Essence ofHypercompetence

By drinking this perfect Essence, you gain the ability to operate at memetic peak performance.

• This Essence grants you Hypercompetence, a level of ability where you can always operate at your absolute peak with trivial ease. You have immense natural talent for anything that you are potentially capable of doing. Likewise, your execution of anything is flawless to the absolute limits of your skill and knowledge, and will not have any fumbles, slips, unforced errors, or anything of the sort. Even your most instantaneous reactions may be undertaken as if you'd had all the time you needed to extensively plan out your next moves.

• Your talent for learning is unparalleled. You comprehend the basics of new skills/techniques/etc. almost immediately upon being exposed to them, and in such a manner as to provide the ideal foundation for eventually mastering all the nuances and complexities of a subject. You may learn any kind of skill, physical or mental, at least as easily as a very young child would learn language skills.

• Your perfection will not be hampered by a weak or imperfect body or mind. At the time you drink this Essence you are cured of any and all physical ailments and disabilities. You are also made aware of any mental illness, disorders, disabilities or other conditions you may be suffering from and may have any or all of them cured at your discretion.

• Your body is now like a perfectly optimized machine. Your muscles simultaneously have the power of a champion weightlifter and the fast-twitch speed of a master martial artist, your speed, agility, and coordination are top of the charts, and your stamina and resilience are downright cinematic. You will require significantly less sustenance or sleep than you normally would. You will retain your health and fitness as if you were constantly practicing clean and healthy living, even if you aren't. Your body and clothes will almost magically shed filth and grime and you will have minimal body odor.

• You also receive a one-time appearance upgrade based on your wishes and idealized self-image, with the exact details of your build and "endowments" being up to you.

• Your mind is similarily optimized, with your intellect being augmented to the highest levels that your species could naturally attain on your birthworld. This includes but is not limited to such things as perceptiveness, reaction time, pattern recognition, and creativity. Your memory is perfect in all respects, although you can still choose to selectively let things fade.

• Your instincts are as hypercompetent as the rest of you. Even when you don't have enough data to base a conclusion on, you'll still be able to just go with your gut feeling and know who to trust and who to avoid, how to sidestep danger, and what you should probably be doing next. With this ability you could easily go through life making the best of all circumstances just by relying on your gut and reacting to what comes. This ability will both rival and allow you to counter even the most potent precognition.

• You also gain an increased capacity for self-awareness and self-reflection. You can clear-headedly process and resolve your guilt or trauma and truly learn from both your successes and your failures, and then use what you've learned to make yourself a wiser, stronger-willed, and generally better person. You are immune to PTSD and unwanted value drift, and can retain an essential 'youness' about yourself even as you change and grow.

• Finally, your skills and abilities never degrade regardless of disuse, lack of practice, etc.

• Your hypercompetence may be fully or partially toggled whenever you wish, and may be automatically toggled back on during a life-threatening emergency even if you disabled your instantaneous reactions.

• The one exception to this toggle are your survival instincts, which will always be hypercompetent. You will never be taken completely off-guard by anything and will have unbreakable plot armor versus perma-death, death of personality, and other really bad things.

• As a special bonus, you receive full control over your fertility and other related buffs.

• This Essence immediately becomes part of your most inherent and innate nature upon first consuming it, and from that point on its benefits will permanently and irrevocably be with you at all times unless voluntarily toggled by you as per the above benefit. Nothing else can ever remove or weaken your hypercompetence in any way; curses, magic, Clarketech, even the will of ROB or equivalent beings, nothing.