As we enter Aztlan, Skelfeng realizes that one of the guards has assensed all of us, as well as the truck. Hopefully we have not been already marked.

We continue into the city, wary of our surroundings. The people here seem more heavily armored than we expected. Eclipse recalls that in Aztlan, it is not illegal to cary guns, just illegal to use them. The air quality is noticeably worse here than in the UCAS.

Skelfeng checks the compass for magical activity, and finds that it is slightly so.

We search for our contact, El Chupacabra, using our GPS. We come to the place to meet El Chupacabra and leave the truck double-parked. We all walk into the building. As we are walking in Jack hears something. Skelfeng goes astral and checks out the adjascent room to see what is in there. He comes upon an astral being in the form of a gator.

Nutz rings the doorbell and it is answered by 4 Mexicans. Skelfeng, who had been staring down the other Gator in astral form, returns to his body.

The leader tells us that we must go somewhere else to meet. We follow them in the truck to another location and begin discussing the task at hand. Nutz asks them if they have any information, and they agree to help us in any way that they can. We agree to give them the scrap metal from the back of the truck, and they gladly accept. We dig out Jack’s car from the scrap and give it to them.

The rebels sell us 3 gas masks to assist us in breathing around the city. Skelfeng pays them 100 nuyen.

We turn in for the night. Nacre realizes that we are at a higher altitude here, which may explain why we have been having trouble breathing.

We ask them about the area and how things work in Aztlan. Skelfeng asks the other gator shaman about blood magic — he warns Skelfeng about blood spirits.

Jack and Skelfeng go to the 7-11 down the street to get munchies, cigarettes and alcohol. We return and rest for the night. Jack pigs out.

Nacre looks outside and is depressed at the lack of vegitation here.

In the morning, we start doing recon in the area with Jack’s car and Skelfeng’s bike. We discover while riding on the bike that it helps to put cloth over our maks to assist in breathing.

This place is exceptionally poor — the rich simply don’t live here. Everything has something to do with Aztechnology.

We find the target building, and see that it is a 4-story temple in a ziggurat form. It is the temple of Xiutecutli. There are several guards at each entrance.

We return and ask our hosts what the temple is about. He says that it is a temple of the fire god. People can go in and make their “sacrifice” by buying trinkets and sacrificing them.

Nutz and Jack decide to go to the temple to take a look around, but reconsider and decide to search for cyberware instead.

We contact WizKid and he says that there is an older temple inside it and that it goes very far underground. He finds satellite pictures of the temple to show us.

El Chupacabra tells us that most of the guards will be gone in a couple of days for the ritual games. This is perhaps our best window for entry.

WizKid finds an old sewer line that runs into the parking lot of the temple, where we can get into the compound.

We ask El Chupacabra if he will assist us in the break-in by causing a distraction. They agree, and say that they will set off an explosion in the area of the temple to draw security forces away. They also have lockpicking devices that will assist in defeating keypad systems.

WizKid finds that the only entrance to the compound open during the festivities will be the south entrance.

The time of the mission arrives, and we stop 1/2 mile to the west of the building, in an old abandoned tenant building. Skelfeng hides his bike at the location with his shotgun.

We sneak through the sewer lines to the temple grounds and open the manhole cover. Jack takes a listen and hears nothing.

We signal our contacts to create the distraction, and hear the explosion in the distance.

Nacre and Eclipse sneak out onto the grounds. Nacre goes towards the guard building and he and Eclipse are suddenly attacked by two large bear-creatures.

Nacre takes damage and Eclipse shoots one of them with her slivergun. Nacre and Jack kill the other one.

Skelfeng quickly heals Nacre and they move towards the building.