[HOE] The Librarian's Almanac for January 9th

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

MOUNTAIN HOME, IDAHO- the scouts named Preston and Childs logged a very odd
report concerning the local Ghost Storm. Just after moonrise, the storm
abruptly dissolved. After observing from a distance for nearly four hours,
the scouts ventured closer for a detailed examination. After returning, both
scouts swear that there is no sign of the Ghost Storm, only the blast
devastation remains. A  caravan returning from Washington state also
reported a battered blue pick up leaving the area at roughly nine P.M.

BIG BEND, TEXAS- local scouts are reporting multiple foot-trails discovered
heading northward from the banks of the Rio Grande. The tracks themselves
have folks a little jumpy. At first, they only appeared in sets of ones and
twos. In the past week, groups of seven and eight have been discovered. The
tracks are of larger than human size with each stride almost four feet
apart. The shape of the print seems to be something with four small toes
with webbing between each digit.

BROWNSVILLE REFUGE, TEXAS- someone has declared war on the Law Dogs. The
Refuge Guard repulsed a furious assault by a large road gang who were
demanding to have local Law Dog "Steel" Zachary turned over to them as a
hostage for the town's safety. The Mayor refused and the Guards managed to
capture a few of the gangers when the main force retreated towards the
coast. Under interrogation, the roadies revealed that bandit gangs across
the Wasted West have been approached with the offer of spook juice,
ammunition, weapons and vehicles in return for the capture and safe delivery
of any one calling themselves a Law Dog. The prisoners are to be taken to
the ruins of the El Paso Metroplex and left in the old Chamizal historic
Museum. The gangers have no description of the author of this audacious
proclamation; a notoriously foul-tempered scavenger known as Beta-Ray Buck
conveyed the offer to them.

MOVIE TOWN, CALIFORNIA- the Trader baron "Cardsharp" Chafe is announcing the
founding of a new settlement. Chafe is offering a food allotment and an
array of tools for each family willing to make the journey to Bitterwater
Mesa for the reclamation and rehabilitation of the recently discovered
Vannacutt resort.  The trader is also looking for enterprising folks to act
as guards to escort the new owners along the route, engineers or other
technical types to perform any repair that the grounds might need and a
scavvie crew to scour the area for any materials that the new community
might need.

MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS- local scouts have returned from the ruins of Topeka
with a waster suffering from extreme exposure and some form of mental
instability. After several days in the intensive care of a local sawbones,
the man would only repeat the phrase, "They plucked out its milky eye." The
doc confided that his patient was covered in small, regularly incisions
inflicted as a form of torture. He was also under the effects of a
laboratory grade hallucinogen. Among the waster's possessions is a
code-protected electronic data core.