The Orpheus Protocol
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 444
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Episode 24: Agendas Part II
***TRANSMISSION*** URGENT MESSAGE: Rob and Dan will be attending Acadecon in Dayton, Ohio, on November 10-12. They will each be running ORPHEUS Protocol games in which you can participate. For ticket…
Episode 23: Agendas Part I
***TRANSMISSION*** URGENT MESSAGE: Rob and Dan will be attending Acadecon in Dayton, Ohio, on November 10-12. They will each be running ORPHEUS Protocol games in which you can participate. For ticket…
Episode 22: Reflections Part VII
***TRANSMISSION*** URGENT MESSAGE: Rob and Dan will be attending Acadecon in Dayton, Ohio, on November 10-12. They will each be running ORPHEUS Protocol games in which you can participate. For ticket…
Episode 21: Reflections Part VI
Kiera and Pierce make a desperate, doomed bid to rescue Mitch from his kidnappers. Later, Mitch is reunited with his childhood enemy, Jeremy Stockton. A mysterious organization seems to have taken u…
Episode 20: Reflections Part V
Mitch makes his long-fated return to the Braddock House, but the misguided membership of the Chester Paranormal Research Society promise to be a persistent and comprehensive hindrance. As Pierce and…
Episode 19: Reflections Part IV
The cell begins its investigation of Chester, Illinois. Mitch finds the town both familiar and strange, suspecting that perhaps he himself is what has changed... and not for the better. Their search…
Episode 18: Reflections Part III
Atop a lonely mountain, Pierce meets his new mentor, and is subjected to difficult questions and a reality-defying test of will and focus. Back at base, Ashleigh tells Kiera about some unsettling thi…
Episode 17: Reflections Part II
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 locat…
Episode 16: Overdue Book Part IV
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 y…
Episode 15: Overdue Book Part III
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 chi…
Episode 14: Overdue Book Part II
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. …
Episode 13: Overdue Book Part I
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 amo…
Episode 12: Reflections Part I
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 Feld…
Episode 11: Missing Pieces Part VII
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…
Episode 10: Missing Pieces Part VI
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 im…
Episode 9: Missing Pieces Part V
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 farmh…
Epidode 8: Missing Pieces Part IV
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 natu…
Episode 7: Missing Pieces Part III
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 Is…
Episode 6: Missing Pieces Part II
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,…
Episode 5: Missing Pieces Part I
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…