Essence ofInvested Competence
byCLord7
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Gives you infinite memory, analytical capacity and parallel thought, then builds competence in anything you touch in proportion to the contact — a moment with a keyboard teaches you to type, and the skill remains stored in an infinite library once contact ends, escalating far faster with similar objects. Longer contact broadens what you absorb, so holding a book on thermodynamics eventually gives you the whole field rather than just its contents. It works on living things too: a handshake picks up habits and hobbies, while sustained contact yields everything about a person's mind and body — enough time with a Kryptonian would tell you how to recreate one — making people themselves tools you become steadily better at reading and using, with sub-skills developing in minutes.
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Description
By drinking this depressing seeming Essence, you gain the following benefits:
Effects
8You gain infinite memory storage, analytical ability and thought processes.
Every time you make contact with something, you begin to build up competency with that thing proportionate to the amount of contact. A moment of contact with a keyboard will have you learning how to type, a minute and you start learning all the information stored in the computer attached to the keyboard, ten minutes and you start gaining mastery in the programming used, an hour and you know everything about the computer, understanding how to create it from scratch as long as you have the resources.
When that contact is lost, the competency stays, stored away in an infinite library of acquirable skills. If a similar device, say a phone, is used, your competency will escalate much faster, since skills you've already acquired are applicable.
As the time spent touching something increases, the areas from which you get information from becomes broader. For instance, if you're holding a book about thermodynamics, you'll learn all the information about the knowledge of thermodynamics in the book, then other knowledge of thermodynamics not mentioned in the book along with other fields of study connected to thermodynamics. Keep holding the book for long enough and you'll start getting information about physics in general, then about science, and then... well you get the idea.
Your powers also work on living things. Shake hands with somebody and pick up basic things like habits and hobbies. Spend long enough in contact with a person and you'll learn everything that's there to learn about them, their personality, dreams, hopes, what makes them tick, and so on. You'll know every single facet of them so completely that they could never act in a way that surprises you or goes beyond your expectations.
This doesn't just apply to their minds, you also get comprehensive knowledge about their bodies. A long enough contact with a Kryptonian will give you all the information you'll need to recreate them with the necessary tools.
People are tools to you, ones that you get better and better at using and manipulating as you learn and meet more and more people. After all, people aren't all that different from each other: so long as you have established that they're human and operate by human rules, your ever growing library of "how to use humans," will be applicable.
Sub-skills - the difference between using a knife and a dagger, the difference between talking to a doctor and a politician - will develop in minutes, and pretty soon you'll be someone who just... knows, and can do whatever they want with that information.
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- knowledgecraftingutilitytechnology
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- skill mastery
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- writing