[HOE] The Librarian's Almanac for September 19th

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

NEAR TUCSON, ARIZONA- Lightning Shadow the scout arrives with tales of
terror and woe from the northern reaches. Up near Monument Valley, several
small nomadic Indian tribes have come under attack by Black Hat patrols. The
tribes all follow the Old Ways and are ill equipped to deal with the
mercenaries.
Horse-mounted bandits dressed all in black have sporadically attacked a
small village built on the southern rim of the Grand Canyon called Sun
Ridge. The attacks have been increasing in ferocity every time foragers from
the town have tried to approach the canyon to fish in the Colorado River.
Winter is approaching and Sun Ridge is in desperate need of supplies.

NEAR BEAUMONT, TEXAS- a two-bit mutie gunslinger going by the name of Nevada
Carl arrives with a report of someone carrying out a savage grudge against
Librarians. In the past three months, six agents of the Great Library in
Sacramento have been discovered dead in small out of the way towns and
ruins. Bodies have been discovered in the ruins of Needles, California; Show
Low, Arizona; outside the walls of Near Tucson; in the abandoned ruins of
Lordsburg, New Mexico; near the walled enclave hidden in the University of
New Mexico at Las Cruces and out in the old Balmoreah Hot Springs National
Park in west Texas.  In every case, the Librarian has been brutally tortured
to death with extreme physical strength. Each agent's palmcorder has been
found at the scene of the murder smashed nearly flat. Librarians are advised
to not to travel alone.

OLD MESILLA POST HEADQUARTERS, NEW MEXICO- Beverly Smalls, a postwoman, logs
a plea from the township of Bisbee in Southern Arizona. The townsfolk are
having mutual nightmares that are increasing in severity every seven days.
Two older folks have already succumbed to heart attacks brought on by fear.

FORT DODGE, KANSAS- Big Pete, the Montana Law Dog, has put out a call for
some "special" help. The inhabitants of the enclave have been the victims of
a strange sort of plague. People have been falling ill with a high fever and
night sweats that turn fatal. In a few days, the afflicted spontaneously
combust! Local doctors are baffled and the townies are starting to panic.