====== Chapter 14: Fancy's Fuckt ======
[ [[srva:helen_bach:reports:chapter13|Chapter 13]] ] [ [[srva:helen_bach:reports:index|Back]] ] [ [[srva:helen_bach:reports:chapter15|Chapter 15]] ]
\\ \\ 

  * Tae left w/a note saying the Yakuza was after us
  * Jack's decker called saying lots of matrix activity looking for us
  * Helen's talismonger called saying the peeps came back asking aboot us
  * Karsten calls:
    * Apologies for all the heat
    * Says keep the seal safe
    * He will send a team to rescue Fancy
    * In meantime, go to Santa Fe, NM to follow up a lead he has on the Selubria thing
      * A mine owned by AzTech that used to be an old silver mine
      * Technically the mine is supposed to be shut down and in maintenance-only mode
      * But obviously something else is going on...
      * Trucks found to be taking ore up to Selubria facility in Denver
    * Take seal with us
  * Contacts in Santa Fe
    * Penny Dreadful (very proper brit woman)
    * Navajo Joe (Pueblo injun)
  * Meeting at Adobe Cup
    * Peeps gave us info about the facility
  * Scouted the facility that night
  * Decided to observe it over the course of the day
    * 15 people at all times
    * Chainlink exterior fence w/padlock
    * Warehouse + ChemBuilding + Alamo administrative building
    * Blast door in ChemBuilding
      * Goes into mine
      * Had huge astral barrier to the right of the mine shaft
      * Opened 2x/day, 6am and 6pm with mine cart coming out with ore, stayed open 20 min
    * Drones every 3-4 hrs
    * Watcher spirit 1x/day
    * Foot patrol 2-3x/day
  * Decided to head into the mine when they opened at 6am
    * Iron man + Helen + Cat were taken in and concealed by Helen's Ally spirit
    * Runes lined the entrance (proto-chinese and olmec), painted with silver, active at our approach
    * Discovered the huge egg-shaped chamber was an Earthdawn Kaer that had been breached
    * The buildings inside were being broken up and harvested as the ore by robots
    * This place had trace amounts of the astral spores
    * Background count of 4 inside chamber
    * Cat was almost enticed to stay but Helen cast influence and made her leave
  * Escaped and headed back to town and contacted Majestic