[HOE] The Librarian's Almanac for July 17th

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

The Silver Nun reports of a pair of Combine Raptors being found deactivated
along the roads in upper Arizona. Upon investigation, the craft appeared to
be in perfect working order but missing their powerplants with the cannons
and ammo left intact.


The last three months have seen a disturbing trend among Sykers in Arizona.
There have been over six Sykers spotted in various parts of the state having
been horribly mutated but still having perfectly normal heads. The Sykers
have made no attempts to communicate and have retreated every time they have
been spotted. Local Doomsayers are puzzled as well.


Judge Miles Fargo made a terrible discovery in the small enclave of Black
Canyon, just North of the Phoenix ruins. The town was discovered to have
over twenty wrecked tractor-trailers inside the Town Square. It appears the
towns folk died in some sort of gun battle with an unknown force. There were
large amounts of spent shell casings and what look like grenade fragments.
The enigma deepens when it is revealed that there is no sign of the
inhabitants or the attackers and some of the trucks have the markings of the
Red River Trading Company



Scouts from Apache Junction arrive back with a report of what appears to be
a compound off a secondary rail line in the southern Arizona desert. They
are looking for a crew to help them get past the rattlers in the area to get
inside to see about some juicy salvage.


Townsfolk in New Mexico are starting to hear some disturbing stories making
the rounds from the local mutie tribes. The muties are saying that the time
of the great Unmaker is near and soon she will be among the faithful to
reward them for their devotion. No one knows what the mutants are talking
about and the Doomsayers are really nervous because no one had heard of
another religion among mutants before now.

The Arizona nighttime sky just got a little darker. A band of wasters
managed to bag one of the flying creatures near Apache Junction. Two
Junkers, a Syker and a pair of gunmen went out for the bounty and ended up
with the fight of their lives. Once safely in a cage at the Engineer's
Society, the flyer was revealed to be a form of feral, winged vampire. Piper
and the other Junkers in town are now looking for volunteers to head in to
the storms over the Phoenix Metroplex to see if the source of these
creatures can be found. There are friendly mutant tribes known to be inside
the ruins as well as a number of scavvie crews that could be contacted to
act as guides or scouts. Piper is willing to pay very well for any
information on these flying bloodsuckers.