Orpheus Group

The Orpheus Group is a projection firm whose employees project out of their bodies to deal with ghosts and hauntings. The leader in its field, the Orpheus Group (sometimes shortened to Orpheus) is known for its solid, professional reputation.
For a fee, the Orpheus Group will send agents capable of projecting their spirits to investigate suspected hauntings. Sometimes these turn out to be frauds or false alarms, but in the case where a haunting is real, Orpheus agents have been trained to deal with the situation in a number of ways, from helping a lost ghost transcend to simply fumigating the offending party. Orpheus also takes on assassination attempts and murder contracts on living people (which it innocuously refers to as wetwork), but only reluctantly and on a strictly limited basis.
The two major competitors of the Orpheus Group are Terrel and Squib and NextWorld, both projecting firms with different agendas from Orpheus.
== Company Information ==
Orpheus specializes in a number of interests; projecting is foremost, but interest also extends to pharmaceuticals and studies of the nature of death.
Key personnel at the Orpheus Group include:
*Jack Tilton – The CEO of Orpheus is known for his ability to bail out companies in trouble, though not everyone who works at the company appreciates his presence. He replaced Bob Jackson after the former founder died unexpectedly.
*George Oliver – A former client of JDG Cryogenics, Oliver serves as the Chairman of Orpheus Group. His influence on the company is thanks to JDG’s practice of taking over clients assets and using them to buy shares of stock in the company. Oliver, through this process, became one of the main shareholders, and eventually took over his present position.
*Anne Del Greco – A board member and one of the founders of JDG Cryogenics. She maintains an interest in the “traditional occult,” though not necessarily a belief.
*Jane Kennedy – Another board member, Kennedy is unofficially known as the “mother of all sleepers.” It was her experiences in cryonic suspension that led Orpheus into the projection field; whether she can still project outside of the cradle is unknown. Like Oliver, she is also a major stockholder.
*Bob Jackson – The other co-founder of JDG Cryogenics, Jackson served as its CEO until his untimely death in 1996. While the cause of his death was classified as a heart attack, some believed the government had him killed following the Project Flatline fiasco.
: Note: There is an unnamed Orpheus Agent, who become an FBI defector. She is mentioned in pg. 42. of Shades of Gray.
Orpheus is currently located in a two-story building in a well-known industrial area. Beneath the building are four sub-basements, which house the training rooms, nursery, and computer mainframe, among other important, albeit sensitive, areas.
It should be noted that, according to Orpheus: Crusade of Ashes, the campus of Orpheus backs up to the “heavily wooded” property of the Pentex Corporation, a wink-and-nod to the other White Wolf lines and one of the non-Wraith: The Oblivion reference in the series.
== History ==
Orpheus Group began as JDG Cryogenics in 1986, a firm specializing in freezing and caring for the bodies of the terminally ill so they could be safely revived when a cure for their condition was found. Through Jane Kennedy’s experiences, Orpheus discovered some of their clients were actually able to eject their spirits from their body and then return without any ill effects.
Seeing great potential in this unusual side effect and spurred on by stockholders Kennedy and Oliver, JDG decided to reform the company to take advantage of the growing projection field. They became the Orpheus Group in 1994.
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