Essence of theBorderlands Gun Wizard

This bright glowing purple essence tastes like EXPLOSIONS!

• You get a new body, sculpted according to your preferences, and an opportunity to fix any health issues you have.

• Your new body is peak human, and will maintain this as long as you consume enough calories. It slowly regenerates completely and accurately, healing any injuries. It also has fewer health and hygiene concerns.

• You gain the training and instincts to use any gun perfectly as a weapon. You can hit headshots reliably with sniper rifles from kilometers away, make snap shots with pistols, and everything in between. You can handle jams, misfires, and other issues like you'd been drilling for centuries.

• You have an unlimited and perfect memory. It is immune to cognitohazards and cannot be tampered with. Your working memory and ability hold different concepts in your mind at once expands the more knowledge you have.

• You are immune to mind control, mind manipulation, unwanted mind reading, and body control.

• You gain knowledge of all sorts of exotic, high-performance, and esoteric technologies, all in the form of studying how they relate to personal firearms, aka guns. These go from concealable holdout pistols to rocket launchers and recoilless rifles You also gain many blueprints of guns using these technologies. These guns have various odd technologies, for example getting more accurate as they fire, detonating in an ice ball that freezes people solid, or being reloaded by being chucked at the enemy and reforming in your hands.

• This knowledge is far easier to use when designing guns, as you find that the complexity and number of things to consider count far less. An energy bazooka with 500 unique energy components and 200 unique circuits running thousands of lines of code each is approximately as complex as a single line segment to you.

• Likewise, you learn best when studying guns. Learning how personal weapons work is easy for you. Starting on the abstract technology that the weapons are based from might be difficult and take years, but you can learn the whys of a weapon working in a single lesson. You are also skilled at reverse-engineering weapons, making amazing leaps in intuition and understanding as you study gun specimens. When disassembling a weapon, you are guaranteed to know how to strip and reassemble it blind by the time you're done taking it apart.

• When constructing guns, you are able to cheat resource requirements. In your hands, undoubtedly inferior substitutions become precision-crafted components, even becoming exotic materials in order to work. This takes much longer than using the correct materials and tools from the start, but you are able to make a shotgun that shoots swords that explode into more swords, which in turn summon butterflies that are on fire, using nothing but your bare hands and whatever you find around yourself. And large amounts of time.

• You can find ammunition for your guns quite frequently, even when it makes no sense. You could make a gun that uses circular magazines loaded with an exotic matter slurry, and find one in your medicine cabinet.

• Ammunition is also relatively fungible for your guns. Weapons that are similar enough in role can have their ammunition interchanged as easily as grabbing the magazine.

• These benefits are present in lesser form for other forms of weaponry and personal equipment. Your ability to cheat complexity in your mind is reduced to only reducing individual circuits to the complexity of irregular polyhedra, your ability to find power cells for a personal shield is few and far between without good reason, and the other benefits are likewise limited.