BEAR CREEK BAYOU, TEXAS- The renown scouting duo of Preston and Childs have logged a report of an abandoned caravan just west of the Houston ruins. After a quick recon under the cover of darkness, the scouts spotted a translucent figure wandering between the vehicles. The cargo appears intact but there is no sign of the Trader Baron or the caravan guards. A local has commented that the figure's description resembles Elliot Bell, an elderly Law Dog that has been missing for two months.
OLD MESILLA FORTRESS, NEW MEXICO- The Postal Inspector is announcing the first Annual Postal Carrier Competition. Seven teams of multiple contestants will attempt to carry the mail from Old Mesilla to Santa Fe, New Mexico. After a night's rest the contestants will have to get a five-hundred pound package from Santa Fe to the township of Globe in Arizona. Once that leg of the game is completed the remaining teams must get a three-page message delivered from the Mayor of Globe to Piper, the head of the Engineer's Society in Apache Junction. The message cannot be recorded by any usual means. It must be recited precisely from memory.
MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS- Speed Bump, the resident contributor within the Convoy, is logging a warning concerning Medicine Lodge. Three days past, the Convoy rolled though town with a shipment of food, fertilizer and slugs from Movie Town. Unfortunately, the town has been deserted. There is no sign of the previous seventy inhabitants. Perimeter scouts for the Convoy however, have a strange coda to the report. As the cavalcade was departing, the last cars reported a series of wormling corpses in the outlying buildings. The monsters had been frozen solid.
May 14th
YUMA VILLAGE, ARIZONA- Judge Fargo, a venerable Law Dog, is looking to form up a posse for the purpose of uncovering the murderer of Professor Cathode, an emissary of the mysterious Junker organization known as the Chamber. The victim was discovered dismembered on the old Spacewarp movie set located a day's walk northwest of the village. The mutie population reported in a previous issue of the Librarian's Almanac has not been sighted for nearly a week. Fargo is looking for wasters with impressive tracking abilities.
TEXARKANA BAZAAR, TEXAS- Emmanuel McCain, one of the wealthiest Trader Barons in the community, is offering a fully reconditioned ambulance to the wasters that can recover his stolen statue of Athena. Discovered missing from the Baron's residence last night the statue is a family heirloom cast from bronze and standing three feet in height.
May 21st
BURR OAK, KANSAS- a roaming gunslinger going by the name of Herrod is reporting a bizarre occurrence sighted on the Kansas plains. For twenty miles in either side of the old Mason/Dixon border walkin' dead are starting to appear in groups larger than ten. They appear to be forming rough ranks on either side of the wall and standing at attention. The phenomenon has been ongoing for nearly eight days.
FORTRESS OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON- the heavily armed inhabitants of Olympia are reporting the arrival of a heavily wounded messenger from the village of Pistol River in Oregon. The victim was suffering from exhaustion but has stabilized with some Schismatic Doomsayer medical attention. Pistol River is under siege by a force of bizarre hybrid creatures. They appear to me a mutated mix of spider and centipede that stand four feet off the ground and have been spotted as large as thirty feet in length. The creatures have potent venom and some victims have developed mutations after being bitten. Denizens of Fortress Olympia have agreed to donate weapons and food and are now looking for relief workers as well as caravan guards.
May 24th
FRANKLIN MOUNTAIN ENCLAVE, TEXAS - Nomad the Librarian has asked for the immediate recovery of a steamer trunk full of books stolen from the renovated El Paso Community College. The trunk was roughly four feet by two feet by two feet, made of old oak and bound in brass. Some of the titles include: The Book of Eibon, Les Mysteries, Lieber Ghoules, and the Pnakotic Manuscripts. Those who recover the tomes will be made honorary Librarians
AUSTIN RECLAMATION ZONE, TEXAS - Work has come to a temporary halt in the southeast portion of the Zone today. Amy Harwood, the project head, is looking for several people with psychological skills, a Syker as well as replacements for her structural engineering staff. The circumstances are nebulous but there are a few facts. A work crew uncovered a subterranean tunnel underneath a ruined strip mall. Each person who has approached the lone doorway at the end has come raving back to the surface, completely in the grips of an apparently induced severe phobia. Two cases of arachnophobia, one case of agoraphobia and a case of elurophobia (the fear of cats) have been reported so far.
May 30th
APACHE JUNCTION, ARIZONA - Piper, the leader of the Engineer Society, is passing on a message from Goose Maddox of the Convoy. To anyone in the Four Corners area, the individuals in a tan Dooley pickup truck are not, I repeat, not members of the Convoy. They do not speak for this organization in any fashion. There is a reward for anyone who turns the individuals in for questioning to a local Law Dog.
FORT DODGE, KANSAS - Art Murdock, the so-called mayor of Fort Dodge is looking for some wasters with nighttime fighting skills. For the past month, the village has been losing inhabitants that have been wandering out of doors after the sun has gone down. There is no sign of any breach in the village security and no corpses, either. The victims simply vanish. The tally stands at six wall guards, one town deputy, three "social workers," two caravan guards and three local children.