Essence

Essence of Competence

By drinking this abstract bottle, you have gained inspiration, enlightenment and power in one.

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You gain a pool of ever-flowing inspiration, which increases with time but also your accomplishments, flowing faster and faster while also growing more and more potent in its nature. This pool initially may be distributed amongst ten subjects or modifiers per day but within a year of doing even absolutely nothing, will double in both flow and potency. These will all mix together following your desires. These may draw from reality, fiction or may be entirely original, but require some level of quantification and qualification, even if you may draw from counterfactual or incomprehensible sources.

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Subjects are 'bodies of knowledge, skill, training, and/or experience', which may include but are not strictly limited to:

- the arts,

- humanities and sciences,

- direct technological designs and spells,

- careers such as 'lawyer' or 'secret agent',

- counters for opponents, or literally just asking for direct personal information on a person.

These subjects will update in real-time in regard to your level of investment as well as the broadness of the subject.

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Modifiers affect everything you are capable of doing, which may include but is not strictly limited to:

- direct effects such as 'speed', 'efficiency' and 'adaptability',

- methodologies such as 'modular design' or 'security engineering',

- aesthetics which may affect its design and offer more knowledge in certain subjects such as 'solarpunk' offering much in the way of sustainability for technology while also presenting as more 'green',

- or anomalous properties such as 'anti-gravitation' or 'negentropy'.

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Subjects and modifiers are not necessarily separate types, and everything mixes together ideally. Some subjects may modify others ('secret agent' produces spy gadgets with 'charges' put in 'engineering') while some modifiers may offer knowledge ('solarpunk' may grant some designs and knowledge, albeit it will usually do more with other subjects).

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Anomalous effects may be garnered from reaching your limits in a subject/modifier and bypassing it or being specifically requested. These anomalous effects may be simply direct improvements to an aspect or overall usage, entirely new paradigms, and more. A section of reality or the entirety of it may reap the benefit from this, if you wish, allowing others to capitalize on it. These anomalous effects will never endanger your reality, beyond what you consciously desire it to.

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You are in complete control of the black-boxing of your knowledge and effects, ranging from total non-understanding to instant enlightenment. But not only that, you are capable of spreading your knowledge and ability to develop to others, whether only for specific items and/or fields to all of your knowledge and ability. Anything they build upon may be copied for your own usage. This may be retracted at any time and any additional knowledge built on it may be stolen for your own usage.

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You are immune to any cognitohazards, memetics or any hazardous effects that may be present in anything you may enlighten yourself about, as well as unable to infect others with it unless you wish to do so.

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You may control the level of effects within your usage as well as how your subjects and modifiers affect it. You may for instance wish to enjoy the act of creation, and slow down your speed from a 'one-man manufacturing machine' to a 'normal human'. You also gain the capability to suppress your capabilities to any extent you wish though this may never be used against you. This may be used to enjoy things by suppressing your memory of them.

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Your baseline is a peak human physique and mentality, with every aspect of you optimized, unless it would be against your wishes. Your form is idealized to your desire and you may control your ageing, whether to age cosmetically, slowly, in reverse or not at all. You will eventually recover from anything that does not immediately kill you and are immune to diseases and toxins.

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You only require one repetition to engrave something within your muscle memory and may extrapolate entire fields with simply basic knowledge, albeit more will aid you in this endeavour as well as going further beyond.

You also gain a perfect memory with infinite storage, instant recall, perfect indexing, tamper-proofing, and protection from harmful memories. You may improve on your own in any subject or modifier, albeit it will require practice.

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You may convert and transfer information into any computing or viewing device you wish, albeit it must be compatible with it. Whether this is used to hack computers by uploading viral programs, play media or sensory data, or anything else, it will always be optimized and compressed, unless you wish otherwise.