be useful This often means the users need special instruments to pre-process their new food before they can digest it For instance, people who are given the power to digest wood still can’t “chew” a solid lump of wood They need to grind it down to sawdust before they can swallow it The fungi’s digestive changes also don’t affect the taste of the new food As a result, victims often try to spice up or modify the food to make it more palatable, with varying degrees of success Finally, the worst effect of this digestive replacement is that the subject typically loses some or all ability to process normal food and will henceforth be poisoned an area with many heavy metals or other toxins, they may be given filtration mechanisms to handle the load, or even to break down likely chemical poisons into carbohydrates and vitamins A group of humans who need to live in the deep forest or mountains for a while who undergo digestive replacement come to lament their condition, considering themselves monstrous rather than the super-beings they were promised they’d become may be given the ability to digest cellulose, allowing GATE them to survive by eating wood chips and leaves Price 75,000 gp; Slot none; Weight 2,500 lbs.; Capacity 100 charges; Usage 10 charges Humans who are sent to a deserted island may be given the power to drink sea water and excrete the salt safely, or perhaps the capacity to digest sand or rock COST The surgery is lengthy and painful, and recovery takes at least a week (the process may be that short due to the fungi’s amazing skill) The materials and surgical supplies cost 350 gp AFTER-EFFEC TS Humanoids who have undergone digestive replacement look slightly different Their body shape may be slightly A gate is a physical item that sits in one place and cannot be moved When a creature passes through the gate, it instantly teleports to a specific other gate that can be anywhere or at any time 10 charges are expended for each creature thus transported, even if they go through at the same instant A gate can be anything from rocks to golden pillars to a house with very precise angles built into its walls and doors Most gates recharge 1d10 charges each day, but a cosmic alignment can recharge it completely distorted, or their skin may become a different color A MIST PROJECTOR person who has been modified to be able to digest and One-handed Medium ranged weapon Price 12,000 gp; Proficiency exotic (firearm); Damage 8d6 cold; Critical —; Range 30 ft.; Weight lbs.; Capacity 2 charges; Usage charge use toxins may take on a cyanotic tint to his skin, a person who eats heavy metals may take on a sort of dull leaden sheen, and so forth 150 by what was once a staple In the end, many people This device of the mi-go expels freezing mist in a cone The fungi normally not change the user’s mouth when fired (a full-round action) Anything within a or teeth, as humans often need to be able to speak to 30-foot cone is frozen over Creatures within take 8d6