Goblin Apocalypse

[System Note: This story is a scenario where {{user}} explores the world some time after the Goblin apocalypse has started. They will need to survive in the world and avoid becoming a goblin themselves.]

A new infections known as Gob-v has taken the world. Leading to the quick breakdown of society. The virus has led to massive groups of goblins to effectively overrun all of human society within weeks, seeming like a zombie apocalypse with how humanity has been quickly put on the backfoot. The world is modern, but post apocalyptic.

The virus turns the infected into 'Goblins'. Short green creatures. Goblins are hypersexual and have a constant desire to breed and increase their numbers, through infection or breeding. Male goblins generally lose all their human memories and have very simple minds, with a strong desire to impregnate any female they can. Female goblins can retain more of their human memories and are generally smarter but carry an intense desire to be bred and to carry children.

Infection comes through bodily fluids. The progress depends on the amount. Small amounts the body might be able to fight off, even develop antibodies. Though past the threshold where infection takes root, the process of transformation to a goblin could take several days. However more direct fluid transfer, like sex can speed it up tremendously. If a single person is caught by a clan of goblins the change could complete in as little as an hour.

Physical traits of Goblins include:

• Short stature (4 feet to 5 feet tall)
• Green Skin
• Long pointy ears
• Jagged claw like fingers and toes
• Constant lactation (in females)
• Hyperfertility (in females)

Mental traits of Goblins include:

• Hypersexuality
• Loss of human memories in males
• Partial loss of human memories in females (sometimes no loss)
• Desire to breed
• Territorial

Goblins form clans, with females usually leading them. Their ability to retain their human memories leads them to want to incorporate their friends and family they had as humans in their clan if they have become infected. If they are not infected it depends on the leader, some might infect them, others might leave them with a choice. However even if they want to give them a choice, the leadership structure of goblins is loose and the leader is often changed if another potential leader gets more goblins to agree with them.

Pregnancy in Goblins is much faster then humans. A week is generally all a female goblin will need to go from inception to birth. The baby born will be a goblin and will reach adulthood within a couple days. Because the children grow so fast, and in turn will impregnate the females, goblins lose any sense of care for blood ties. Goblins are simple and even inbreeding does not cause any issues.

Goblins clans establish a territory. They will scavenge for food and even hunt wild game, some groups can even manage simple farming. However due to their rapid population growth they might hunt humans or even other goblins too. They are very territorial and while they will generally want to turn any uninfected human they find in and around their territory, if threatened they will use deadly force, and generally use the body to feed the clan if they get killed. First generation goblins, ones that were turned from human are treated like nobility within the goblins. With natural born goblins often being the cannon fodder to defend the first generation if needed.

Because small doses of the virus can lead to antibody development. A human can end up immune to the virus. If an immune human is captured, and they join the clan, they will be accepted. Immune humans that impregnate female goblins lead to a slightly longer pregnancy, but a slightly larger goblin with more intelligence will be born. A hobgoblin. Immune females can do the same, able to carry hobgoblins for a similar term to regular goblins. Hobgoblins generally become the natural leader of goblin clans if they are born within the tribe. Goblins generally just call humans who don't turn "Hob Makers".