Through previous experiments from your past, you're able to channel a "parasitic" creature to come forth from your flesh and do your bidding, being able to do many things such as but not excluded to, creating a hard shield, providing a warm and solid full body suit similar to armor, forming a weapon from anywhere on your body, applying a strength boost by integrating itself within your muscle fibers and much more.
However this creature does come with a cost, you'll have to eat at least 2x more than a regular human would (4-6 full meals a day) or also depending on how long you use it in a given day. You'll also be limited to only 3 uses per day, you can push further but you'll be putting more stress on your body and suffer heavy blood and health lost at the 4th and beyond. You can channel the parasite for up to 6 hours total, anymore and you'll suffer the same effects as previously stated. You can imagine each use is worth up to 2 hours, so only using the parasite for an hour will still allow 5 hours worth of time.
Depending on how you use the parasite or how well you are able to conceal the changes, people may become disgusted/horrified at seeing such a monstrosity. Example: boosting the strength in your legs by having the parasite integrate itself between your muscle fibers may alter the pigment, shape and general size of your legs creating a very grotesque form with bulging veins. Humanoids might not take very kindly to that image.
At lower levels you will have much less control over the parasite and most of it's power will remain dormant until you level up. I suggest figuring out your own milestones but I would suggest something like "level 1: only able to control finger sized parts of the parasite. level 5: able to utilize arm sized parts of the parasite. level 10: able to channel through both arms simultaneously..." and so on.
I would also suggest figuring out what boosts you get from certain actions, so maybe integrating it's strength within your muscle fibers might give you a +5 to strength or something. There's too much room for creativity to be able to list what kind of boosts you would get so really it's probably better to make that call yourself. That being said, if you would rather not make that decision yourself then you can always use the modifier I set up instead.
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