Strained Metabolism

Your body’s overclocked physiology requires larger-than-usual amounts of nourishment, leaving you weakened when it kicks in mid-combat.

Mild Backlash Your metabolism immediately burns through your body’s energy stores, making you Enfeebled 1 and Clumsy 1 until you take a bite of food (which usually requires 2 Interact actions: one to retrieve the food and another to consume it).

Moderate Backlash Ravenous hunger wracks your body. You are enfeebled 1, clumsy 1, and Fatigued until you can eat a full meal, which requires at least 10 minutes.

Severe Backlash The strain on your body is truly incapacitating. You become Sickened 2 as nausea wracks you, and you are also enfeebled 1 and clumsy 1 until you can eat a full meal (which requires you to no longer be sickened). You are fatigued until you can get a full night’s rest.