Before the Great War, geckos could be found in warm climates throughout the world. After the cataclysmic nuclear holocaust, they've mutated, and have grown to exceptional size; easily standing as tall as a young human child. Some are thought to have evolved due to their exposure to mutated FEV in the air, leaking out from West Tek research facility, and yet others are thought to have mutated through exposure to other toxic, or irradiated, areas of the wastelands.
Basic Information
Geckos are reptilian in appearance and sport a pair of frills behind their head. Their eyes generally have an orange tint, and their body colors differ greatly depending on the individual gecko type. Most geckos have five fingers, five toes, and have kept their pre-War ability to make chirping sounds in social interactions with each other. Gruff breathing, squaking, and cooing can be heard from time to time in gecko-inhabited areas. Like their pre-War cousins, geckos lack eyelids and tear-ducts and can often be seen using their elongated tounges to lick at their eyes, clearing away dust and small debris. Most regular geckos are peaceful, unthreatening creatures, but if one gecko is attacked, the rest of the pack in the area will quickly converge on the attacker, charging quickly with their mouths open and rapidly attacking with bites and swipes from their clawed hands.
Variants
Golden geckos are beautiful creatures, but all the more deadly nonetheless. They are most often found near areas of toxic waste, which they often seem to ingest, and many believe there is a correlation between golden geckos and radioactive waste.
Fire Gecko
The fire gecko can breathe fire for devastating damage, and are very resilient adversaries, in contrast to their decisively weaker brethren. Unlike other geckos, they cannot be skinned, as their hides are far too mangy and burned to be worth anything. They are immune to fire damage.
Additional Information
Geckos seem ot have no hieracrchical social structure. They have no apparent leader and everyone is seemingly equal in the pack. Some seem to serve as hunters for the pack. Like
deathclaws, they are oviparous, with the eggs typically covered by the father or the mother before the hatching and not laid into a place.
Normal and golden geckos have hides that can be turned into all sorts of useful and attractive clothing items. Dresses, jackets and even armor can be constructed rom their durable pelts after they've been tanned.
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