[HOE] Librarian's Almanac for June 20th

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

An Indian scout named Boxcar Joshua arrives in Santa Fe with stories that
there are signs of life in the wrecked town of Socorro, New Mexico. Joshua
relates that he saw figures in some sort of rough compound around the old
New Mexico State Police headquarters. He cautions that the area is full of
walkin' dead and the local mutants won't go near the place. The muties told
him that there were demons of light and wind that lived there that can kill
in a heartbeat.

The gunslinger called Shrike relayed a story to the inhabitants of Lordsburg
concerning the nearby ruins of Deming, New Mexico. During his last trip
through, a number of buildings were seen sporting the black Maltese Cross of
the Anti-templars. The Silver Nun has already expressed an interest in an
investigation along with Brother Thelonius, a local archivist. Are there any
other volunteers?

The Schismatic Doomsayer called Old Deuteronomy has announced that his is
putting a crew of healers together to make a journey to Silver City to
render aid to the walled settlement there. He is looking for Junkers to
provide some form of transport as well as any one who can handle a gun to
act as guards. There is talk that the Mountain Devil raiders are in the area
as well as what seems to be a Black Hat scouting party with several Heavy
Cans in tow.


The locals in Baton Rouge are reporting that the pirate gang hidden in the
shipyard near the Huey P. Long Memorial reactor was a smokescreen. A party
of folks went in to clear them out and to see what was salvageable. Of the
fourteen, only two escaped and one died on the boat trip back. The survivor
spun a tale of ambushes and booby-traps on the three beached ships with
pitched battles between human raiders and some form of shadowy wraith-like
creatures. The survivor spun wild tales of things folding out of shadows,
gunfire having no effect and equipment being snatched away by invisible
hands. The locals are feeling considerably out of their league.