[HOE] Librarian's Almanac for July 7th

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

Boxcar Joshua logs a report of a small settlement he discovered along the
remains of the old Elephant Butte Dam. The settlement is willing to trade
time at the remaining generators in exchange for supplies and ammo needed to
defend them against the local raiders.

An Indian scout named Lightning Shadow arrives with a story that the
inhabitants of Van Horn are raiding anyone they come across to make spook
juice. She only escaped when her companions bought her enough time to escape
on a motorcycle. The scout is out to put together a posse to try and free
her friends as well as anyone else she can as well as put an end to the
abominations in Van Horn. The problem is that it's not just Spook Juice that
they're cookin' up behind the walls of Van Horn.


Judge Miles Fargo, an aged Law Dog, arrives with a spectacular catch.
Surtur, the so-called King of the Raiders is in his custody, doped to the
gills to keep him from exercising his Syker abilities. Judge Fargo insists
on giving the notorious bandit a fair trial in town, but a local scout
arrives with word that a big chunk of Surtur's underlings have been spotted
heading towards town, armed to the teeth.


The Louisiana scavvie known as Pere Bayou has put out a call for any Junker
that can make the journey to the swampy ruins of New Orleans for a most
unique competition. Pere Bayou has a very unique prize for the person that
can assemble the most beneficial junker device for the citizens of the
Wasted West. The prize will be the precise location of a submerged tank of
LOX, almost two cubic tons of the powerful fuel. The junkers are already
converging on the swampy remnants of the Crescent City to see who can claim
the prize. Unfortunately, the Luddites have also gotten wind of things and
plan to crash the party. Look for fireworks amid the mud and cypress trees
in the land of gators and good times.


The fortress town of old Mesilla in southern New Mexico has put out a bounty
on the heads of the Dust Demons road gang. The ornery packs of raiders have
harassed the tiny enclave for months, depriving them of food shipments that
are badly needed from the nearby orchards. The bounty is one restored
motorcycle for each posse member or several pieces of armor made to order.
The head of the Dust Demons has heard of the price on his head and is
planning to put some of his own people in the posse and lead them to a trap.


A caravan from the Red Rock Trading Company reports that an old locomotive
was spotted on the rail line from Tucson, heading in the general direction
of New Mexico. Not long after, scouts from the company start finding
discarded bits of clothing from gangers along the rails. No weapons or a
vehicle just clothes.


Several towns report the visitations of Old Ned. Old Ned is a battered and
rather shopworn combat Borg who arrives in town pulling an old four-wheeled
cart. He badgers and pesters the locals for any recent dead to be put on his
cart so that he may take "them on to a proper funeral" He never has raised a
hand or plasma blade to anyone and departs swiftly if given any corpses. He
heads into the wilderness with his charges and some of the locals are
getting a little curious as to what is going on.