[HOE] The Librarian's Almanac for September 7th

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

SANTA FE FORTRESS, NEW MEXICO- "Two Bucks" Little the Law Dog is logging a
report of more stolen goods. During a celebration at the fortress town, a
pair of familiar thieves struck again. The man with red skin helped himself
to a salvaged fuel tanker truck. The young oriental woman has unfortunately
upped the stakes in the matter; two deputies were gunned down when she made
a getaway in a stolen Four Wheel Drive pickup. "Two Bucks" is offering a
bounty of 300 bullets made to specification to the people who can bring in
the thieves.

FRANKLIN MOUNTAIN ENCLAVE EL PASO, TEXAS- Red Feathers the gunslinger logs a
report with the resident Librarian about strange goings-on in the wastes
north of town. Roughly sixty miles northwest of the city is Hueco Tanks, a
natural rock formation the size of an old big city tenement building. The
old Natural Park was a historical site in the Pre-War days as a hidden
Indian village with a natural spring-fed water supply. Trader caravans had
taken to stopping there on the way to the El Paso/Juarez ruins for the H2O.
Red found three dead witches with no physical wounds on them, not far from
the four dead Anti-Templars that looked like they had been fed to a wood
chipper. That water source is vital to traders across the Texas and New
Mexico deserts.

LAS CRUCES RUINS, NEW MEXICO- Perquita, a Hispanic scout from the village of
Agua Dulce, New Mexico arrives with wild stories of a compound in the
northern New Mexico Mountains. The excitable lass claims that she has found
a manufacturing plant, outside of the abandoned town of Hatch, New Mexico;
completely sealed off from the elements. Through one dirty window, she saw a
whole room full of cybernetics and armaments. A few locals are gearing
vehicles for a fast trip, along with a few unsavory roadies...

GLENWOOD, NEW MEXICO- Old Deuteronomy the Doomsayer logs a report of a
strange group of blue robed figures that have left fresh perishable foods
outside of some of the smaller refugee towns in the area. No one can see
anything wrong with the sustenance and the azure robed figures have always
vanished down the roadways in the night.

Cassidy Grey, a fledgling tale-teller out of Nevada, reports quite a bit
of activity of late. A large "war-band" of mutants loyal to Silas and led
by a Doombringer named Caliban was seen traveling NE across Nevada looking
to clear out the area of norms to make way for expansion of "the chosen".
This band setup camp in Macguire, NV where they fell victim to a series of
guerilla type raids designed to wither their forces down. In the end the
job was accomplished, but by wormlings. Evidently Macguire had one of the
largest concentration of wormlings recorded in the wasted west living
under it. And they've surfaced, collapsing the town and the warband. The
warband was last seen trudging back towards Vegas with the doombringer's
body in tow.
Submitted by the Junker partners of Boojum & Quark