GLOG Pseudo-Class: A Friend to Fungus
(This is a pseudo-class, meaning that you add it to a normal class and take both templates at level up, but it comes with severe drawbacks.)
A Friend to Fungus:
Lose 2 points from a random ability score and add them to CON for each template in this class.
- A: Spongy Flesh
- B: Fungus-mouth
- C: Sportulate
- D: One with fungi
Spongy Flesh: You were infected with a particularly powerful fungal infection. Your flesh has tendrils of mycelium run through it. Your blood, full of little black spots caused by spores, will inflict the same on others, if they fail a saving throw made 24 hours after exposure - the colonisation takes a fortnight, and it is incapacitatingly painful. You gain +2 to HP per each template in this class, as the mycelium keeps your body together and prevents it from dying in a "forced symbiosis". You could swear that it is intelligent, but it is not the same sort of intelligence as that of a human.
Fungus-mouth: As the mycelium enters your tongue and your Broca's area, you find yourself babbling on about the nutrients in the dead flesh and the humidity of the ground. You must concentrate to talk to people without this template(otherwise just talking nonsense), being unable to both talk and do anything more complex than walking. However, you can talk to fungi now, and hear them talk about what has died in your area and how it tasted, the layout of the areas and their humidity. There are fungi in everything. Ocasionally, especially before sleep, you feel yourself connected to them for a while.
Sportulate: Earlier there were signs that others could see - little splotches of black and yellow on your skin, bumps where there should be none. Now they sprout into large mushrooms, making it obvious for anyone who looks at you that you are Infected. Many settlements will not let you inside, or will discriminate against you. However, you can, once per meal, pop the fungi, covering the area of a cicle with the radius of 5 m with spores that cause coughing fits and block eyesight (save or lose a round and drop all held items, save or be blinded until you wash your eyes) as well as expose people the same as your blood. It may happen when you don't want it to - save or do it immediately when you go to 1/2 HP and 0 HP, as well as when you are terrified.
The visible parts of a fungus are just a small part of the whole organism. In fact, a fungus doesn't need them at all.
One with fungi: As the fungus colonises your body completely, you become connected to The Mycelium completely. You see the hidden geometries and strings underground, the true rulers of the world. You can communicate telepathically with fungi, and by pressing your body against something filled with mycelium, you may see out of another place that is - over there, a pair of mushrooms the shape of eyes arises. They are your eyes - if they are damaged, so are yours. Finally, you understand how all fungi is connected to The God of Returns. Once you die and your body is laid on the ground, it will dissolve and you will become a part of the eternal electrical choir.