifying than either of them could have imagined. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kevin MacLeod -...
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Episode 334: The Chester Incident Part VII
Mitch and Faolan huddle with a most unlikely ally, in order to set their collective sights on a path toward Muninn's defeat. Meanwhile, Ishmael goes to church. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Matty M - A Shapeless Dream Matty M - Shrouded in Mist Matty M - The Void Dark Fantasy Studio - The...
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Episode 333: The Chester Incident Part VI
Mitch and his companions take a walk down memory lane, with a refreshing lack of the ominous implication "memory lane" has taken on in their lives. And inside Mitch's family home, there awaits an enigma, an opportunity, and an immeasurable danger. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Ghost…
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Episode 332: The Chester Incident Part V
An unlikely summit, held in a suspended split second, will determine our heroes' course in saving both Chester, Illinois and the very world. Enormous powers weigh in, and the law is clear: As Above, So Below. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Myuu - Not Tomorrow (Silent Hill Cover) Alexander...
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9th Anniversary Q&A Special
Alan Hosts the 9th Anniversary Q&A, where Rob, Lilit, Dan, Nick, Ben, and Arlie join to get a little bit (a lot) real about what it's like to work on something so long that your mortality comes into perspective, as well as many other questions that are a lot lighter than that one. CW: There are...
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Episode 331: The Chester Incident Part IV
The DAS descends on Chester, Illinois in force, and Mitch, Faolan, and Ishmael find themselves hunted without relent. Just when they're cornered like trapped rats, however, the complexion of the battle changes with the sudden arrival of many allies... Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour White…
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Lore, Lyres, and Liars: The Supplicant's Tale
In which Ben, Rob, Dan, Lilit, and Nick discuss The Supplicant's Tale arc of Season 3.
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Night Walks: An ORPHEUS Protocol Halloween Special
Night Walks is a Halloween Special, brought to you by The ORPHEUS Protocol. It is set during The Chester Incident arc. CW: Gore Music: White Bat Audio - You're Next White Bat Audio - Embers White Bat Audio - Memories of a Murder White Bat Audio - Night of the Creeps White Bat Audio - The Shape...
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Episode 330: The Chester Incident Part III
As the mental resonance between Notus and Model-101 builds in strength, the fundamental friction between their unlike minds manifests as an incarnation of that which opposes each of them in turn. A hideously twisted form of Joseph Miller has come to mete out vengeance upon both psychonauts. And...
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Episode 329: The Chester Incident Part II
Rhett Bordeaux attempts an unprecedented fusion of psychic and arcane feats to merge the minds of Notus Fredericks and Model-101, attempting to free the Expression's mind from its creator, once and for all. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Xenojam - Towards Death Kevin MacLeod - Birch Run...
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Episode 328: The Chester Incident Part I
An overwhelming military force descends on Ishmael, Faolan, Stasya, Walter, and Mitch, as the world remembers that a place called Chester, Illinois exists. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Peter Rudenko - 5:00 AM Scott Buckley - The Fury Natus - Cure Alexander Nakarada - Foam Rubber...
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Lore, Lyres, and Liars: Sedition
In which Ben, Alan, and Rob discuss The Sedition arc of Season 3.
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Episode 327: Reckonings Part VII
A deep investigation into Alison's condition yields findings that any sane person would deem impossible... were a truly Impossible Man not at work between the threads of time and space. And deep in the woods, at the heart of a spatial maelstrom, Chad's fate is decided. Music: Three Chain Links -...
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Episode 326: Reckonings Part VI
The residents of the Hidden House must decide what to do with their highly unconventional and unannounced guest. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour White Bat Audio - Enemy Kevin MacLeod - Deep Noise Alexander Nakarada - The Wandering King Alexander Nakarada - Sneaky Sloth Kevin MacLeod - Aunt...
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Episode 325: Reckonings Part V
The burden of an impossible choice falls upon Rhett, Kathleen, and Notus. And to make matters worse, either choice they make will devastate half of their friends at the Hidden House. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Kai Engel - Prologue Jason Shaw - Serenity Scott Buckley - Absolution Myuu -...
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Episode 324: Reckonings Part IV
Rhett Bordeaux, Kathleen Lithgow, and Notus Fredericks return Clarent to the hand of Walter Marchand, but the forces at war within the weapon bearer threaten to tear him, and perhaps the world, apart. Music: Myuu - To Zanarkand Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Three Chain Links - Let's go home,...
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Lore, Lyres, and Liars: The Thief's Tale
In which Ben, Dan, Lilit, and Rob discuss The Thief's Tale arc of Season 3.
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Episode 323: Reckonings Part III
The struggle against the Mnemophage grows ever deadlier as Faolan and Ishmael labor to awaken. And the first domino falls in a series of reckonings decades in the making. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour White Bat Audio - Crash Site Kevin MacLeod - The House of Leaves White Bat Audio - Mark…
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Moving Houses
Music: Three Chain Links - Demons
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Episode 322: Reckonings Part II
Faolan faces their past... and experiences that inexplicably differ from it. Ishmael attempts to survive the influence of the coven he betrayed. And Mitch walks side by side with Walter, toward a final reckoning with the Mnemophage. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Alexander Nakarada - The...
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Episode 321: Reckonings Part I
Mitch and Walter cross paths once again. And as Ishmael and Faolan become conspicuous by their absence, Ishmael has a tense communion with his past. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Peter Rudenko - 5:00 AM ROZKOL - Faces to the Sky Sergey Cheremisinov - Old Ally Sergey Cheremisinov - Train…
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Rainfall: Session 2 (Broden, Jayd, Blair)
***Rainfall is a living campaign, with players from the cast and community of The ORPHEUS Protocol. If you'd like to play, please join The ORPHEUS Protocol Patreon at the $10 tier or above!*** Cast: Dan - Broden DeVries Lilit - Jayd DeVries Arlie - Blair Hagen Adjusting to life in The Town, the...
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Rainfall: Session 1 (Broden, Jayd, Blair)
***Rainfall is a living campaign, with players from the cast and community of The ORPHEUS Protocol. If you'd like to play, please join The ORPHEUS Protocol Patreon at the $10 tier or above!*** Cast: Dan - Broden DeVries Lilit - Jayd DeVries Arlie - Blair Hagen Ambitious, some would say...
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David Lynch Tribute Part III - Mulholland Drive
In which Rob and Lilit discuss a movie that underwent a strange transformation from its original form to a similar-yet-distinct one, and the fun part is that you could assume that refers to the narrative OR the production history and you'd be correct either way.
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David Lynch Tribute Part II - Twin Peaks
In which Rob and Lilit discuss Rob's favorite TV program.
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David Lynch Tribute Part I - Eraserhead
In which Rob and Lilit discuss David Lynch's first feature film.
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Updates and Roadmap
Rob has a frankly unwieldy freight of announcements to share. Music by Michael O'Neill Additional Music: Mortwight - Late Spring Burial
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Lore, Lyres, and Liars: Pilgrimage
In which Ben, Dan, Rob, Lilit, and Nick discuss the Pilgrimage arc of Season 3. Music: Kevin MacLeod - Schemeing Weasel (Faster)
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Lore, Lyres, and Liars: Diaspora
In which Ben, Rob, and Dan discuss the Diaspora Arc of Season 3.
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Episode 320: Megastructure Part VIII
Mitch, Faolan, and Ishmael face the horrors of Crucible House, which run deeper than even Mitch could imagine, and Ishmael attempts a risky stratagem to navigate a deadly maze. And in the center of the spider's web, the Mnemophage patiently marks its growing strength as it prepares to make a meal...
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Episode 319: Megastructure Part VII
Mitch, Faolan, and Ishmael are challenged by the 6th and 7th Expressions, putting their strength and teamwork to a lethal test. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour White Bat Audio - Reaching the Event Horizon White Bat Audio - Rancid Thoughts White Bat Audio - Self Destruct Alexander Nakarada -...
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Episode 318: Megastructure Part VI
Mitch, Faolan, and Ishmael enter into a discussion with The Architect; a parley that will have far-reaching implications for not just those present, but all who hope to make a life in this world. Music: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Three Chain Links - Masks and War Drums Dark Fantasy Studio…
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Join the Operatives of the enigmatic ORPHEUS organization as they investigate, contain, and attempt to harness occult phenomena around the world in this Actual Play podcast.
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The Orpheus Protocol is created and hosted by Rob.
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