BROWNSVILLE REFUGE, TEXAS- The Brownsville Reclamation Crew returns to the refuge town with a stunning pronouncement. Beneath the ruins and Ghost Storms of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, the crew claims to have discovered the mythical Warehouse 23. Often thought to have been an urban legend, the Warehouse was rumored to have been the storage area for the items that the Texas Rangers considered to be too dangerous to be in public hands. Tales would often circulate about Pancho Villa's frozen head, Billy the Kid's six-guns, Houdini's favorite cuffs, the mysterious Rainmaker's basin, the complete list of the colonel's secret herbs and spices and the scalpel of Jack the Ripper, all locked away forever from the light of day. The scavvies are full of stories of half-collapsed tunnels big enough to drive a tractor-trailer through, row after row of steel doors sealed with old touch pad locks, and rooms full of darkened windows that look into shadowy operating chambers. There was apparently no power in the complex and none of the doors could be opened by any means. The crew is offering a full share of the haul to anyone who joins up to help them claim this mother load of goods. Brownsville is exploding at the seams as wasters are crawling out of the woodwork for a shot at the big prize. Local Law Dogs are having the Devil's own time trying to keep things down to a dull roar.
CLINT, TEXAS- "Sticks" Leibowitz, a former Hockey player turned Templar logs a report of another sighting of the skeletal motorcyclist. "Sticks" was present when the bony biker made a few passes around the village in the ruins of Midland in the Texas panhandle. The biker sports ragged leather clothing and rides a dirty, monstrous bike of unknown make. After a few unnerving minutes, the strange entity vanished back into the night. Leibowitz thinks that the biker is a conjured demon of some sort.
October 9th
BROWNSVILLE REFUGE, SOUTH TEXAS- the town elders have called in Law Dogs to quell a riot. Less than a week after the Reclamation Crew announced the discovery of the possible location of Warehouse 23, six of the ten members have turned up dead. Three have been the victims of throat slitting in the late evening/early morning hours, one has been the victim of a Syker's "Melonhead" power, one had her eyes gouged out and the last was discovered broken in half and stuffed in a trashcan. The remaining four Crew members have vanished and the wasters that showed up in town for the hiring call have started to turn ugly. Rumors have started to fly as rival scavvie crews have begun to accuse one another of doing in the Crew members. Now no one knows where to start looking for the Warehouse and there is talk that someone or something may be trying to keep the location a secret. The wildest rumor involves the ghosts of Texas Rangers that have fallen in the line of duty have came back to protect something still kept in the Warehouse.
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA- Nevada Carl the mutie gunslinger logs a report with the local Law Dogs of the state. Carl happened to be bartering for supplies in the Texarkana Trader's Bazaar when he spotted someone resembling Surtur, the renegade King of the Raiders, purchasing a large amount of powdered Ghost Rock in a secretive backroom deal. Among those in the room were another Syker covered in primitive tribal-type scars, a Loyalist Doomsayer and a woman with compound eyes, insect wings and bright yellow skin. The gunslinger also spotted two figures in black body armor and helmets. Surtur reportedly paid for the mineral with a wagon load of purified water.
OLD MESILLA POST HEADQUARTERS, NEW MEXICO- Beverly Smalls, a veteran postwoman, arrives back to the Post Office in the fortress town with a report of a new settlement discovered at the old Running Indian truck stop between Deming and Lordsburg in New Mexico. The residents are looking to trade clothing and wood for food.
October 12th
BROWNSVILLE REFUGE, SOUTH TEXAS- Burt Whittaker, a Convoy Scout, logs a report with the Librarian for the Refuge. Whittaker was running a shipment of clothes and seed to the village of Rocky Gorge along the old Texas-Mexico border but after his van made the final turn into the valley, he decided against it. The valley that held the town was completely shrouded by some kind of thick smoke. Burt kept watch for almost four hours, but the smoke never lifted and there were no signs of movement from the valley. When his Geiger counter began to sporadically detect radiation spikes, Burt decided to retreat and get the word out. Local Law Dogs are calling Rocky Gorge off limits until matters are resolved..
BLACK KETTLE, OKLAHOMA- Rob "Double-Barrel" Dixon, a Law Dog, logs a report of a Black Hat convoy spotted moving out of Colorado. Heading east across the Oklahoma Panhandle, Dixon swears that there was better than fifty foot soldiers, three heavy trucks, a squad of light cans and a semi hauling a heavy construction crane.
APACHE JUNCTION, ARIZONA- The Engineer's Society has been the recipient of a gift. During a guard change, a small package was discovered outside the main gates of the Society compound. Inside was a collection of microchips and circuit boards in pristine condition. A review of the compound security cameras only reveals a small humanoid figure, wearing a big concealing duster with the collar turned up, dropping off the box and vanishing off the scanner screens.
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA- The gunslinger called Shrike logs a report from Port Smith on the Arkansas River. Captain Molly Stewart is looking to hire a number of gunslingers and other assorted folks to get rid of the river bandits that have been plundering villages along the waterway. Captain Stewart is offering free passage in perpetuity on her renovated river barge and the towns are offering a large amount of trade goods as payment. The pirates have eight large recreational boats and have shown over thirty well-armed individuals as well as a pair of Sykers in the ranks. There are also questions about where the pirates are getting their fuel supply.
October 16th
ELK CITY, OKLAHOMA- Nathan Ball, the one of the Town Elders, is offering food and a free reclaimed home for anyone who can come to the aid of his town. The past three months have seen over a dozen well-executed mutant attacks on the small enclave, most of them coming from the old Black Kettle National Grasslands nearby. Scouts have failed to turn up any sort of base or leader for these attacks and Elk City is running out of bullets. The neighboring ruins of the town of Sweetwater held a large Toxic Waste Storage facility, but no one has ever returned from scouting the area..
JUNKYARD, UTAH- A spook calling herself Burning White Wind arrives with a warning. The Apollonian Luxury Resort located outside of Redlands, Colorado has been the victim of a mysterious assault. The Apollonian was a way station on the route around the Combine on the way to Junkyard for traders and travelers to rest up before heading into the wastes of Utah. Burning White Wind arrived to a silent building with several vehicles out front and a scene of horror within. Two dozen travelers and most of the staff were discovered barricaded in the third floor flop rooms, dead from extreme hypothermia. The rest of the staff and the headman of the local mutant tribe were found dead in the kitchens, having expired from excessive blood loss from hundreds of cuts. It looked like the kitchen implements were used in the assault. None of the trader's wagons have been touched nor is any of the resort's weapons or food missing.
GLOBE ENCLAVE, ARIZONA- Nomad the Librarian arrives with a very odd tale from the northern region. It seems that there is an armed feud going on between the neighboring towns of Cedar City and Enoch in southwestern Utah. Nomad relays that both sides are claiming that the other is raiding food stores under the cover of darkness. The Enochians claim that folks from Cedar City have been tunneling under their towns protective walls while the Cedarites are shouting that their neighbors are poisoning the local streams. Both sides are calling for three Law Dogs to mediate the dispute.
OLD MESILLA POST HEADQUARTERS- "High-dive" Mason logs a report with the Postmaster of a second hand sighting of a large group of Loyalist Doomsayers traveling north from the remains of the Elephant Butte Dam. The wasters that passed the word to him mentioned that the dam's remains are now highly radioactive.
October 19th
YUMA VILLAGE, ARIZONA- A scout from the ruins of Tijuana, Mexico arrives with a report of some kind of construction underway in the stretch of northern Mexico desert named the Journada del Diablo. The Devil's Road as it is called on C.S.A. maps, holds nothing but long stretches of lonely highway. But the scout, one Ferdinand Gutierrez, swears that a large group of people are building a huge stone pyramid in the desert waste.
BROWNSVILLE REFUGE, SOUTH TEXAS- Steel Zachary the Law Dog reports a very strange occurrence outside the Refuge walls. A local trouble making waster going by the name of Fearless was found in the early morning hours just a few dozen meters from the gates of the town, in a state of deep shock. After a visit to the local sawbones, Fearless spun quite a tale. He has no memory of arriving at Brownsville; he was part of a caravan heading for Near Beaumont. Fearless can't account for the rest of the traders and has no idea how he ended up in Brownsville with a bright, shiny new cyberarm.
OLD MESILLA FORTRESS, NEW MEXICO- A Syker mercenary named Lilith arrives with a plea from the township of Clint, Texas. The town has suffered heavy damage from a very bad acid rainstorm and is looking to trade horses and water for building materials and some skilled architects.
TEXARKANA BAZAAR, TEXAS- Word arrives with the Librarian called Nomad that the Venomfang mutant tribe from the Nebraska flatlands has been spotted on the march about a week's travel time from the mercantile trader depot. There is also a suspicion that the tribe is harboring a number of Corruptor spooks within their ranks. "Flamboyance" Greene, a master trader in Texarkana is offering a fully restored King Cab pickup to anyone that can find out of the tribe is on the warpath. If they are, Greene is also offering food and water to anyone who brings back help.
October 24th
NEAR BEAUMONT, TEXAS- a trader caravan from Texarkana arrives on its last legs. On a routine pass around the Dallas-Fort Worth maelstroms; individuals wearing clothes that resembled pre-war Haz-Mat suits attacked the caravan. Out of the three trucks and twenty-five guards only one vehicle arrived in Near Beaumont with four survivors. The guards swear that the masked attackers had fully automatic weaponry and heavily outgunned the caravan members. The trader baron is offering a substantial reward for anyone that can clear up the matter.
SANTA FE FORTRESS, NEW MEXICO- The town is offering good-sized lots in a number of reclaimed storage units for wasters to store non-perishables. Doomsayers needing to store radioactives will have to look elsewhere, unfortunately. In payment, a waster will be contracted to a three-day stint on guard duty of the town and watchman duty on the storage lots. Any waster that does not show up to put in their contracted time will forfeit their stored goodies and the materials will become the property of the Fortress town. The New Bank of Santa Fe is declared open for business.
STRATFORD TOWNSHIP, TEXAS- A waster named Rivets Muldoon logs a report of a jerry-rigged Blimp sighted in the skies over the southern Panhandle. On either side of the monstrosity was painted a large multicolored Doomsayer sigil. There was no word on who was piloting the craft and no Doomsayers could be reached for comment.
OLD MESILLA FORTRESS, NEW MEXICO- Reports reach the Law Dogs of a new warlord running rampant across New Mexico and Texas. A force of thirty armed wasters led by a mammoth specimen calling himself Rictus have hit three small settlements. The gang has taken food, ammunition and small machine parts thus far. Resident Law Dogs Gary Jefferson and Christie Zimmers are placing a two hundred round reward for the folks that can offer up any information on the warlord and his crew.
NORHAM PROVINCE, SOUTH DAKOTA- Librarian Esienberg logs a report of the delivery of six copies of various inspirational fiction from Boise, delivered on the 19th of October by newly knighted templar Robbie Dawson with companions Alfred Cassidy and James Gilbert Quincy. The group then accompany a caravan back to Boise via the small town of Blue Ridge, Southern North Dakota.
(Submitted by Dom, Journeyman Librarian and Defender of Knowledge)
October 25th
BOISE, IDAHO- The caravan from Norham Province arrives missing two vehicles its cargo and the party from Norham. Apparently they were attacked just outside of Blue Ridge by a large green insect which stole the cargo (4 pounds of irradiated ghostrock from the Deadwood reactor), then to add insult to injury they picked up a single naked hitchhiker about 3 miles down the road, who killed four guards, stole one truck and destroyed the other. Eyewitness reports state that he acted "like a child, destructive but not malicious".
October 26th
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA- "High Dive" Mason logs a report in the Grand Library of a stunning find. The eccentric courier swears that the public library in Lincoln, Nebraska is intact. However, Mason says that the enclaves in the area have stories that the local mutant tribes will not enter the Ghost Storm around the city for some reason.
APACHE JUNCTION, ARIZONA- In an effort to promote goodwill and communications between settlements, Piper of the Engineering Society is offering a fully assembled water purifier and a military grade Geiger counter for each town that will field a Skullchucker team for some regular games in Junkyard.
LYNCHBURG, CALIFORNIA- Panderborn the Junker logs a report to Law Dogs that the notorious "Hellcat" Bradley has been spotted north of the Shan Fan ruins. Bradley was driving a junker-modified hover truck sporting heavy weaponry and was seen in the company of a light combat cyborg. Panderborn has heard rumors that Hellcat is talking about buying recovered bio-weapons from someone on Turtle Isle.
NEAR BEAUMONT, TEXAS- Bonhomme Boudreaux, the Trader Baron from New Orleans, logs a report with the Law Dogs concerning the enigmatic character called Mister Whisper. The person in question had stayed a night in town and was offering another mysterious bargain to the locals. Whisper has a standing offer of six Northern Alliance automatic rifles, a footlocker full of ammo, and a backpack full of antibiotics to anyone who can journey to the flooded ruins of West Memphis, Arkansas and uncover the location of the General J.T. Cornpone Memorial Hospital. The interested parties must return with a small portable freezer hidden somewhere on the upper administration levels. The unit must maintain a constant sub-zero temperature. Boudreaux and "Hardcase" Curtis the Law Dog are offering a fully furnished home in Near Beaumont, free of charge to anyone that brings the freezer to the Texas town for examination
BOISE, IDAHO- Scouts from the Convoy report twenty-seven bodies dead from radiation poisoning, most corpses are covered with insect bites. They were found just off the interstate between Deadwood and Boise, heading toward Boise. Strange things may be afoot in Blue Ridge, any one willing to go and investigate will be paid in ghostrock on the following scale: 2 oz. = scout and report, 8 oz. = details of the attacks, 1 lb. = rescue of Robbie and party in addition to the above, 12 oz. irradiated ghostrock = return of the ghostrock from the caravan and elimination of attackers along the interstate.
(Boise, Idaho logs reported by Brother Dom, Librarian Journeyman and defender of Knowledge)
October 27th
TEXARKANA BAZAAR, TEXAS- A Templar named Jude the Penitent arrives with word that something is driving mutant tribes south, out of the Kansas and Nebraska Grasslands. Few have tried to communicate with the sub-literate muties but Jude has heard rumors of Toxic spooks on horseback that have been eradicating mutants in nighttime raids.
TEXARKANA BAZAAR, TEXAS- Texas Law Dogs are raising a posse for a hunting expedition to the Midland-Odessa region. The village there has sent word that a strange creature has taken up stalking among the ruins, slaughtering anyone attempting to leave the enclave. A waster calling herself Gunnysack got an eyeful of the beast in question and is recommending heavy firepower. It stood nearly eight feet tall, was composed of bones and armored scrap metal, had arms made of saw blades and razor wire and could pace a speeding motorcycle on its eight spider-like legs.
NEAR BEAUMONT, TEXAS- Robin Lansing the Librarian brings word of a horrific massacre in the rough township in Mesquite, Texas. Lansing and her traveling companions arrived to find the three local watering holes filed with corpses and the walls covered in gore. Each scene had some identical details; there was signs of heavy weapons fire in all three saloons. The forty-seven corpses died from gunshot wounds and a heavy, edged implement but there were no bullets in any of the deceased's bodies. Thomas Pulos, a Junker companion of Lansing's, discovered a clue in the belongings of one of the ex-customers. One of the wasters was playing with an old video unit in the final moments before the slaughter. The unit's video function was wrecked but the audio portion recorded its owner's final statements. There were a few minutes of loud bar talk and then a moment of dead silence. Someone shouted "It's got no legs!" and then the shooting began. Intermittent screams and gunfire pepper the playback but the most chilling part was heard very faintly in the background. Something was whispering the phrases - "Unlawful assembly, selling liquor with out a license, bearing un-licensed arms, failure to abide an officer of the law..." Lansing also noted that the saloons reeked of brimstone and were slightly radioactive.
STRATFORD TOWNSHIP, NORTH TEXAS- Judge Fargo reports the sighting of a pair of unmarked VTOL craft, heading east, out of the outskirts of Wichita, Texas.