The characters have been resting for a few days since our trip to California. Skelfeng has moved into the warehouse, and the others have purchased equipment and made calls to contacts for information.

Smoke Jaguar contacts us and says that they have fashioned a compass that points towards the next artifact. It is their estimation that it lies in a temple somewhere in Aztlan. Nutz and Eclipse try to triangulate the position of the artifact using the compass and a GPS unit. It seems to be somewhere in the central plains of Aztlan, formerly Mexico.

Nutz contacts his friend in Minnesota for further information.

Jack contacts a man about installing a machine gun on his Jackrabbit car. Nutz, Jack and Skelfeng go to the man’s shop to pick it up. At first the man balks at helping out strangers to get gear, but soon he is convinced and shows us the merchandise. Jack buys a Vigorous Assault Cannon, and gives the man 1000 nuyen more than the asking price. The guy is impressed and said that he would accommodate us if we need anything else in the future.

As we return to the warehouse, while walking back from the car Skelfeng’s leg explodes in pain. He has been shot — badly — and goes down. It is apparent that someone is trying to kill us. Before we can fire back he disappears on a motorcycle. At the place where he was hiding, Jack finds a shell from a high-powered military grade rifle. It has markings that suggest it came from Tir na Nog. Skelfeng heals his own wound but passes out from the spell drain.

When Nacre hears about the bullet and it’s supposed origin, he becomes agitated and calls a meeting. He tells us that he used to live on an island for many years, but people of an undetermined origin invaded his home, bearing the same marks as the bullet Jack found. He killed several of them and has been on the run from them ever since. He thought that he would be safe from them in Milwaukee, but obviously that is not the case.

Skelfeng tells him that he will help him out no matter the danger. Jack gets angry and eats a sandwich.

Nutz’ contact finally returns his call and says that in order for us to get into Aztlan, we should go to one of the official border crossings and bribe the guards with some nuyen, instead of trying to go across the Rio Grande.

We speak to Wiz Kid the decker about assisting us more directly in our missions from now on. He says that he needs better equipment to be of any real help, especially while hacking into systems. We decide to give him 50,000 nuyen of our group funds to start him off with new programs and equipment.

The group also talks about getting more security for the warehouse and rigging the sub to automatically submerge if Wiz Kid is in danger. We spend more nuyen on adding the security.

We also purchase registered SINs for each of us, and Nutz gets a special one that will allow him to haul weapons on the truck. We put Jack’s car and the surveillance drone in the container on the back of the truck and pile scrap metal on top of them, so it makes it look like we are hauling scrap metal to Aztlan. We also pack medicine to bribe the guerillas with.

We take the long trip down to the border, and bribe the border guards with 1000 nuyen for passage. We keep moving and soon we are on the outskirts of Aztlan City. We catch a glimpse of Quetalcoatl flying over the city.