Ghost People

Ghost People are creatures found in the Sierra Madre

Background
Ghost People are inhabitants of the Sierra Madre, impacted by the Cloud, a combination of corrosive rust-like toxins. They wear hazmat suits and are the only ones able to walk in and out of the Cloud unharmed.

The Ghost People originate from construction workers that worked on the Sierra Madre Villa before the war. During construction, a strange gas that would evolve into the Cloud began leaking from the pipes and hospitalized a worker with severe lung and tissue damage and further progress was called off until protective gear could be issued.

Hazmat suits designed specially in Big MT arrived to protect against the noxious gas. The gas leak itself was also created at Big MT, and with the hazmat suits being an "experiment within an experiment." The hazmat suits were bulky, difficult to speak through and grew stiff with use. The locking mechanisms would quickly corrode when in contact with the Cloud, to the point where the hazmat suit had to be cut open with a cosmic knife, yet the suits still did not provide proper protection from the poisonous gas.

Dean Domino questions whether being "alive" applies to the Ghost People, and states there are hordes of them living under the Sierra Madre's streets, comparing it to a hornet's nest. Domino comments that they collect anywhere in the Sierra Madre away from holograms.

Their most common hunting grounds are Salida and Puesta del Sol, especially in areas thick with the Cloud. They die if their limbs are dismembered. Dog explains that they have pockets of pressurized gas inside them and taste like plastic and copper.

Gameplay
All Ghost People are hostile to the Courier. Crippling a limb while a ghost person is conscious will dismember the limb, killing them even if the crippling attack does not reduce their health to 0. The Bloody Mess perk increases the chance of dismemberment with standard firearms.

After the dialogue path with Dog starting with the phrase "I watched you devour one of the ghost people," Dog will give the Courier the Ghost Hunter perk, allowing one to kill Ghost People without Dog or chopping off their limbs.

Variants
Each variant has six levels of difficulty. Each level has identical statistics except for level and health.

Appearances
Ghost People appear

Sounds
Ghost People breathe loop