Lake Martinz

Lake Martinz is a 300 meter wide body of water fed by Park Lake in the ruins of Pitz Burke. Lake Martinz is surrounded by busted chemical tanks and pipelines causing the animals here to be oddly mutated. It populated by Cren Tosh, Erts, Ert Teldons, Keeshin, some Barl Naps, and Gators though any one swimming in, eating the animals here, or drinking the water will be exposed to intensity 3 radiation and intensity 6 poison. Yet despite this a colony of Menarls (roughly 3 families) live here though they all have an odd number of limbs with 1 out of every 4 Menarls having a physical or mental defect not found in the Menarl population as a whole. They believe the lake to have bestowed them with a gift, that being that they 'taste foul'. Like the fish of the lake this is true, the three families where someone to eat one of them would in fact poison and irradiate the offender. The Hawkoid population of the surrounding ruins share an equal animosity with the Menarls. The two use to mutually prey upon one another for food with bands of Hawkoids being able to overpower a lone Menarl but since gaining this gift the Menarls of the lake are no longer hunted. Instead they are simply slain as monsters and their bodies left to rot where they where slain with only the Menarls now preying upon the Hawkoid population. The three families know better than to eat the other animals of the lake and thus must venture away from the lake to hunt. Menarl hunters can be found looking for prey in the ruins around Lake Martinz but do not cross the Hio River nor hunt around Park Lake as it's waters have the same effects as Lake Martinz of which it is connected to. The three families have a kind of back water hospitality and while they will not prey upon Pure Strain Humans nor Humanoids they still see their fellow mutant animals as potential game- especially in seasons when the local Hawkoid population dwindles or migrates to other parts of the city. They get a little offended when invitations to their homes are rejected though it is the healthiest option as entering the waters (the homes are accessed by underwater tunnels along the lake's shore) exposes one to the lake's radiation and poison. There is a 65% chance at any time that a child in the family will be sick with the older population believing that the lake will either accept them or reject them or for some parents that the child will get past it as they did in their youth. There is a 40% chance on any given day of an adult having the same sickness brought on by the radiation and poison. They have no interest in leaving the lake and will not take kindly to such suggestion even while it's in their best interest.
Category:Gamma World