[HOE] Librarian's Almanac for June 22nd

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

A scout from the hidden community in the Franklin Mountains reports that
some form of bizarre siege is taking place in the ghost storm around the old
Fort Bliss Air Force Base. The base was thought to have been sacked during
the Mexico invasion, then gone for good when the missiles went up. The
stories are of a force of Anti-Templars and a big tribe of Mutants having
some sort of running battle over the course of the last two weeks. The fight
had gone on in and out of the storm around the base until both sides seem to
stage a final assault inside the maelstrom wall. The next day a patrol of
Black hats in full HAZMAT gear arrived from the northern plains and drove
straight in to the storm. Three days later, a group of twenty Green-robed
Doomsayers trooped down out of a boat on the Rio Grande and made straight
for the same place. The locals are very nervous about so many powerhouses in
one place and the local Law Dog, "Vaquero" Manny Felix is asking around for
anyone to go with him to try and figure out what the Hell is going on at the
Fort. The final pieces of the puzzle making themselves known is the
blue-white ball lightning that the maelstrom wall is beginning to emit and
the lone unmarked Hummer that has been seen skulking in the ruins of the
areas around the base.


Traders from the fortress of Santa Fe arrive with news of the town of Van
Horn. The town elders are shocked to learn that the traders have tanks and
tanks of spook juice that the people of Van Horn were asking to trade with.
The traders took it gratefully but have no answers as to where the "Hornies"
got their hands on so much go-juice.

A cattle baron from Clint, Texas named Luis Munoz is looking for some
capable individuals to track down a missing cattle drive. It was supposed to
have gone to the settlement of Far Houston, but he got word that the cattle
and its caretakers never arrived. Time to hunt something that goes "Moo" in
the night

A report comes from the ruins of Seattle that s group of strange, 
automaton-like creatures are enslaving the local humans. The one human the 
reporter managed to talk to said that the robots said to go into Seattle and

break down anything standing, and, if they see a cat, to kill it. The human 
then went on to describe that the automatons live in burrows, and a group 
called the "Owsla" is in charge. Another local claims to have seen these 
robots jumping over each other, as if playing.

Report logged by Big Pete the Law Dog