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 Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Zero-project - Distorted Reality Three Chain Links - Hide Zero-project - Disabled emotions suite - Part 5 Darren Curtis - Finale - part II Darren Curtis - The Final Stand Kai Engel - Junction Kai Engel - Fata Morgana Three Chain Links - It Can't Be Bargained With Nightkhat - Software Update Three Chain Links - Breaking a Synthetic Heart 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.

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 weapons, and to locate people with sympathies to the Maenad cause And this mission, it seems, will take our Agents far from home. Music Credits: Alexander Nakarada - Foam Rubber Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Alexander Nakarada - Freedom Kai Engel - A Neon Flesh Zero-project - The call of the desert Somewhere off Jazz Street - And Now We Must Move On Kai Engel - Streets as Friends Myuu - To Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X Cover) DOS-88 - City Lights Josh Woodward - Bloom (Instrumental Version) Kevin Macleod - Deadly Roulette Robocorpse - End of Freedom 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.

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 and solitary than they'd assumed...

Music Credits: Myuu - Tiffany's Theme Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Darren Curtis - Dark Sorrowful Cello "Soul's Departure" Sergey Cheremisinov - Train Alexander Nakarada - Freedom Kevin MacLeod - Deep Haze Alexander Nakarada - Foam Rubber Pin - Gone Josh Woodward - Swimming to Cambodia Instrumental Version Kevin MacLeod - Divertissement Robocorpse - Still Gone Zombie-Fish - Ambient Guitar (Improvisation) Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith

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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 their hidden supernatural payloads) begins to look more and more inevitable. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Z'EV - Third Movement Nathan Kross and Rob Stith - In the Dark Kevin MacLeod - Satiate Percussion Kevin MacLeod - Right Behind You THUNDEROSE - I'm Broken (Pantera) re-master bXmMusic - #SWAG juliangruber - Black Progressive Groove Penmoss - Noctant Josh Woodward - I Want to Destroy Something Beautiful (Instrumental) Alexander Nakarada - Chronos Caffeine mitt Cocaine - Depeche Mode - Behind the Wheel (Caffeine mitt Cocaine Mix) Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: 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 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 never thank you enough.

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 listeners, to thank.

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 a counter-operation against the Sinaloa Cartel is the price of admission... Music Credits: Nathan Kross and Rob Stith - In the Dark Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Josh Woodward - Dust (Instrumental Version) Chase Rayment - Epicenter Myuu - Grotesque Fantasia Alexander Nakarada - Crossroads F.O.G. - Intervalo de Horror Josh Woodward - Flypaper (Instrumental Version) Myuu - Troublemaker Theme Kai Engel - Difference Myuu - Crime Scene Myuu - Ground Noises (Horror Soundscape) Zombie-Fish - ANNIHILATOR Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: 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, 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 apart once more... Music Credits: Sergey Cheremisinov - Seven Lights Kai Engel - Mist and Clouds Somewhere off Jazz Street - Don't Give it All Away Myuu - Prey ~Reprise~ Somewhere off Jazz Street - Collateral Damage Peter Rudenko - The Painter Three Chain Links - Gaining Traction Josh Woodward - The Hollow Grove Instrumental Version Kai Engel - (I Am) Climbing on Air MATHBAT - Rasputin Crawls out of the Neva River Covered in a Dark, Oily Substance Sergey Cheremisinov - Train Myuu - Pop Goes the Weasel (Traditional Cover) Natus - Screaming Silence Alexander Nakarada - Flynrd Mynrd Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: 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.

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 crosshairs first. Music Credits: Three Chain Links - Magic Hour Somewhere off Jazz Street - Tonight Myuu - Obsessions Kai Engel - Tumult Moonlit Align - Dark Moss Taddart - The Legend of Anzar (Act 2) Marlon Lewis - DEATH CULTVIOLENCE Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: 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 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 Three Chain Links - Masks and war drums Myuu - Promise ~Reprise~ (Silent Hill 2 Cover) Sleep Rivers - Above an Abyss WARHORSE - Caldor's Going Out of Business Darren Curtis - Highland Castle Alexander Nakarada - Traveler bXmMusic - Metal $399 Opening and Closing Themes by Nathan Kross and Rob Stith Director's Note: 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.