[HOE] The Librarian's Almanac for August 28th

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

YUMA VILLAGE, ARIZONA- a local Librarian gets a report from some Great Maze
scouts of Black Hats chasing folks out of the desert wastes north and west
of the town. One or two old timers remember tales of military airfields
north of Yuma. Other more recent folks also have first hand accounts of
snakes with heads the size of shoeboxes, roaming herds of feral iridescent
camels, a variant of the wormling creatures that sport barbed chitin armor,
freak sandstorms that chase folks and more than three tribes of hostile,
cannibalistic mutants living in abandoned movie sets. 

MOVIE TOWN, CALIFORNIA- Wily Tadaka, a Chinese trader baron from the Great
Maze is looking for some enterprising souls to track down a missing person.
Tadaka deals partially in movie slugs and three days ago his best courier,
Slick Baker, vanished from the baron's warehouse. Three slugs were found
missing; one compilation of pre-War music videos, one old flatvid detective
movie and a recent production of the Director entitled "Seige of Santa Fe".
Wily Tadaka is offering substantial pay for anyone who can get to the bottom
of things.

TEXARKANA BAZAAR- Three separate scouts arrive with reports of a strange
surreal caravan. Each time it was spotted, witnesses swear that they saw
roughly constructed wagons being pulled by heavy combat cans. The cyborgs
are all sporting the strange arcane sigils seen in Wichita and Alamogordo.
The wagons themselves were all covered with rough tarp, so no one knows what
the strange man-machines are hauling but almost everyone would like to know
why all three caravans are heading for the ruins of Houston.