ORUS (Office for Research of Unusual Science)

This system-free supplement provides a detailed overview of ORUS, the Office for Research of Unusual Science, from its origins in the ancient world, through its various incarnations over the ages, and up to its ultimate realization in the current era as a covert government agency. It is suitable for use with any games, can provide inspiration for other esoteric organizations, and is also just a fun and intriguing read.  

Nominally a research group and sub-department of the U.S. government's Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, ORUS operates as a black ops organization responsible for investigating weird or unusual subjects of interest to the United States and allied covert agencies. Its goal is to assess the potential value of such information for purposes of potentially controlling, acquiring, or using it for its own ends.

ORUS is the most recent incarnation of an ancient occult society with an agenda of its own. It is but one of a bewildering network of related covert organizations, each acting to advance a secret agenda known only to their shadowy leaders. 

ORUS appears as the organization running the occult research facility that is the setting for Skirmisher Publishing's bestselling "The Call of CthulWho" (a self-standing adventure that, among other things, contains all of the rules and resources needed to play it and features a party of monster characters). 

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