Mutation System

Mutations: Abilities your body possess that are beyond the simple old-fashioned human being from old times. No one really knows how, but nowadays, most life forms have some degree of mutation that help them survive the harshness of the post-apocalyptic world.

However, both in humans and animals, the rate of spontaneous abortions is very high, as also are the children that are born dead, and the ones that are dead within a day or less. Mutations are random at first, and hereditary afterwards. While some are good and helpful, others are useless deformities and abnormalities that may or may not be compatible with life. The mutations that give you more trouble than benefit are called Aberrations.

Mutations come from alterations in your Genome, and each specific mutation is associated with some specific altered genes. If you have the genes for a specific mutation, you might also have the abilities that come with it. You may have the genes for a specific mutation, but that doesn't mean the mutation is manifested in the body (as an Expressed Mutation), the genes might be silent (a Repressed Mutation.

Creatures and people inherit their mutations from their parents, or develop them when the embryo is forming. As it was said before, you may have "silent" mutations in your genome, that you don't know you have. These might express themselves spontaneously through Stress Induction. Through this mechanism, you may also develop entirely new mutations that you dindn't have in your Genome, when exposed to radiation, for example.

This system is composed by the following articles:

• Genome.
• Expressed Mutation.
• Repressed Mutation.
• Mutation Supression.
• Aberrations.
• Stress Induction.
• Gene Points.
• Genetic Threshold.
• Aberration Points.
• Genetic Meltdown Point.