[HOE] The Librarian's Almanac for November 20th

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

NEW ORLEANS BAYOU, LOUISIANA- Law Dogs are asking for information to the
whereabouts of the individual answering to the name of " Data" Simoneaux.
The man in question has represented himself as a Librarian but there have
been multiple reports and complaints that "Data" is collecting information
for some other purpose. Representatives from the Sacramento Library have no
such person in their logs. There is speculation that the person is an
espionage agent for the Combine. There is a food disbursement for
information leading to the capture and arrest of Simoneaux. There is a three
hundred round bounty for the person or persons that can deliver the
perpetrator to Law Dogs in either New Orleans, Baton Rouge, or Near
Beaumont.

BROKEN BOW, NEBRASKA- local Law Dogs have failed to receive the usual
couriers from the Strongbox in the ruins of the nearby town of Hazard. The
Strongbox was a haven and watering hole for the local scavvie crews that
worked that region of the Midwest. Built into the top two floors of an old
hotel, the Strongbox was reinforced to serve as a shelter from the periodic
Hellstorms that would blow in off of the plains. Pete Mathers, the founder,
had a strict no fightin' policy that his two mutated Dobermans would
enforce. Scouts reported that the entries to the haven were found sealed
with some kind of bizarre organic epoxy-like substance. Posses are being
formed to try and gain entry. 

AUSTIN RECLAMATION ZONE, TEXAS- Amy Harwood, the lead manager of the Austin
Reclamation Zone, is putting out a call for mechanically and technically
inclined people to come and join her workforce. Harwood has been working for
the past year on the project of salvaging the remains of the old Texas State
capitol. While the project has put out a decent amount of usable material,
Amy has had to face numerous trials. Food shortages, escalating cases of
mutations, smaller scavvie crews raiding the storage depots, creatures and
mutants in the ruins have all made this an arduous undertaking. Bernie
Walton, Harwood's second in charge, has placed an addendum to the call: any
person skilled with fighting or a gun will be given a share of the haul in
exchange for guard duty.

TEXARKANA BAZAAR, TEXAS- Trader Barons in the north Texas mercantile market
have publicly announced the first physical description of the mysterious
individual called the Samaritan. Two days ago, one of the bazaar merchants
accused a visiting Syker of attempted thought control during a heated
haggling session. The accused went berserk and began blastin' the merchant's
shop and immolated a few passers-by. Over a dozen witnesses testified to the
local Law Dogs that a small feminine figure in unassuming waster attire
vaulted out of the crowd and pistol-whipped the enraged Syker into
submission with an old Mac-10 machine pistol. What made things odd was the
scarlet silken mask that concealed the hero's features as well as the purple
S left on the Syker's head with a permanent marker. The Samaritan kept the
crowd back from the perpetrator until the Law Dogs arrived to assume custody
and then promptly vanished into the buildings around the Bazaar.