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(Hope this is what you were hoping for, Professor. -- *Z*)

The Order for Irresponsible Behavior: Band of Heroes or simply a Band?

It pains this scholar's heart to continue to use the name "Order for Irresponsible Behavior" to refer to the heroic band of individuals that did so much to preserve Creation during the Second Age, but such was their wish and I will honor that wish and them.

The Order gained that odd title by way of a backhanded comment from a so-called scholar of the time who had heard of the group's practice of Jaunting and immediately assumed they were, as he put it, "commited wholeheartedly to irresponsible behavior".

The head of the Order immediately adopted the term as the group's name.

Indeed, who else but the Order could take their duties so seriously and their standing amongst their so-called peers so flippantly? Most 'heroes' would immediately attempt to refute the slander by pointing out their many contributions to the Age: their assistance with the quantum state phenomena that rescued mankind from Earth's Deluge, the long-time alliance with the Brotherhood Of The Five, their destruction of Hallow The Eater (mk. 1), or their foresight in attempting to prevent the use of the Pentavarate; at that, the fact that they operated for so long without running afoul of the Mandala Principle demonstrates the utmost care with which they approached their responsibilities.

Not that anyone could have ever doubted their honest good intent once they had heard the group perform -- the Order were, after all, last and greatest students of Xad Dunlop -- entire books have been written about their musical tours alone. (But that, obviously is not a subject to be discussed in this scholarly forum. Clean this idle idol-worship out of the entry. -- ed.)

There are those who believe that the reason for the Order's anachronistic behavior and modes of speech were due to the fact that Order was in fact from a future Age. This theory is borne out by the nature of the Order's departure from the Second Age; if rumors are to be believed (and of course what else to we know of this period of time beyond rumors?), it was the Order who removed itself from the end of the Age. Specifically, an iteration of the Order, Jaunting from the Fourth Age to warn their past/future selves to depart "before the Third Age can know our face".

If this is the case, it comes as some comfort to those who imagine that, once the "Third Age" (who else could this mean but Lord Entropy himself?) is no longer a concern, the Order will return to their heroic calling. Perhaps they are simply waiting for the rest of us to catch up.

(Actually, forget about cleaning up this article; the very idea that you bothered to submit this... nonsense to a serious scholarly work shocks and saddens me, Zebulon. I had such high hopes for you, and instead I find that your time "researching" the Ultracrepidating Investigators has pulled you from the path of honest historian to that of... conspiracy theorist. For shame. You know as well I and the rest of the Society that the OIB was destroyed by the Inquistorites, and I won't hear about any of that nonsense you dug up about Melek Taus -- I burned that stack of gibberish before anyone else saw it, and you'll thank me for that one day. Now, get the rest of this trash out of my office!)

See also:

• Jaunting
• Mandala Principle