Essence ofEnhancing Your Stick

By imbibing this Essence (loosely based on +99 Wooden Stick), you gain the following:

• You have the power to enhance any object up to 99 times. Each time the effectiveness of any of its inherent characteristics you want are doubled. A simple stick you conceptualize as a "weapon" might have its durability and striking force buffed, while a computer's target qualities might be its processing speed and energy efficiency. The other aspects stay the same, as much as can be while still accommodating the buffs.

• You can target any set of qualities each time you enhance something, but it is set at the time of buffing. So if you enhance the speed and durability for a car separately, you will have wasted 2 uses while only doubling each quality. If you had chosen both qualities each time, two uses would have quadrupled (2^2) the speed and durability instead. You cannot "shift" what is enhanced after the fact.

• You can do this to multiple objects, but you cannot apply it more than 99 times to the same one. If it has been transformed or destroyed enough to count as a completely different thing, then any buffs stop working. This is based on your subconscious recognition, so you cannot try to argue technicalities if it goes against that.

• Pieces removed from the main body of the enhanced object may or may not also retain their buffs, depending on what you want at the time. You must still recognize that the overall "object" it was taken from still "exists" at the time of removal. Buffs still carry over even if the main body is later destroyed.

• The enhancement is conceptual in nature, reinforcing the purpose of existence you imagine for it rather than literally affecting its physical structure. Its operation will seem anomalous (acting via fiat) to anyone putting it under enough scientific scrutiny.

• You can rescind any number of buffs for any qualities you want with a though. This does not refund an enhancement use.