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Shadowrun General => The Secret History => Topic started by: sidslick on <01-25-15/1201:14>
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Can anyone give me a brief breakdown of Boston's in-game history for the past twenty years or so?
Thanks muchly!
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Big things have included NeoNet's birth and the Winternight EMP hit, with the most recent concern being the fact that Boston is in a complete quarantine right now, due to CFD. One of the next campaign books for Fifth Edition is actually going to be about Boston; I assume they'll do a more accurate backstory there before jumping into the current chaos.
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Thanks MijRai - hadn't heard about the upcoming release.
My in-game knowledge kinda stops at around 2064 - I'm fairly good up to Winternight, Crash 2.0 and ECSE returning to Manhattan/New York. At the risk of poorly read and slightly out of date, what is CFD? Is there a in-game reference for it?
Cheers
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Cognitive Fragmentation Disorder
The plotline is covered in Stolen Souls, but the tl;dr of it is that it's a nanite-based infection where digital personas attempt to take over and reprogram the minds of the infected.
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Super - thanks for your patience! Next project, acquire Stolen Souls.......
Cheers
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Splintered state also has an NPC with the affliction to kind of introduce the concept when they launched 5th ed
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Storm Front also plays a role introducing it. But Stolen Souls is the CFD plot book.
FastJack's symptoms arguably first appeared in the fiction for Conspiracy Theories, if not earlier. It's been a slow burn.
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If you're looking for Boston-specific info and are willing to wait, there's the upcoming Lockdown release: http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/products/upcoming-products/.