[HOE] The Librarian's Almanac for September 5th

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

NEAR TUCSON, ARIZONA- a caravan from the Red Rock Trading Company reports
the town of Flagstaff is being harried by a very large and bold pack of
wolves. Caravan guards fought off a pack on their way out of the region and
the frightened gunslingers say that only a junker-made plasma rifle was able
to bring down one of the ferocious beasts. They have the one corpse, and are
looking for a sawbones to give it an examination.

STRATFORD TOWNSHIP, NORTH TEXAS- Rich Curtis, the proud owner of a horse
ranch in the township, has a little problem. For the last month, once a week
he has been finding one of his horses skinned and the corpse left just
outside of his property. He is curious about why no one is taking the meat
of the animal and why the skinnin's seem to be timed with the changes in the
phase of the moon.


LAS CRUCES RUINS, NEW MEXICO- Ranger Scouts from the Convoy arrive in the
ruins with a strange sighting from the deserts north of the mountains, near
the Old White Sands National Park. Both scouts swear that they stumbled
across an old abandoned ranch in the dead of night. They holed there to hide
from a rampaging mutant hunting party when they discovered the corrals out
back were full of sinister looking skeletal cattle. Both scouts bailed out
when the muties arrived and something started hollering in terror from the
barn on the far side of the property. Old timers might remember a few
stories about a fearsome fleshless herd with an appetite for heroes...

APACHE JUNCTION, ARIZONA- Two bedraggled folks arrive at the Engineer's
Society, dragging a cartload of processed copper and asking for help. The
township of Globe in northern Arizona is under siege by armed walkin' dead,
an APC full of small combots, and a pair of creatures that sound like huge
scrap golems. The townsfolk are low on ammo and running out of time, the two
scouts are offering payment in copper from the mines as well as meat and
furs from trappers. Piper, the head of the Engineering Society, has put out
a call for volunteers to form up a posse to head north to try and break the
siege.