[quote=“secretfire, post:6, topic:8785”]While I agree that ‘metal skin’ may not be the most appropriate, I think there’s an angle to this everyone is failing to consider. The mutations are not literally x-men style mutations, its people basically changing due to exposure to the from another dimension thats terraforming our planet and universe, right?
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Nah, just exposure won’t change you in any way except for making you a zombie when you die (NYI).
To mutate, you need an energy source and optionally a mutation focus. Radiation, if radmutations are on, provides energy source, while mutagens and serums provide energy or both it and the focus (with specialized ones). Thus you’re not getting anything Lovecraftian, the Blob is working solely on the things it can get on Earth.
And it’s working in three dimensions on your actual body, on your body mass and your biology, so it (or Mycus) isn’t going to do anything crossdimensional or switch the base elements, so silicon or methane is out. Lack of tapeworm and the like mutation line is probably part inefficiency of these lifeforms and part squick factor, though.
If mi-gos, shoggoths, and the like have something that can work as mutation focus, you theoretically can use them to mutate. But I’ve no idea if they do!
Also, you’re confusing what the Bulk is. It’s not some dimension you can “see” or “detect” things through, it’s the space where all realities are. How good would you be at seeing things on Earth’s surface if you were a million miles away from it? Now imagine the same, except you’re million miles equivalent from our universe, from absolutely anything in it.
