Insect Rebirth

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Insect rebirth: [Minor] by Iczer

'I didn't mean to bug you man'

The character can enter a trance while injured, which in turn summons swarms of bugs that crawl over the character and transfer their own body mass to the character. The bugs arrive at their own pace (typically start within 4D6 minutes) and cover the character in a cocoon of their own flesh. While the character remains in the trance, the bugs continue to come, and the character heals 6D6 HP or SDC every hour. In addition, the character will regrow burnt skin, lost fingers, teeth, soft tissue and even eyes at a rate of 1 part per hour. When finished, the character arises from the dessicated husks of the insect corpses (roughly speaking, every 5 points of damage healed results in 1 pound of insect corpses.
Oddly enough, the character can generate a swarm of bugs from his own flesh, essentially reversing the process. Such a swarm is considered a blinding, itching or biting swarm and functions much like mentally control insects (ability #3 Control Insects and arachnids Page 261 HU2). The creation of such a swarm requires the character to take 4D6 damage from his own flesh.