Humanoid Mutations
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This file will be used to describe the humanoid mutants encountered by Ryan Cawdor and his friends as they travel the radiation blasted realm known as the Deathlands.
Scale: A mutant man, the leader of a small band of
mutants and Stickies who try to attack, but are beaten off by Traders men. Physically, he has greenish skin
which is slightly scaled. His lips are thick, covering an
unusually wide mouth. Overly large eyes, black rimmed and deeply
hollowed. His nose is nothing more than a slight bulge above the
mouth, with two tiny orifices. Because of this, his sense of
smell is nearly non existent. He has unusually long arms and
legs, and exceptional hearing.
Stickies: A race of humanoid mutants that appeared
about twenty years before. It seems the man known as the Magus,
or the Warlock may have had something to do with their creation.
These creatures have huge eyes, two tiny nostrils in moist flabby flesh, no mouth or ears and are totally hairless. They have suckers on their hands and feet which exude glutinous ooze which adds to the gripping power. They are totally savage and seem to have an unusual love for fire and explosions. To make matters worse, they are incredibly tough to kill. Wounds to the torso are pretty much ignored, and the only sure fire way to kill one of these creatures is by shooting it in the head. Stickies are also known to be cannibalistic, as well as they sometimes carry really hideous diseases.
There are at least two other types of Stickies known to exist.
Krysty Wroth: She is also a mutant.
Dwarves: Ryan is attacked by a band of small,
deformed dwarves as he exits the Alaskan Redoubt. They appear to have slit eyes. One had incredibly
long, monkey like arms, while the another had a third, residual
leg sprouting from its thigh. They seemed to be able to
communicate only in grunts.
Aliev, the mutant tracker working for Major Zimyanin. Most of his lower jaw is missing. Where
the nose should have been, there was only a large hole fringed
with damp pink tissue akin to rotting lace. The mouth gaped with
a few yellow teeth jutting crookedly from his upper jaw. He had
no way of closing his mouth, and his food had to be sucked into
his gullet.
Across the dark cavern of his nasal orifice, Aliev had a veil of incredibly thin crumpled skin. It moved raggedly in and out in time with his breathing. Even with the obvious deformity, his sense of smell is unbelievable. He is Major Zimyanin’s best tracker. Needless to say, because he is missing his lower jaw, he is unable to speak.
Swampies: Ryan and his band first encounter these
mutants after leaving the swamp wag they stole and were making their way on foot.
Physically, Swampies are incredibly stocky. They are usually no taller than 5’.2" in height, but weight in excess of 220 pounds. Most swampies possess African American features, with flattened noses and thick lips. Their hair is short and curly and comes in all shades of colour, from black to white, red to yellow. The eyes protrude slightly, and are usually surrounded by ritualistic scaring. They do not have either fingernails or toenails.
The most unusual feature of the swampies is the fact that they possess double sets of organs. Two hearts, four lungs, two stomachs, etc. This makes them very tough to kill. They have gained the nickname : Les morts-vivants. Or the living dead.
Swampies use clothing and carry small crossbows (the bolts are usually poisoned), and large knives.
Dwarves: When Ryan’s band open the gateway they
encounter a diminutive mutant. It seems that the redoubt is home
to a band of these mutants.
The mutant is only about 5 feet tall, and appeared to be about 30 years old. His face was flat and had a coppery tone to it. The lips were narrow, and barely covered long curved teeth. The nails on the hands were long and twisted, like horn.
The mutant wore animal skins, carried a long, collapsible spear, and a primitive flintlock rifle.
Ryan and the band come across a tiny ville filled
with mutants. As usual, the mutants were all under five feet
tall. They were heavily muscled, and had shaggy hair which hung
over their foreheads. The skin was coarse and slightly scaled.
Their jaws jutted out, and their language consisted mainly of
grunts. They wore jerkins and breeches of sack cloth dyed deep
green and russet yellow.
After pulling ashore for the night, the band is
attacked by a group of a dozen Stickies. These Stickies had
vulpine teeth, and cold, totally emotionless eyes, like a sharks.
They have suction pads on their webbed hands and feet, allowing
them to cling to walls like a fly. This breed of Stickies have no
ears.
This is the second of three different breeds of Stickies.
While travelling on the Hudson river through what
used to be the ruins of New York, Ryan is attacked by an
amphibious mutant. The mutie had really long webbed fingers with
five knuckles and no nails. The skin was creased and cold and
slippery. The mutants jaw protruded eighteen inches past its
face, just below the gaping holes of its nostrils. It had no
forehead, the naked bones of its skull angling back in pitted
ridges. The ears were tiny, pinned to the side of the hairless
head. Its eyes were narrow protected by hoods of leathery tissue.
It had row upon row of sharp, overlapping fangs. Ryan barely
managed to fight off the creature. When it was killed it spoke in
an oddly normal voice, considering how mutated it was.
Upon re-entering the redoubt located near the Mohawk
river, the group of friends are surprised to discover that a band
of muties had managed to gain entrance to the facility. Not one
of the muties encountered were above five foot six inches in
height. All the mutants encountered were male. The top of their
heads were shaved clean, and had a shaggy fringe of hair. Several
of the muties suffered from multi digits. One had eleven
vestigial fingers and three thumbs on the right hand, and nearly
as many as many on the left.
The town of Consequence was destroyed during the war
by a nuclear weapon. The descendants of the survivors come to see
Ryan and his band late one night. Every one of the muties that
attacked were hideously deformed. The first one was over seven
feet tall, with shoulders more than three feet wide. It had a
lidless eye in the middle of its left cheek. It had no nose, just
a semi circular hole with a fringe of pink tendrils. It was
missing its lower jaw and had jagged stumps protruding from the
rear of its upper jaw. It had several smaller hands growing from
its side, growing progressively smaller. It left a trail of green
slime as it moved. Another mutie had a totally hairless skull
that was covered in small pink or white tendrils which looked
like worms or maggots. A female mutie had a cluster of breasts
hanging from its chest, while another had arms so long they
dragged on the ground as it walked. After losing no less than
seven to Ryan's band, the muties return to their caves, never to
venture near the ruined ville again. They did take their dead
with them to eat however.
After killing an old Russian woman, Ryan and J.B.
find her hut. They raid it for food and clothing. They encounter
her huge mutant son. He was over eight feet tall and weighed
easily over seven hundred pounds. His tiny eyes were nearly
hidden by the puffy fat of his face. His nose was nothing more
than a gaping hole in the center of his face. He had straggly
blond hair and his ears were mutilated pieces of gristle. He had
a downy mustache and beard. It took over five rounds from Ryan's
SIG Sauer to kill the mutie.
Creatures known as forest ghouls are said to haunt
the forests around Moscow. Little is known about these creatures
other than the fact that they had long tongues that rotated like
steel drills and could enter any opening in a body to drain away
the fluids.
Ryan's dentist was a little man who's hands had only
a single finger and a thumb, very similar to a crabs pincher. The
two digits were incredibly thick and strong.
The second redoubt that Ryan and his friends arrive
in is filled with Troggies. These muties were naked and not a
single one stood above five foot two. Physically they were thin
and weak, and their bodies actually seemed to have an odd
shimmering phosphorescence to them. They were completely hairless
and had no visible genitals. The mutant's mouth's were lipless,
and had a single row of blunted teeth. The ears were quite large.
The nose barely protruded from the cheeks. The creature's eyes
were huge and bulbous. The iris's were colour less and there was
no sign of a pupil. The mutant's were easy to kill, but there
were simply to many of them and the group was forced to make a
third jump.
The ville of Markland has been at war with another ville of
mutants for years. During the time Ryan and his friends are with
the villagers, they are attacked twice. One of the muties was
over six feet tall. It's left hand was nothing more than a paddle
that protruded from it's shoulder and had at least two more
residual hands growing from it's torso. One of it's feet was more
like a cloven hoof than a regular foot. The mutant attackers
showed a variety of mutations. No eye's or noses, or having them
in the wrong location, extra limbs, and so forth.
The mutants known
as Scabbies are mentioned for the first time. They suffer from
the same skin disorders as their ancestors who managed to survive
the war. Somehow the diseases were handed down from generation to
generation. They suffer from dermoid cysts, rodent ulcers,
keloids, lipomata, epitheliomata, acne, psoriasis and all types
of rashes. Due to the condition of their skin, they very rarely
wear clothing as it can be too painful for them. Other than the
skin disorders, they appear to be normal humans.
Scalies. These
mutants are encountered for the first time in the ruins of New
York city. There is a huge band of them living on the southern
portion of what's left of Manhattan. No less than five hundred of
the mutants are part of a huge, organised gang who work as
slavers. They are olive green in colour and have overlapping
scales covering their skin. The hands have long fingers ending in
wicked claws. The face is vaguely reptilian with an elongated jaw
and slit like nose, as well as hooded eyes. The mouth is filled
with a double row sharp teeth and they have long sinuous tongues.
Trackies. These mutants live deep in the sulphur
mines controlled by Gregori Zimyanin. They occasionally kill the slave miners, but
generally leave the people alone. Ryan encounters these creatures
twice while trying to locate and rescue his son. The first time
is when he and Kate Webb are caught in their fish net. The second time is
when they are travelling through the tunnels and encounter a
total of thirteen and Ryan kills them all using his hand gun.
None of the muties stand taller than five feet in height. The
creatures were stocky and wore simple furs for clothing. Except
for a few strands of hair, the mutants were totally bald. The
ears were quite large and set further back on the skull than a
normal humans. They had no true nose, just a small hole. There
mouths hung open, and for the most part were toothless, except
for a few, uneven jagged teeth. The eyes appeared to be lidless,
and seemed to protrude from the skulls. The skin was a deathly
shade of white, but seemed to have a greenish tinge to it.
Another version of the Stickies were introduced in
this novel. These Stickies were far more organised, intelligent
and cleaner than those encountered in the past novels. They were
led by a stickie named Charlie who made sure they didn't act like their savage
brothers. He ran a tight community and wouldn't allow any
transgression to go unpunished. Unlike the other Stickies
encountered, these mutants had hair, and noses, and were easier
to kill than the others fought throughout the series.
While staying in the ruins of an old mansion they are
attacked by several dozen mutants. They appear to be deformed,
like so many of the mutants encountered in the Deathlands. One
they saw was hunched over and had a thin, lipless mouth. It was
dressed in a variety of rags and furs. Very little in the way of
description is available.
The Midnites. This is a huge gang of female mutants lead by a
woman named Billy
who live below the ruins of Chicago. Other than very pale skin
and protruding eyes, these mutants appear to be almost normal.
They are also nocturnal and are able to see quite well in the
dark.
Krysty and Ryan are exploring a beautifully preserved
hotel that they found hidden in the dunes in the Florida Keys.
While looking over the building, they encounter a group of
bizarre humanoid mutants. It was around seven feet in height had
very broad shoulders, a narrow stomach and muscular hips. It's
flesh was scaled and it had webbing spread between it's fingers
and toes. The mutants had huge goggling eyes and a crest of skin
that protruded along the top of the skull, much like the dorsal
fin of a whale. It's lower jaw was underslung and filled with
needle sharp teeth. Its arms were short and stumpy, only about
half the length of a normal human's. The hands had curved talons,
which looked strong enough to cut a basking shark.When they
spoke, it was a strange gobbling noise, almost like a turkey
under water.
A group of ghouls had managed to find their way into
the redoubt located in Kansas. Here they had been living for
several weeks, feasting off the preserved corpses of those who
died during the Skydark. The eyes appeared as if they are melting
in the watery sockets. The whites were a muddy pink and the
pupils were nearly non existent. The skin was puckered and soft,
and was pitted with open sores. They were also very slow, but
could still be dangerous in large numbers.
Trader and Abe
kill a crazy naked woman while trying to get away from a group of
murderous revenge hungry posse men. She had two mutie children
which had elongated skulls, nearly coming to a tapered point, and
their eyes were stretched to slits.
Ryan is lulled to
sleep during his watch while in the ruins of Seattle. He awakens
just in time to see a small band of muties ready to feast on the
group. His shout of anger and fear awaken the party and a fight
begins. It doesn't take long for them to gain the upper hand. The
mutants had skin as white as snow. Broad flat nose's and eyes
that glowed red in the dim lamp light. They also had elongated
needle like canine teeth. The mutant's tongue was forked as well.
The mutants were quite literally blood drinkers, vampires.
Inside the
Crichton institute, the scientists created several mutants. One
was a hermaphrodite, with a thin veil of lace like skin over it's
eyes, no nose and a thin lipless circular mouth. It didn't have
any arms, just a row of dwarfish fingers down the sides of its
body. Another mutant was a dwarf male, on a quarter of its adult
size. It had a forked tongue, and no eyes. Another was a woman
who appeared to have been cut in half. Her body was cut
diagonally from the left armpit to the top of her right thigh.
But there was no scarring. Another mutant was a huge harry man.
He had paws with yellow claws instead of hands, and only one eye.
His mind was totally gone. The last mutant was a two headed
woman. This woman was released by Ryan and Trader, so she could
help them take out the scientists and rescue the others. She was
killed by a sec man.
The ruins of
Washington have become home to many mutants, but the most
prevalent seem to be 'Ghoulies'. They have pallid skin which is
tinted bluish. It's said that they actually glow in the dark
because of this. Their eyes are large and protruding and their
mouths are filled with sharp teeth, as well as a reptillian
tongue.
Just after leaving
the redoubt the group are attacked by a group of dirty, naked
muties. They looked like a cross breed of scabbies and swampies.
Most had sores all over their bodies, and quite a few had no
teeth. They were all quite short, as seems to be the norm for
mutants in the Deathlands, and were poor tactical fighters,
constantly getting in each others way. They were wiped out
without difficulty.
After being caught
in a bad rain storm the group try to get some rest. Ryan wakes up
to see himself staring into the hideous face of a muddie. The
face was like that of a hideous carnival mask. All the features
stretched, reshaped and warped. The muties hair was matted and
stringy, almost like coils of wire. It had a hole where the nose
would have been and a slit of a mouth, showing three rows of
serrated teeth. The fingers end in sharp tearing claws, and not
one of the mutants are over four feet in height. They also seem
to be very strong.
Inside the Mount
Rushmore facility Mildred encounters a strange, lonely mutant
that calls itself Uni. It is sexless when she first encounters
it, but can become male or female at will. It doesn't harm her,
and actually helps her find her way out of it's home into the
main portion of the redoubt, where the cooling machinery is
located. She tells the mutant to go back to it's home so it's
safe when she damages the machinery.
Below the ville of
Wildroot in a huge nutrient filled tank is a genetically
engineered plant that can not only speak, but is slightly
psionic. It also contained it's creator DNA, and was hooked up to
the computer, in total control over the release of the plague
it's creator wished to release into the world. The creature was
made up of the same material as the living vines that surrounded
the ville, and it could attack using the same thorn and poison.
The creature was finally killed when Ryan used Plastic explosives
to rupture a tank full of liquid nitrogen.
Another sub group
of Stickies. These are very similar to the strain first
encountered in Pilgrimage to Hell. The biggest difference is that
these mutants are true hermaphrodites, capable of both
impregnating, and being impregnated. They are incredibly fast
breeders and mature at an accelerated rate.
Kaa. This huge
seven foot tall mutant had patches of dark brown flesh over his
body. He had a third pure white eye in the centre of his
forehead. When he opened the eye he could communicate
telepathically with mutants, especially those of the Stickie
genotype. The huge mutant could read and had a grand plan to
reshape the Deathlands, for mutants only. He really wasn't
killed. He is caught in a constant loop in the Cerberus
cyberspace.
Near King's Point,
GA is a small commune. The people of the commune live together in
peace and harmony with a group of aquatic humanoid mutants who
they dubbed dwellers. These friendly mutants. The mutant had huge
oval eyes that were white. A pair of vertical slits for a nose,
and a half moon shaped mouth with the corners turned downwards.
The lips were pencil thin and dark purple. The skin on it's face
appeared to be peeling in several locations, revealing new flesh
that appeared to be shiny and wet, not dry. They are not true
water breathers, but can stay underwater for a long period of
time. The flesh is also covered in scale like growths, and their
hands are clawed. Under water, they are very strong and agile,
but somewhat clumsy on land. Speech is very difficult for them,
but they can communicate with elaborate hand signals, as well as
body and facial language.
On the Island
nation of Puerto Rico a new menace has re appeared after nearly
one hundred years of absence. The mutants known as the Chupacabras. These beasts were originally from the
future and were captured by the military and had genetic samples
taken so that they could clone their own copies of the mutants. A
time Paradox was created by this. The creature stood on a pair of
muscular hind legs and was covered with coarse black hair. It had
spines growing out of it's back and it's hands were wickedly
clawed. The arms were stubby and partially concealed by bat like
wings. Its head was oval shaped and had a long pointed chin. Huge
eyes covered the upper half of its head and rested above two
nasal slits. It's mouth is filled with jagged fangs. The
creatures use it's spines and movement to try and hypnotise it's
prey. As for their intelligence, probably just over an animals.
In the ruins of Idaho Falls Ryan
and his band as well as the Baron's men who are attacking the coldhearts come
under attack by a group of Ghoulies. They are rad damaged, having
scarring, scabs and tumors. They are dressed in rags and are filthy. The
mutants were cannibals and some where monstrous in size. All dangerous, if not
just plain primitive.
Created on 07/14/97
Updated on 07/11/99