The Order of O.D.D. is a pan-dimensional group of beings that believe that the age of Babylon is at an end, and whose purpose is to salvage as much knowledge of the old ages as possible, from possible destruction in the transition which we call the Singularity. This we propose to do by compiling a Liber Mundi, or Book of the World, combining techniques proposed by Leitizia Alvarez de Toledo and Maurice G. Dantec. This involves a single volume of ordinary format, printed in nine or ten point type, containing an infinite number of infinitely thin leaves. You will not be able to read this book, not due to your unworthiness, which is undeniable, but to technical difficulties which are but a minor obstacle to our Glorious Plan.

Until this small hitch is sorted out, we plan to use the inferior technology of the WWW, and some good old-fashioned magick. We are usually the mouthpiece the rest of O.D.D. uses to communicate with the public, and thus are the first chapter of O.D.D. to have gone public on the Internet and display some of our ancient documents to the world at large.

The Sacred Order of O.D.D. is a peaceful organization, aimed at the preservation of the past, and resistance through knowledge. Our particular area of expertise relates to factual material from the Age of the Gods. Contrary to popular rumor, we can safely assure you that there is no Secret Order of O.D.D.

In the year 1723 someone rescued an expert scholar, Leitizia Alvarez de Toledo from the Chtolian hit-squads of what was still, pre-Age of Marketing and Spin, the Multiverse Empires. Leitizia was an expert on the Library of Babel, an early experiment in Black Iron Prison psycho-technology that eventually led to the Babylon Class of BIPs. Thanks to De Toledo, some other people broke out Babel’s last Librarian, the homoplasmate Kadmon. Why they did these nice things for us we have no idea, but with the help of Kadmon’s Strange Mystic Powers, we have built our own infinite (or rather unlimited and cyclical) library, which we call Liber Mundi, opening across the WWW at twenty-past the Singularity. That de Toledo has joined our Order is entirely coincidental and should in no way alarm the authorities.

We protect, decode, translate, and study this Library of the Order of O.D.D. In the past, documents relating to the actions of the gods were few and primarily mythical rather than factual. A subset of O.D.D. has always been more interested in this element of our struggle (by vested interest, being mostly out-of-work deities), but our chapter, dedicated to pure research, came into being in a great founding ceremony in 1732, in the Library of Dubrovnic. The dinner was nice, and there were some rousing speeches, though that of our founding father, a famous Orang-utan, seemed to consist mostly of an hour of the same sound repeated with different intonations, punctuated by expressive scratching and hanging from things.

The Order of O.D.D. has no membership roles, no leaders, and no official facilitators. It does however have a really impressive array of titles, and one of the longest greeting protocols known this side of Ganymede. It is comprised of many strong personalities that are able to work together without Babylon-inspired roadblocks such as hierarchy, punctuality, or filing.

All this has been said and done not to recruit or rally members to our cause, but merely to awaken in the general populace the innate knowledge that Babylon is cruel and can be thrown off like any shackles.

Though we humans learn about wars and other various mutilations in school when we are young, are bombarded with violence every day and live in a society that admires Multiverse Inc.’s most self-serving, egotistical and cruel gods, we must not become Babylon, and fight it with weapons of it’s choosing. We are after all scholars, seekers of knowledge and truth, and therefore rather scrawny and not good warriors at all. I personally am a coward and phobic about physical pain.

The Red-I Knight Sonny Winters once wrote, "Violence and dogma are the weapons of Babylon. If you use them, you should be prepared to become Babylon. The only thing we need to remember is that Babylon is not OUT THERE, it's IN HERE (ourselves), and in changing ourselves, we transcend the Dark Empires and begin again. There's always time for talking; negotiation is always a possibility; Dogma only breeds ignorance (not unity) and violence is the last recourse of the unimaginative. Oh, and keep it funny: if we can't laugh, it's not our revolution."

A sentiment more tersely expressed by our August Magnificence & Head-Librarian Horselover Fat, of the Micronesian Branch of the Order of O.D.D.: