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• 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