[@Paradoxial] Thank you.

To clarify, I didn't want to be a "ghoul" in the [i]Fallout[/i] sense, with incredible longevity, reflexes, hardiness, or whatever. I mostly wanted to riff off the social elements of being hideous, mistrusted, and despised. And I'm willing to take any physiological penalties which come along with that, too.

I'm also willing to collaborate on why that dynamic exists in the first place, like, maybe the Cult of Scales has this superstition going on that the Scrap either accepts a ripper or rejects him; and people who are "rejected" and yet for whatever reason do not die walk some kind of spiritual limbo that makes them not-quite-human anymore, like they cheated the Scavenge God or something. Or ghouls are usually a shoot-on-sight phenomenon and a sentient, peaceful one is incomprehensible to most.

Basically, I wanna be a ghoul more for the interesting roleplay than for any perceptible stat boosts or benefits (preposterous to expect positive mutations from radiation anyway).