The mire (Mirelurk Hunter)
(For correspondence and updates, please go to : https://ricebowl70.blogspot.com/2025/08/updates.html ) You were always shocked by just how much wildlife seemed to have survived the bombs dropping, especially as the wasteland itself had become barren of anything that was green which you imagined should have killed almost everything. Cockroaches had survived which you had expected, although you didn’t expect them to be as large as they were, but you hadn’t expected cattle to survive even in their highly radiated form of the Brahmin and you especially didn’t expect bears to survive as the Yao-guai. You’d found out that even what was left of the rivers and oceans had managed to keep life going in the form of the mirelurks which were some form of crustacean before they mutated into being human sized monsters that could rip apart a human being if it got you in its claws. That wasn’t even talking about the queen who was as large as a building and could even give a power armor use...