Burning Edge

As we tend to do when missing one or more players, we pivot to a discussion podcast about the sixth world instead of playing in the sixth world. Obviously, based on the subject matter we're covering today, you can expect some profanity since we're talking about profanity. If you're easily offended or have young ears … Continue reading "Episode X015: Slang in the sixth world"

With some of the cast otherwise occupied, Jupiter, Omni, and Jeff try to talk about Grid Guide, but somehow end up talking about sports in the sixth world. Everything else gets amped up to 11 in the dystopian future, why wouldn't sports? Recorded 2020-11-19. A couple of videos that we talk about: Florentine football: https://youtu.be/8_tn5Ji0nac?t=59 … Continue reading "Episode X014: Sixth world sports"

Some of the crew gets together to talk about casinos and how gambling might work in the sixth world. Would magic and the matrix work with a casino? Burning Edge Theme by Deuce. Social media and links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BurningEdgePod Discord: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/discord Email: burning-edge@digitaldarkness.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/burningedge Web: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com Subscribe: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9W-x08pfMyDyU24yjfNZZw

Most of the crew sits down to talk about Farming in the Sixth World. All music by Deuce. Social media and links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BurningEdgePod Discord: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/discord Email: burning-edge@digitaldarkness.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/burningedge Web: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com Subscribe: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/feed/podcast/

What would a team of Shadowrunners think of 1999's The Matrix? One of the cast of Burning Edge had never seen the movie, so we decided to all watch it together, then talk about it in character. All music by Deuce. Social media and links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BurningEdgePod Discord: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/discord Email: burning-edge@digitaldarkness.com Web: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com Subscribe: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/feed/podcast/

A behind the scenes non-canon discussion between Micah and Jean-Baptiste (and a few other voices here and there) talking about being pathetic, commlinks, love, and … trolls? All music by Deuce. Social media and links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BurningEdgePod Discord: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/discord Email: burning-edge@digitaldarkness.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/burningedge Web: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com Subscribe: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9W-x08pfMyDyU24yjfNZZw/

We've released another behind-the-scenes, completely non-canon in-character chat, this time between Catherine and Micah. Catherine wants to know about Micah's fashion and steps right into a proverbial bear trap. All music by Deuce. Social media and links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BurningEdgePod Discord: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/discord Email: burning-edge@digitaldarkness.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/burningedge Web: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com Subscribe: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9W-x08pfMyDyU24yjfNZZw/

Of course with the sixth world full of guns corporate security might talk about them. Cat and Thumper have a Bechdel test-passing conversation about stuffed animals, Urban Brawl (go St. Louis Slaughter!), and of course, weaponry. All music by Deuce. Social media and links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BurningEdgePod Discord: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/discord Email: burning-edge@digitaldarkness.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/burningedge Web: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com Subscribe: … Continue reading "Episode X004: Cat And Thumper Talk About Toys, Sports, And Guns"

We released the third extra episode of behind-the-scenes content, a discussion between Micah and Cassandra while they were still gainfully employed at EVO. Patreons at the Reliable Fixer level get access to this exclusive content.Micah and Cassandra take a ride in an elevator, and talk about handling those uppity corporate workers and their so-called “rights”. … Continue reading "Episode X003: Micah and Cassandra Talk About Unionizing"

The Burning Edge cast talks out of character about how sexuality has evolved into the Sixth World, or more importantly, how our primal needs haven’t changed in the future, just become more punk. All music by Deuce. Social media and links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BurningEdgePod Discord: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/discord Email: burning-edge@digitaldarkness.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/burningedge Web: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com Subscribe: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/feed/podcast/

Releasing our Patreon-only content from behind the paywall. A short behind-the-scenes episode of two of the characters talking in-character to get ready to record. All music by Deuce. Social media and links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BurningEdgePod Discord: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/discord Email: burning-edge@digitaldarkness.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/burningedge Web: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com Subscribe: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/feed/podcast/

Jeff and I had a quick discussion about SINs and how they work while getting ready to record a normal episode. Later, I had a similar conversation with Qwaar and Tempest. I thought the discussion was interesting enough to release into the world. This is a pretty short and unscripted talk about part of the … Continue reading "Episode X009: SINs In The Sixth World"

During some high-level negotiations the team was sent by EVO to protect, things started to go wrong. An unknown adversarial team has infiltrated the hotel. Micah’s seen the invaders in the astral. Casandra is staging a strategic retreat back to the team after investigating the carnage of the opponent’s breach point. Catherine is trying her … Continue reading "Episode P005: Are You Contagious?"

Originally published as a Patreon-only backstory episode on 2020-05-25. The team has been asked to keep their boss Mr. Garrow safe and sound during a high-level negotiation with the UCAS diplomats. They’ve checked out the venue ahead of the meeting, and having discovered some unsettling things about recent history there, are ready to actually have … Continue reading "Backstory 004: You’ll Have To Find Someone Else To Torture"

Originally published as a Patreon-only episode on 2020-04-13. Previously, on Burning Edge. It’s still Friday, January 5th, 2080. The team started their recon job at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Conference Center. Cat left a bag of what she claims are clothes in the meeting room while she and Cassandra checked out the tactical situation. Chatting … Continue reading "Backstory 003: That Sounds Like A Good Way To Get Slapped"

Originally published 2020-03-09 as a Patreon-only backstory episode. It’s Friday, January 5th, 2080. The team had a meeting with EVO’s head of security, Raine Davis. Negotiations between the UCAS and EVO are wrapping up, and Chuck Garrow, Vice President of Acquisitions for the United Canadian and American States is being sent to a five-star hotel … Continue reading "Backstory 002: Finish Your Fraggin’ Tapioca Pudding"

As part of winding down the Burning Edge podcast, here’s the first backstory recording. This episode starts with a corporate security team getting a briefing about an assignment they’ll need to take on. Jean-Baptiste, Catherine, and Micah have been on this team for several years now, acting as the security squad for Chuck Garrow, a … Continue reading "Backstory 001: Of Course I Will Tap Into The Cameras While I’m In The Buffet Line"

Burning Edge Theme Song by Deuce. Social media and links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BurningEdgePod Discord: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/discord Email: burning-edge@digitaldarkness.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/burningedge Subscribe: https://burning-edge.digitaldarkness.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9W-x08pfMyDyU24yjfNZZw/

Jupiter (Micah), Jeff (Jean-Baptiste), and Omni have a conversation about Christmas and New Years in the Sixth World. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year from all of the Burning Edge crew! Sound credits: Burning Edge Theme Song by Deuce. Deck The Halls – https://freesound.org/people/Ihaksi/sounds/411420/ (CC0) Cool Style Carol from the Christmas Music Pack … Continue reading "Episode X008: Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy SINless"

A quick PSA from Switchblade.

We’re still trying to record to get the second season ready to go, but sometimes life gets in the way. During one of our sessions neither Omni or Tempest could make a session. Jupiter jumped at the opportunity to get some content recorded for Out of Character (part of the Without a Net podcast media … Continue reading "Burning Edge Interview on Out of Character"

The team managed to successfully plant a data chip on their target to ruin her new career as a politician while saving some food from a protest. Catherine had to be carried from the casino after she inexplicably passed out right before finishing the job. We now rejoin the team in their Americar, getting ready … Continue reading "Episode 022: Tufts and Tails"

Slide is looking to ruin a local mayoral candidate that has been making his organization’s life hell as a local crime fighter, and tasked our team to plant incriminating evidence on her to make that happen. The target, Jeanine Magliano, is holding a campaign event on one of St. Louis’s iconic riverboat casinos. The team … Continue reading "Episode 021: The House Always Wins"

It’s still Monday, January 15th 2080. We continue the casino job to plant data on local political candidate Jeanine Magliano. The team has split up into three groups. Deuce and Catherine posed as employees and entered through the employee entrance. Jean-Baptiste and Thumper appear as a happy couple there for the drinkin’, the gamblin’, and … Continue reading "Episode 020: Perfectly Natural For Me To Be Completely Nude"

The team gets another job from their mob boss wannabe fixer involving one of St. Louis’s iconic riverboat casinos. A local Knight Errant police chief Jeanine Magliano is gearing up for a mayoral run, and is having a campaign fundraiser. It’s a 5000 nuyen a plate black tie affair so I’m sure the team will … Continue reading "Episode 019: I Hate To Give Him Credit"

It’s January 12th 2080. After completing their first job for Slide, the team went back to their apartments, only to find out that local law enforcement had uncovered the carnage, leaving the team once again homeless. The need for new fake SINs has intensified so the team needs to get on with the second job … Continue reading "Episode 018: Stumpy Is Waiting At Home"

The team met back up at Someplace Nice for a measured and rational discussion about what to do next having successfully retrieved the case for Slide. Diplomacy ultimately failed quite spectacularly with tensions boiling over to fisticuffs and murder threats. We join the team now as they head out from the bar to maybe get … Continue reading "Episode 017: You’re Passed Out In The Back Seat Anyway, Shut Up"

The truck jacking didn’t go exactly according to plan. While the team did manage to acquire the case they were supposed to recover, as well as two other cases with unknown contents, they also took more lethal measures than they intended to take creating an orphan in the process. Hiding their tracks seemed like a … Continue reading "Episode 016: I’m Not Drunk Enough For This"

After successfully jacking the truck they were supposed to hit and unsuccessfully getting away from the scene of the crime without getting into a homicidal tussle with the rest of the team, Jean-Baptiste finds himself on his own. Surely nothing bad can happen to a lonely Cajun technomancer wandering around the streets of St. Louis … Continue reading "Episode 015: Bringing A Child Into This World Is An Act Of Cruelty"

It’s still Friday, January 12th. Despite more or less successfully completing the run they were hired to do, tensions still got the best of the team. Mistakes were made, shots were fired, innocent bystanders were hit, and then backed over. You know, a standard day in the sixth world. They did manage to get the … Continue reading "Episode 014: Resting Angry Face"

A Patreon-only backstory episode, released into the wild for Mother’s Day. A special Mother’s Day episode of Burning Edge. Jean-Baptiste’s mother is no longer with us. Catherine’s particular upbringing meant she had no mother. Jean-Baptiste tries to explain parental love. All music by Deuce.

It’s Friday, January 12th, 2080. The day has finally arrived, and a Drakon International truck carrying some precious cargo was supposed to move across the city. The team had mapped out potential routes and set up a plan for stopping the truck with minimal collateral damage, but their carefully laid plans for hijacking the truck … Continue reading "Episode 013: What Is All Of Your Malfunctions?"

Finally, the team has started to actually act on their plan. After arguing a bit about their so-called living arrangements, they did some recon on Drakon International’s trucking. Through no fault of Jean-Baptiste, they didn’t get into any broad-daylight street races and got some valuable intel about response times and the like. It’s Wednesday, January … Continue reading "Episode 012: She’s Gonna Kill You Some Day, I’m Not Going To Stop It"

The team took a bit of a break and started planning how they might be able to take the truck down with the least amount of damage, though what they wanted to keep safe varied greatly. It’s Tuesday, January 9th, and we join them in their ill-gotten apartments as they start to do some legwork … Continue reading "Episode 011: It Is Not Always About Food With Me"

After a successful search for new transportation, and despite Jean-Baptiste’s drug-fueled trouble with reality, the team has gotten back together in some bloody cheap apartments. With the bottom tier of Maslow’s Hierarchy taken care of for now, surely they’ll start working on finding a bit of safety and security in their lives. All music by … Continue reading "Episode 010: What An Awfully Specific Denial"

While waiting for the appointed time to hijack a truck for Slide, the team split up. Catherine and Micah went apartment shopping and found a cozy one bed, one bath place and through some … aggressive negotiations convinced the current owner he’d be happier sleeping in the shower while they used the remainder of the … Continue reading "Episode 009: Have You Never Done Novacoke Before?"

After meeting their fixer to get a job and having a cold and uncomfortable night’s sleep, the team headed to a local diner to discuss their situation. Over one of the last nice meals they can afford without getting some sort of income, the team realized they’ll need to procure the bare necessities now that … Continue reading "Episode 008: Of Course He’s Human, Micah Talked To Him"

It’s the morning of January 8th, 2080. Down on their luck, broke, homeless, and without proper identification, the team made it to a fixer named Slide to ask the self-styled king for his help with procuring new SINs. He agreed to build decent identities for the two less traditional metahumans in the group in exchange … Continue reading "Episode 007: You Just Want To Cuddle"

The Geek Swarm just published an interview they did with us a few weeks ago. I’m not sure Bernie was ready for our particular style of bumper car interview, but I think it went pretty well. We delve into how our podcast came to be, along with some character backstory. Check out their podcast, it’s … Continue reading "Interviewed on The Geek Swarm"

Through one of their contacts, the team found someone that might be able to help them burn their SINs, replacing them with some serviceable fakes. What should have been a quiet drive through the deserted midnight streets of St. Louis became a black hole sucking down the teams’ edge as Jean-Baptiste took umbrage at Deuce’s … Continue reading "Episode 006: You Only Won Because You Cheated"

Micah managed to get a bit of information from her infobroker contact and enjoyed some tasty Soy Bucks coffee. Through no fault of her own, she managed to not get seen by EVO security. Back with the rest of the team, they planned their next moves and had an unplanned and sudden funeral for a … Continue reading "Episode 005: Spank This Motorcycle Riding Fool"

The team met the delightfully sane and completely grounded Dr. Switchblade and slightly improved the long-term life prospects for Cat. The doctor provided a carefully laid out rehab regimen, mostly involving whiskey. While the rest of the team spent a few hours in a reputable medical establishment, Micah tries to get some information from her … Continue reading "Episode 004: She Can Take It Off, She Has Thumbs"

After witnessing the murder of the man they were supposed to protect and finding themselves on the run from their former employer, the team went in search of someone that might be able to help them, as well as some stiff drinks to steel their nerves. They met two of Deuce’s buddies. Trax, the dwarf … Continue reading "Episode 003: You Need Something Removed, Switchblade Can Make It Happen"

The camera fades in with a team of former corporate security folks dealing with the fallout from the drek really hitting the fan during a high-level meeting between EVO executives and UCAS diplomats. They’ve made their way from the scene of a crime they were implicated in to a shoddy and broken down safe house … Continue reading "Episode 002: It Hurts When I Bite It"

Welcome to the first episode of Burning Edge. The team, until a few seconds before this episode starts, was a special security detail for EVO assigned to a vice president while does high-level negotiations. As most things in the Shadowrun universe do, their job went sideways, and the vice president was killed in a double-cross. … Continue reading "Episode 001: Cat, Please Don’t Explode"

We’re super excited to let you know that we’ve scheduled the first few episodes! Our podcast will officially launch February 10th, 2020. Both our first regular episode and our first Patreon-exclusive backstory episode are set to show up in your podcast feeds at 5AM central just in time to make Monday morning commutes slightly more … Continue reading "Launch Day Approaching!"

We’ve got a teaser! A short background of Burning Edge.