[HOE] Librarian's Almanac for June 16th

[Michael Cone <Michael.Cone@apollogrp.edu>]

The town of Agua Dulce in New Mexico is requesting the attentions of a Law
Dog or two. It seems that there has been a series of misunderstandings
between some townspeople and a tribe of thirty or so nomadic Indians. The
Indians are threatening to  "Call down the Father of All Storms" if one of
their young women is not returned to them. The townsfolk say that the girl
does not want to go back.  There have been sightings of a raider gang in the
area as well. And then there is the small matter of the youngster's recent
hair loss and strange dreams...



The fortified town of Santa Fe is offering an outrageous bounty for the
heads of five notorious gunslingers. The reward is whopping 500 rounds of
ammunition for each cranium returned to the Fortress town. J. Dennis
Anderson, the mayor, swears that the fearsome five started an impromptu
shooting competition in the town gardens. When one of the locals actually
beat several of the gunmen, they shot him to pieces and made a blazing,
bloody getaway. The group is lead by Deadeye Dave Barney, a large ex-marine.
The others include Stinky Peter Godsey, a smelly waster with a deep Cajun
accent and fear of water, Gerald "the Gimp" Russ, with his polished .44
revolvers and lame left leg, and  "Gleamy" Julian, a Syker veteran of the
Banshee Campaign which left him a bona-fide sociopath. The fifth, one Jeremy
Smokebreather, is currently in the small jail maintained in Florence,
Arizona. Smokebreather swears that he was never near the place and doesn't
even know the others.


A waster calling himself Iron Patrick arrives in the Upper Nevada town of
Desperation, with wild claims that a pack of Mutants have gotten their claws
on three full sets of Powered armor and are savaging any settlements that
they come across. The tale sounds like it was seen at the bottom of a
brewer's barrel until the refugees start coming in to town. Refugees full of
stories of great iron creatures that tore whole ceilings of off buildings
and that could just shrug off small arms fire. The real worries begin when
the Loyalist Doomsayers are spotted fleeing North and west into Templar
Country...


A Junker by the name of Sparks Roberts in the fortress town of Santa Fe
stuns the town with a startling revelation. She claims to have finally
completed a satellite transceiver rig and is going to start broadcasting
news to all those within reach. The celebration is short-lived however when
Roberts, her lab and the transceiver array perish in a huge explosion a few
days later. Things start getting really weird when those people with radios
start hearing little voices calling for help in the static. Lots and lots of
little faint voices.