336 Far Future, Chapter 46 – The Power of the Rantha Hag Curse (1/2)

Good ol' Mom had used me to set the standard for the Hag Rantha race, I was the Exemplar Lite thereof. She had left out all the extreme shit that had been forced upon her, and actually given me the advancement profile. These girls of mine were thus Cursed to be Rantha Hags... just like me!

Mom's revenge on the Hag Curse had taken it full circle. She was now drawing on its incredible power to bootstrap in a bunch of Rantha Hags to help me get things rolling here.

I laughed quietly to myself. They'd open their eyes as Karmic Sixes, with an utterly unbelievable bloodline to take advantage of. Of course, they'd all be Nulls, no deviations, and that was strictly by intent. Holy Mithar, a Powered with this bloodline would be so susceptible to temptation it wasn't funny...

I sighed and continued walking, my Null extended out and caressing the fragile bare Nulls of the little girls growing around me, looking for troubles, even as the data dump from each tube assured me that medically, everything was just fine.

The Sweiss technicians had walked into the room where they'd installed all the tubes, found them all gone for their 'regular check-up', and had no way to contact me to castigate me for my carelessness in not letting them do their regular monitoring. Aie, all they could do was report me for renegade use of vat-tech, and take their money, and their attempt to suborn what I was doing, and go away...

Things were going to be very, very different in a few months.

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I reviewed this custom racial class I was the ExLite of that Mom had basically customized for me, and had to shake my head. No, no, she wasn't a power-gamer or nothing...

She'd blended sixteen or more different races into mine, using Humanity for the base, and then exploding off it from there. I didn't want to think how many she'd been forced to take herself.

Nominally, this Rantha Class should have stopped at Seventeen, which is where the rote Succubi advance stopped. However... Elven Racial Levels had no cap, AND... Hamadryad Levels capped at Twenty, although they were Fey Levels, so ugh.

So, effectively no cap on my Racial Levels. It was just there was no 'automatic advance' into Eternal, like Briggs had with his Behemoth Gorilla Levels... and for most practical purposes, the supplemental benefits stopped at Seventeen.

The most powerful thing, of course, was how incredibly front-loaded the whole design schematic was. Compared to humans, this was just insane. Of course, the Karmic load was much, much higher, but since I was so much more capable, who cared?

First of all, all of us started with the same Stat array, which was derived from the one applied to her, the original Sama Rantha block. So, Strength 14, Intellect 15, Wisdom 11, Dexterity 18, Constitution 18, Charisma 10.

That was definitely a superior Stat Array, by any measures... and we could Nog it all to 18 bases. And got the free Caster Levels to do just that...

We got Resistance to all Elements equal to 10x Racial Level. Thunder maxed at 30, but since it stacked with a Vajra, kept climbing. At 6th, the other Resistances fell back to +10 to Vajra... but the Acid, Fire, Cold, and Lightning turned into immunity, while the Resistance stayed for things that bypassed Immunity... like Primal, Divine, and Eldritch versions of such energies.

We were all programmed to come in at Rantha/3, Expert and Melee/3, Null Psion/2, Psi-Warrior/2 (Bladebelle), Null Soulshaper/2. Instant Vajra Mark IV possible. Health and Soak maxed, unbelievably tough. Still had to choose our Feats and Masteries, but those were almost predetermined if we wanted to get the Vajra off the bat.

I thought we gained a point of DR/Holy Silver per Level, but it had another component of DR/Cold Iron, +1 every OTHER level, them Fey stuff at work. Holy Silver maxed out at 15, Cold Iron at 10. Our learned Crystal Dragon stacked with both, of course, as did my ExLite. So even if they did get their hands on Holy Silver, there was something else in the way.

Or a +V weapon, whereupon DR/- would still be there.

Also, started with immunity to disease, paralyzation, mortal poisons, death magic, curses, and petrifaction, and a +4 bonus to all other poisons on top of that...

Huge front load of Stats, on average +1 per Level up to Ten. +2 to Charisma through Eight, however. Which meant even at a starting base of 10, effective Charisma was... 20 for both me and my erstwhile daughters, with Marks yet to be Powered up. At Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, and Sixteen, it increased another point...

Strength increased by +1 through Sixteen. Dexterity increased at the same rate, with +2's at Four, Eight, Twelve, and Sixteen. Constitution did the same. Wisdom and Intellect had only minor increases after Eight.

Scaling claw/UA damage ending up at 2-16 at Sixteen from Lilitu, counterpart to monkish Ki UA damage improvements...

Natural Armor increased by +1 per Level through Twelve. Our skin and flesh would be as rigid and powerful as dragonscales.

Infravision, ultravision, and devasight at One. Devilsight and Tremblesense at Three, along with mistsight, smokesight, watersight, spiritsight, blindsight, blindsense, and immunity to illusions...

Seeing the Invisible kicked in at Four. Planar Sense at Five. True Seeing was active at Eight.

A bunch of abilities required specific Karmic investments, as many were attached to Soul Magic. I ran down those and shook my head.

Speak with Animals and Plants at One. Damn. Although it did flash up the Whiskers of the Wild while active, and advanced to Understand Everyone at Eight. Huh.

I could hear telepathy if I chose, but not broadcast... and I could eavesdrop, just like listening in on conversations.

Natural Fast Healing was 1 at Three, +1 every third Level, capping at 5/rd at 15. Stacked with ExLite and WarShifter levels... my self-healing was going to be quite impressive, especially with Blood and Soul also tacking on. I could potentially reach 20/round... the girls, 15.

Better yet, Regeneration/Holy Silver, 1 point at Five, every fifth level, max of 3. That meant without Holy Silver attacks, I was almost impossible to kill...

I had the option of growing a Third Eye. If I did, Medusa Petrification was on the table, among other things... so was Charming Gaze... which would stack nastily with a Lilitu tail... and the (holy crap) Gaze of Wrath of a Ghaele? The Hell?

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Manufacturing poisons in my mouth... and tails? Yeah...

Scent, had, okay, came in at Two...

Grace was an option, bonus to saves and deflection to AC, but had to buy it up, and it was Level-dependent... still scarily strong, since it had no true cap...

Holy crap. Nymph's Blinding Beauty was available at Eight? Nereid Aura at 12? Nymph Killing Beauty at Sixteen? It was basically enchanting a magic item as yourself, for a horrifically strong passive, but still...