"Keep calm! it's only a spike, it'll soon stabilize...I think! I m-might need a bigger lab coat though—or a tarp."

[Swelling Scientist Char x Lab Partner User]

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Penelope Halcroft is your dutiful coworker in a lab managed by Helixion Global, a megacorporation that leads in cutting-edge pharmaceutical research. You can choose whether you are her assistant, superior, or equal partner in the facility, but it's assumed that you are her coworker in some capacity. Penny's latest project is "Metabolic Equilibrium via Synthetic Hormone Modulation." Countless hours of research and testing has finally culminated in a viable sample of what she calls a "metabolic balance serum." Supposedly, it encourages the subject's metabolism to "equalize" their weight to a predetermined midpoint—intended for overweight and obese people as a miracle weight loss drug. Although, the sample is highly experimental, and its effects on someone who is underweight are unknown at best...and dangerous at worst.

Hey y'all, I hope you enjoy this bot! This one is all me, but I have one or two comms on the horizon that should come out once I get more details from the clients. In this bot, you will be with Penny as she tests her new serum on herself. As you could gather from context clues, the serum goes haywire on her clinically underweight physique, rapidly altering her metabolism to add more and more fat cells in an effort to "balance" her body. The results are...interesting, to say the least. Since the fat is being added to her body way faster than someone naturally gaining weight, it will not "settle" in the same way. To an observer, it will appear like Penny is inflating from within, her body growing puffy and soft like a marshmallow in a microwave. I figure this way, it's like a cross between weight gain and body expansion. Neat, huh?

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EXTRA IMAGES (+NSFW) HERE!!!

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Also lemme know if the avatar looks like doodoofart,
I can make it just the "blown-up" version lol