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Fallout Ghoul Design Gone Wild? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] teft@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

No they aren’t. FEV mutants were exposed to the Forced Evolutionary Virus which changed them.

Ghouls were exposed to radiation which ghoulified them.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 4 days ago

IIRC you need a specific gene as well, which is why some people ghoulify and some just die from radiation poisoning.