Mar 26, 2026 · 4 min · 5 segments
Borderlands: Dead ECHOs is a darkly comedic audio drama set in the chaotic Borderlands universe. It follows Watts, a disenchanted DAHL Echo Operator, who supplements his meager pay by sifting through…
I'm just an echo operator for Dahl.
You're the guys that place all the random echoes around? No, no.
I mostly handle
the undeliverables.
You're the dead echo office.
Let's see what's next in the queue.
I just want to cancel my service! Hmm, it sounds like you want to cancel your service.
Yes! I need to confirm that you are not a robot.
Wait, what? Seven, it's
Mother.
Mom, I'm kind of busy right now.
It's my Maluan volcano.
A sniper rifle? Mother, why do you have a sniper rifle?
So this is what you do all day? Snoop in on people's private echoes? It's not snooping.
It's a real thing.
Hey, I don't kink shame.
Sometimes when I'm clearing echoes, the person on the recording will let something slip.
Gratitude Journal, I just knew that was my spiritual son to rob that donation box absolutely blind.
Whatever do you want? I just figured you'd want to know that the resupply cargo for Mr.
Baron's mercenaries is en route to Pandora.
Yes, war profiteering.
My secret indulgence.
And you sell that info to interested parties? It's an honest living.
Oh, it's the opposite.
I'm just an echo operator for Dahl.
You're the guys that place all the random echoes around? No, no.
I mostly handle
the undeliverables.
You're the dead echo office.
Let's see what's next in the queue.
I just want to cancel my service! Hmm, it sounds like you want to cancel your service.
Yes! I need to confirm that you are not a robot.
Wait, what? Seven, it's
Mother.
Mom, I'm kind of busy right now.
It's my Maluan volcano.
A sniper rifle? Mother, why do you have a sniper rifle?
So this is what you do all day? Snoop in on people's private echoes? It's not snooping.
It's a real thing.
Hey, I don't kink shame.
Sometimes when I'm clearing echoes, the person on the recording will let something slip.
Gratitude Journal, I just knew that was my spiritual son to rob that donation box absolutely blind.
Whatever do you want? I just figured you'd want to know that the resupply cargo for Mr.
Baron's mercenaries is en route to Pandora.
Yes, war profiteering.
My secret indulgence.
And you sell that info to interested parties? It's an honest living.
Oh, it's the opposite.
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