Community:Solomon's Speculations



Welcome to Solomon's Speculations. A place for me, Solomon, to ponder the mysteries of the world. Join me, as I theorize and speculate on the world around me, and unravel the mysteries of the wasteland.

Ghouls and feralization
Many scholars and scribes have long pondered the nature of ghouls, how they continue to survive and thrive in the harsh conditions of the American Wasteland. They can regenerate damage by absorbing radiation and possibly even sustain themselves off of it completely. Conflicting reports have come in as to whether or not ghouls need to eat, sleep or even breathe air and expunge waste. Some say they don't age on top of all of that too! The nature of ghouls seems to baffle science and the very laws of nature that we believe governs all existence.

But these seemingly super beings have one fatal flaw. They can "go feral", lose their minds and wander the wastes like packs of zombies from those old monster holotapes, tearing apart man and beast alike to feast on their flesh, and nobody can agree on what causes this to happen. Is it come form of degenerating disease that comes with the ghoulification process? A side effect from absorbing too much radiation too quickly? Simple random chance?

Nay I say! The true feralization factor is... Motivation! Think about it, the reason there are so many hordes of these roving feral ghouls is because they are all pre-war, people who were at "sweet spots" in the blast waves of the nuclear bombs that tore America apart, not close enough to be killed outright by the detonation but not far enough away to be killed by a slow radiation poisoning, just far enough away to have their DNA twisted by the absorption of a perfect cocktail of rads to survive such horror, and be completely broken by what they experienced, their minds simply cease to function and they fall back on their base instincts, find a group or "tribe" like them, find shelter and find food.