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What really happened in Boston and which book can I find it in?

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psycho835:
So, I've been out of touch for a while. Last thing I read about the Boston situation was Lockdown. Now I came back and just got Dark Terrors and... Well, I've got a feeling that there was some big reveal about Boston that I've missed. Can someone give me the titles of the book(s?) I'm missing in this puzzle?

Beta:
That is about it, really. 

They dropped hints of dramatic things to come in Market Panic and The Complete Trog, but I never saw anything actually happen from those hints (no adventures, novels, documentation of horrible things, etc).  There was some progress on CFD cures (not specific to the Boston strain) in some of the other books.

Honestly Dark Terrors has the most information on what is happening that I can recall seeing.

psycho835:
Hmmm, that's a li'l... Anticlimactic.

Michael Chandra:
Maybe the intent was for part of that to play out inside Shadowrun Chronicles expansions.

belaran:
Yes this was the intent (AFAIK). The Shadowrun Chronicles guy (namely Jan Wagner aka Primetide) asked Catalyst to give them a city they could "mess with" and thus arrived the idea of a Lockdown. Sadly, the game did not perform as well as they would have liked and they only did a couple of extension (namely Infected and Mission - and this one did not move forward the story).

So the story develops in the Shadowrun Chronicles barely covers the few, first weeks of the Lockdown - exactly like the source book. What happening between July 2076 to the end of the QZ in ~2080 is a more/less a complete mystery, short of the few notes in Dark Terror.

(There might be a little bit about it in the upcoming Street Lethal book - as far as I understand, but I may be wrong. This book was supposed to be released before Dark Terror and maybe will fill up some gap).

My understanding of the outcome is that apparently Eliohann survives and recovers (maybe helped by the Witch of Salem, Damon and the Dragon aligned Ley Line), but I don't know if he is restored to himself or more of a functionnal Cereus infected Dragon. No idea what happened to the Dissonant Technomancer or PAX. 

One thing however: if you read careful the book (which I did not at the time and only catch recently, as I'm starting a new Boston Lockdown based campaign): the original infection lasts only 3 days. After that, the original nanites dies off, making the spreading of the sickness far less quick. So, contrary to my impression, at first, you don't need a solution to "kill off" the nanites. You just need to kill off the infected ones (or cures them) and apply usual quarantine procedure to reopen the city.

If you have more precise question about the setting feel free to post them here. We may be able to collectively paste together the missing nuggets spread apart the books and the hints in the video game...

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