September 17

2001
- Released:
  - MTAs: Book of Madness Revised
  - MTAs: Mage Lighter
  - FDP: Counter Collection I: The Usual Suspects

2003
- Doctors at the Richmond's Medical College of Virginia are reportedly baffled by the dramatic increase in cases of extreme bipolar depression over the last month. Theorizing a heretofore unsuspected epidemiological cause, local authorities called in the Center for Disease Control, who have uncovered that all patients had visited a common location. The Poe Museum, near the popular nightlife district of Shockoe Slip, had appeared in the dreams of each patient, prompting them to visit the museum. The CDC yesterday closed the museum until it can be fully investigated.^[1]

2004
- Los Angeles prostitute Hannah Glazer has an appointment with a new client, Jezebel Locke, at the Empire Hotel. Locke infects her with the Ninth Circle plague.^[2]

2006
- Sylvie Montaigne, a Compliance Analyst of Project Utopia's Science & Technology Department (Hardtech Branch) sends a letter to Peter Cavallino, the CEO of ViaSoft. She informs him that the Shadow Tracker RM technology which he's been working on is possibly dangerous, so she requests that ViaSoft "cease and desist all research, development, and all other inquiry" into Shadow Tracker.^[3]
- ViaSoft CEO Peter Cavallino fires off an angry memo to Raymond Chu, his Director of Special Projects, wondering how the hell Utopia found out about Shadow Tracker RM. He supposes they have no choice but to apologize to Nakamura and accept the Kuro-Tek CEO's offer to purchase STRM.^[4]
- Raymond Chu, Director of Special Projects at ViaSoft, sends Mr. Nakamura an apology, and accepts his May 22nd proposition, provided he is prepared to take possession of all documents, prototypes and materials related to Shadow Tracker RM by the 18th.^[3]

2009
- Sometime before 10AM local time, Antaeus disappears from the Addis Ababa facility. When he fails to show up for a meeting with Project staff, he is reported missing.^[5]