Metaplot: Where are we now? Options

[PenAgain]

Ok. I just got done swimming through the "Is SR Past its Prime?" Thread and it left me with a question that, frankly, astonished me. I've ben following the grand and glorious ED-SR Metaplot for a long time now, and I'm left with a weird question-

What is the current Metaplot about?

In the past, you could sum up the events in some way- Bugs, Horrors, Election, Comet... is there currently an arc that I am missing? I mean... what's out there that's looking ready to pop or ready to grow into an even grander threat/issue?

I suppose you could say Sheddim, but in a way they leave me just as cold as the Horror Clouds in LRG's ED Metaplot- en element that does not grab me (as of yet, anyways)

I guess I want to know if the groundwork has been laid for the Next Big Thing, or if anyone has any suspicions that it's coming up in the next few books, or what...

*shrug* I'm just waiting for the next piece of metaplot that knocks my socks off. Dot6W did that, I think- but mostly in a "God I love EarthDawn" sense.

Oh, and I want to repeat a question from the aforementioned thread that seems to have gotten lost...

Where is Tom Dowd these days?

--PenAgain
(I have some perhaps misguided belief that if I could just sit down in a room with Lou Prosperi and Tom Dowd my heart would explode and I would finally know everything there was to know about the 3 Worlds Metapot.)