[HOE] The Librarian's Almanac for November 1st

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

BIG WHISKY, WYOMING- a waster named Nails Nelson relays a second-hand
sighting of a Combine Tribute caravan heading south from the wastes in
Wyoming.

JUNKYARD, UTAH- A syker that wished to remain nameless reports the rumor
that there is a Hellstrome Industry manufacturing plant in the Badlands in
Utah. This would give weight to the stories of patrolling robots sighted in
the southern reaches of the state.

STRATFORD TOWNSHIP, NORTH TEXAS- Scouts from the Convoy report a very gutsy
kidnapping to the Law Dogs. The scouts were leaving Oklahoma, en route to
Stratford. Outside of the deserted town of Oxbow they witnessed six heavily
armed wasters ambush and capture two Combine Light Combat Cyborgs. Using
some odd-looking nets and taser units, the mysterious group rendered the
'borgs into an inoperative state, bound them with thick cable and loaded
them on to a heavy truck. The scouts were fired upon with small arms fire
when they were discovered observing. The ambushers were spotted heading west
towards the New Mexico state border.

BROWNSVILLE REFUGE, SOUTH TEXAS- Trader caravans report a sighting of
several large bonfires out on South Padre Island. 

ENGINEER'S SOCIETY-APACHE JUNCTION, ARIZONA- Sony Mac, a scout for the
township of Globe, Arizona logs a very strange report with the Engineer's
Society. The Phoenix Metroplex Ruins have always contained a huge amount of
walkin' dead. Over the past three weeks, Mac has noticed that the packs of
zombies reported have been smaller and smaller than in the recent past. A
quick tally among the junkers comes to the surprising conclusion that there
has been a reduction of almost 65% in the number of reported ambulatory
corpses. Piper and Sony Mac are curious as to what has happened to the
missing zombies.

BUTTE, MONTANA- a lone tractor-trailer reports being fired upon outside of
the ruins of Bozeman, Montana by someone piloting a World War I biplane. The
attacker was driven off with small arms fire.