[HOE] The Librarian's Almanac for November 17th

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

OLD MESILLA POST HEADQUARTERS, NEW MEXICO- Postal Officers are on the look
out for someone out to halt the mail delivery. Six postal workers have
returned home to the fortress town with tales of being beaten and robbed by
an individual wearing bright crimson powered armor. In two instances, the
post worker's vehicle was also destroyed. The Office is offering a
substantial reward to anyone who can get to the bottom of things.

BLACK KETTLE, OKLAHOMA- Law Dogs have placed a four hundred round bounty on
the head of Yellow Medicine Cloud, a spook from the remains of the Coyote
Confederation. The lawmen have over a dozen sworn complaints that Cloud was
spotted trying to dump barrels of toxic waste into the water supply for the
small enclave of Black Kettle. The spook is considered extremely dangerous.
Three wasters aiming to collect the bounty have turned up dead of
asphyxiation, strangulation, and fatal allergic reactions.

SANTA FE FORTRESS, NEW MEXICO- Red Rock Traders from Sedona arrive in the
Fortress town bringing word of a mind-boggling bounty: one cubic ton of
processed ghost rock in exchange for a very old pair of revolvers.
Specifically, a matched set of Colt Army long-barreled pistols over two
hundred years old. Both being of a faded blue steel color; one with an ivory
grip with the word GOOD carved in it, the other gripped in ebony ravenwood
and bearing an etching of the word EVIL.  Law Dogs are offering a quiet
reward of their own to whoever can uncover the patron behind the ghost rock
bounty. Scuttlebutt has it that the bounty originated in the upper region of
Purgatory. There are stories of a particular gunslinger that roams the
regions near the ruins of Seattle. Simone Thunder is said to have a blinding
draw with an ancient but well maintained set of revolvers.

NEAR WICHITA, TEXAS- Chains Tanner, a well-known junker/merchant from the
Texarkana Bazaar has a wild tale for anyone that will listen. Three nights
ago, Tanner was skirting the ruins of Wichita, scouting for salvage when he
witnessed a pitched battle between a warband of Anti-Templars and a strange
skeletal figure on an otherworldly motorcycle. Chains took up a spying
position when he noticed one of the black Templars set up an ambush with a
rocket launcher and he figured that some poor sap had just bought the farm.
No one was more surprised than the Anti-Templars when the skeletal figure
walked out of the pyre. The junker swears that the creepy biker suddenly
leapt nearly forty feet into the middle of the warband and commenced to take
names. The show was over in less than a minute with the axe-swingers down
faster than a teetotaler drinkin' spook juice. The victorious biker broke
each of their axes, stole one of the unconscious warrior's bikes and
departed the scene.  

NORTHERN CASCADE RANGE- Theodore Howard, a hunter and scout from the ruins
of Vancouver reports several trails of four-wheel drive vehicles on old fire
roads in the forests near the Seattle ruins. Howard says that there were at
least seven different tire patterns, all following something leaving heavy
tread tracks.

WESTERN NEW MEXICO- Judge Fargo is announcing the destruction of the
survivor settlement in Mogollon. The buildings were covered in bullet holes
and there were signs that the townsfolk were involved in a pitched battle
with unknown attackers. The town's food depot has been emptied and several
homes have been looted.