[HOE] The Librarian's Almanac for October 27th

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

TEXARKANA BAZAAR, TEXAS- A Templar named Jude the Penitent arrives with word
that something is driving mutant tribes south, out of the Kansas and
Nebraska Grasslands. Few have tried to communicate with the sub-literate
muties but Jude has heard rumors of Toxic spooks on horseback that have been
eradicating mutants in nighttime raids.

TEXARKANA BAZAAR, TEXAS- Texas Law Dogs are raising a posse for a hunting
expedition to the Midland-Odessa region. The village there has sent word
that a strange creature has taken up stalking among the ruins, slaughtering
anyone attempting to leave the enclave. A waster calling herself Gunnysack
got an eyeful of the beast in question and is recommending heavy firepower.
It stood nearly eight feet tall, was composed of bones and armored scrap
metal, had arms made of saw blades and razor wire and could pace a speeding
motorcycle on its eight spider-like legs.

NEAR BEAUMONT, TEXAS- Robin Lansing the Librarian brings word of a horrific
massacre in the rough township in Mesquite, Texas. Lansing and her traveling
companions arrived to find the three local watering holes filed with corpses
and the walls covered in gore. Each scene had some identical details; there
was signs of heavy weapons fire in all three saloons. The forty-seven
corpses died from gunshot wounds and a heavy, edged implement but there were
no bullets in any of the deceased's bodies. Thomas Pulos, a Junker companion
of Lansing's, discovered a clue in the belongings of one of the
ex-customers. One of the wasters was playing with an old video unit in the
final moments before the slaughter. The unit's video function was wrecked
but the audio portion recorded its owner's final statements. There were a
few minutes of loud bar talk and then a moment of dead silence. Someone
shouted  "It's got no legs!" and then the shooting began. Intermittent
screams and gunfire pepper the playback but the most chilling part was heard
very faintly in the background. Something was whispering the phrases,
"Unlawful assembly, selling liquor with out a license, bearing unlicensed
arms, failure to abide an officer of the law..." Lansing also noted that the
saloons reeked of brimstone and were slightly radioactive.

STRATFORD TOWNSHIP, NORTH TEXAS- Judge Fargo reports the sighting of a pair
of unmarked VTOL craft, heading east, out of the outskirts of Wichita,
Texas.