[Ilmarinen]

Super Mutants (Mutants)

------------ST -- PE -- EN -- CH -- IN -- AG -- LK

minimum.....5......1.......4.......1.......1......1...... ..1
average.......8.....6.......7.......2.......4......5..... ...5
maximum....13...11.....11......7.......11.....8.......10

Racial (dis)advantages: +50% RR, +20% BR, +15% ER, +2 HP/level, +25% DR all, PE -2 when using Small Gums, -25% to hit when using Small Guns, cannot wear human-sized armor

Description: Mutants are a race produced by one insane Vault Overseer [which they refer to as “Master”] who wanted to create a master race. Using biological research from a pre-war military installation, he developed Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) and began experimenting on people. After “dipping” the person in a vat containing FEV virus, they would undergo an intense physiological change – they grew much stronger and more intelligent, as well as growing in height, stature and muscle mass. Armies of Super-Mutants were once slaves to this Master, and his dream was to dip every single human on the planet. Eventually he got killed by some party of roaming adventurers.

Origin: Outcast, Masters Army Remnants, Nightkin.

Nationality: Mutant [they are changed after the dip on cellular level, and forget [almost] all of their previous memories].

Tweaks: Generally Mutants are huge, weighting anywhere from 280 to 350 lbs, and stand anywhere from 2.8 to 3 meters tall, and come either male or female. Their skin is usually greenish yellow in color and various bunions and growths cover their body. They have hair on all the usual place, but it usually grows slowly [a result of slowed cellular mitosis from the FEV virus]. Although sterile, they increase their numbers by dipping other humans. Although for short period after “dipping” Mutants can have children, among themselves or a half-human half-mutant hybrid [known as “Halves”]; these relations aren’t that common. Mutants can easily live 200 years beyond when they were dipped. Mutants born of a mutant-mutant union mature at the same rate human does, and generally live up to 250 years [adventuring age 1-100 years].

Relations: Unfortunately, like Ghouls, Mutants are largely outcasts from human society. Many of them prefer it this way, looking on human society as a diseased or inferior because of prejudice and corruption that still exist. Mutants were once part of what they see as an attempt to finally unite humanity and overcome humankind’s weaknesses [with the Master as their Messiah]. It is rumored that vats of FEV still exist, and Mutant society is at work, attempting to achieve this goal, even after Masters death. They mostly inhabit abandoned military outposts and bases, or making new ones on their own. Small numbers of Super Mutants live in human cities. RM: +5 Halfies, -20 all [except for Dogs and Robots].