[HOE] The Librarian's Almanac for October 16th

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

ELK CITY, OKLAHOMA- Nathan Ball, the one of the Town Elders, is offering
food and a free reclaimed home for anyone who can come to the aid of his
town. The past three months have seen over a dozen well- executed mutant
attacks on the small enclave, most of them coming from the old Black Kettle
National Grasslands nearby.  Scouts have failed to turn up any sort of base
or leader for these attacks and Elk City is running out of bullets. The
neighboring ruins of the town of Sweetwater held a large Toxic Waste Storage
facility, but no one has ever returned from scouting the area.

JUNKYARD, UTAH- a spook calling herself Burning White Wind arrives with a
warning. The Apollonian Luxury Resort located outside of Redlands, Colorado
has been the victim of a mysterious assault. The Apollonian was a way
station on the route around the Combine on the way to Junkyard for traders
and travelers to rest up before heading into the wastes of Utah. Burning
White Wind arrived to a silent building with several vehicles out front and
a scene of horror within. Two dozen travelers and most of the staff were
discovered barricaded in the third floor flop rooms, dead from extreme
hypothermia. The rest of the staff and the headman of the local mutant tribe
were found dead in the kitchens, having expired from excessive blood loss
from hundreds of cuts. It looked like the kitchen implements were used in
the assault. None of the trader's wagons have been touched nor is any of the
resort's weapons or food missing.

GLOBE ENCLAVE, ARIZONA- Nomad the Librarian arrives with a very odd tale
from the northern region. It seems that there is an armed feud going on
between the neighboring towns of Cedar City and Enoch in southwestern Utah.
Nomad relays that both sides are claming that the other is raiding food
stores under the cover of darkness. The Enochians claim that folks from
Cedar City have been tunneling under their towns protective walls while the
Cedarites are shouting that their neighbors are poisoning the local streams.
Both sides are calling for three Law Dogs to mediate the dispute.

OLD MESILLA POST HEADQUARTERS- "High-dive" Mason logs a report with the
Postmaster of a second hand sighting of a large group of Loyalist Doomsayers
traveling north from the remains of the Elephant Butte Dam. The wasters that
passed the word to him mentioned that the dam's remains are now highly
radioactive.