Poll: Would you become a Ghoul (fallout)

[BOOM headshot65]

You just wandered into a highly radioactive area by mistake. You have run out of Rad-X and Rad-Away. There is not enough time to escape. Somehow, you know that you will become a Ghoul due to all this radiation. You look down at your belt...and there is your revolver. A though jumps though your head. "Maybe I dont want to be a Ghoul." The only way this will end is by a bullet to the brain, or becoming a Ghoul.

What is your choice?

 

[Vault101]

so suicide or goulification?

I guess I could stick it out as a living corpse for a while...and if that gets too much just go feral and go nuts! probably wont even feel the pain

 

[Vault101]

so suicide or goulification?

I guess I could stick it out as a living corpse for a while...and if that gets too much just go feral and go nuts! probably wont even feel the pain

All ghouls eventually turn feral. Makes life simpler

huh..really?

thats kind of sad....like (what is it?) alzeimers or Dimentia..where you slowly feel your mind degrading

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

Of course I would. I'd rather live for hundreds of years and be ugly than die. Also have you seen them dance?

 

[Vault101]

so suicide or goulification?

I guess I could stick it out as a living corpse for a while...and if that gets too much just go feral and go nuts! probably wont even feel the pain

Well you could just kill yourself as a ghoul if it's starting to become too much. You still have that gun after all.

And that's why I'd go with becoming a ghoul. I can always apply the suicide decision later, and I have to say the idea of an incredibly long lifespan is kind of appealing. I could, I suppose, just cover myself up completely.

...like

spawn? holy shit I could be like SPAWN!! I could be a masked vilgeate badass...well if I cant physically do that I could get augmented with cybernetics or somthing! the possabilites are endless

 

[Vault101]

so suicide or goulification?

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I mentioned spawn bevause the guy has a face like a goul, so first thing that came to mind

and I figured cybernectics because I think aparently gouls are auposed to be kind of "corpsey" as in not that that agile or srong..which some peopel forget (I mean you even have goul rangers in NV though)

 

[Jedoro]

Make me a Ghoul. Imagine how good at gunfighting you could get with an extended lifespan, a priceless skill in the apocalypse.

 

[Vault101]

so suicide or goulification?

I guess I could stick it out as a living corpse for a while...and if that gets too much just go feral and go nuts! probably wont even feel the pain

All ghouls eventually turn feral. Makes life simpler

huh..really?

thats kind of sad....like (what is it?) alzeimers or Dimentia..where you slowly feel your mind degrading

They said it in Fallout 3, something about the radiation causing the ghoulification slowly eating away the brain.

And I think you're thinking of Alzheimer's, which is a form of dementia

huh I figured going feral came from just "going crazy" and being unable to deal with being a ghoul...I mean its no surprise being a corpse you mind might get affected

EDIT: well whatever it is Its sad, I watch a documetry where normal smart people (like this guy being an ex barrister) have to deal with their mind "going" they know its going and theres nothing they can do..its even ahrder on the loved ones

 

[evilneko]

so suicide or goulification?

I guess I could stick it out as a living corpse for a while...and if that gets too much just go feral and go nuts! probably wont even feel the pain

All ghouls eventually turn feral. Makes life simpler

huh..really?

thats kind of sad....like (what is it?) alzeimers or Dimentia..where you slowly feel your mind degrading

They said it in Fallout 3, something about the radiation causing the ghoulification slowly eating away the brain.

And I think you're thinking of Alzheimer's, which is a form of dementia

It's said by a man who canonically hates ghouls, though. So I'd say it's uncertain whether or not all ghouls eventually become feral.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

But...weren't the Ghouls mostly caused by the radiation and heat that came off of the bombs that were dropped in those areas. Radiation alone wouldn't turn you into a conventional ghoul now would it? You'd just be a guy with a shit ton of tumors.

 

[Vault101]

But...weren't the Ghouls mostly caused by the radiation and heat that came off of the bombs that were dropped in those areas. Radiation alone wouldn't turn you into a conventional ghoul now would it? You'd just be a guy with a shit ton of tumors.

there were a whole bunch of NCR gouls in fallout NV that were caused by some bomb..so Im not sure

but then Threedog in Fallout 3 warns about the dangers of radiation, one of which being "ugggh...[i/]Goulification[/i]" so mabye

 

[Hal10k]

But...weren't the Ghouls mostly caused by the radiation and heat that came off of the bombs that were dropped in those areas. Radiation alone wouldn't turn you into a conventional ghoul now would it? You'd just be a guy with a shit ton of tumors.

Pretty much anybody who gets jacked up on radiation has a chance of becoming a ghoul in the Fallout verse. A ghoul NPC in Fallout the first mentions being part of "the first and last generation of ghouls", figuring that the bombs were the only way it could happen, but FO3 and NV both have several NPCs who become ghouls due to exposure to leftover radioactive waste. So presumably the FO1 NPC was retroactively wrong, or at least misinformed.

I could do so much with my life, but I choose this instead.

 

[Terminate421]

NOPE.

I'd prefer to not be a walking corpse for a long time.

 

[BOOM headshot65]

But...weren't the Ghouls mostly caused by the radiation and heat that came off of the bombs that were dropped in those areas. Radiation alone wouldn't turn you into a conventional ghoul now would it? You'd just be a guy with a shit ton of tumors.

Well, there are some people in the games that are implyied to have become Ghouls AFTER the bombs fell, but it is rare. The amount of radiation we are talking about to turn you into a walking corpse yet somehow keep you alive is INSANELY high, to the point few areas would exist in the wasteland, especially since it has been 200 years since the bombs fell and much of the radiation has disapated.. But even then, there is no way to tell weather you will become a ghoul or just drop dead from the radiation. There is actually a character you find dead in NV that had in her jornal that she was trying to become a ghoul.

I just said that you KNOW you are just for the point of the question.

 

[Edible Avatar]

I'd do it......

Then inject myself with deathclaw DNA and get enhanced genetic implants. BOOM. WINNING.

soon, grandma Palmer, very soon, i will get my back sweetroll.....and REVENGE

 

[RicoGrey]

so suicide or goulification?

I guess I could stick it out as a living corpse for a while...and if that gets too much just go feral and go nuts! probably wont even feel the pain

All ghouls eventually turn feral. Makes life simpler

huh..really?

thats kind of sad....like (what is it?) alzeimers or Dimentia..where you slowly feel your mind degrading

They said it in Fallout 3, something about the radiation causing the ghoulification slowly eating away the brain.

And I think you're thinking of Alzheimer's, which is a form of dementia

huh I figured going feral came from just "going crazy" and being unable to deal with being a ghoul...I mean its no surprise being a corpse you mind might get affected

EDIT: well whatever it is Its sad, I watch a documetry where normal smart people (like this guy being an ex barrister) have to deal with their mind "going" they know its going and theres nothing they can do..its even ahrder on the loved ones

Good news on the Alzheimer's front, a drug that is used to treat cancer is showing fantastic promise as a cure for Alzheimers. So far they have only tested it in rats, but it is having a very high success rate. That is, it is reversing Alzheimers nearly completely.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120209144005.htm

 

[ChupathingyX]

so suicide or goulification?

I guess I could stick it out as a living corpse for a while...and if that gets too much just go feral and go nuts! probably wont even feel the pain

All ghouls eventually turn feral. Makes life simpler

I don't think that's actually true considering it was said by someone who not only hates ghouls but is also a Fallout 3 character.

Plus there's Raul who is over two centuries old and shows no signs of going feral.

 

[Freechoice]

huh..really?

thats kind of sad....like (what is it?) alzeimers or Dimentia..where you slowly feel your mind degrading

I found the irony!

Also, you can't use bb code on names that are being quoted. Did not know that.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Ghoulification, Rads will heal you and ferals and mutants won't bother you meaning you can go a lot of places smoothskins can't and it will probably make living in the wastes a lot safer.

WE GONNA BE RICH SCAVENGERS!

celebrate good times COME ON!.

I think I would miss having a nose though, sneezing must be messy.

edit: Oh and not only will radioactive water be good for you but you will be able to sell all that rad ex and radaway.

The more I think about it, the more it sounds like ghoulification is kind of the ultimate Fallout perk xD

 

[Fasckira]

I think I would miss having a nose though, sneezing must be messy.

Missing a nose would probably cut down drastically on the need to sneeze

But yes, ghoulification all the way. I imagine it must be a huge strain emotionally as well though when you look in the mirror and see yourself degrading in such a way but its just one more horror in the wasteland!