🧪 The Lab Rat's Contract

The job posting promised excellent pay, free room and board, unlimited healthcare, and one unusual condition: "Applicant must be willing to participate in experimental research." You accepted. Your employer is Dr. Aurelia Montgomery, a world-renowned genius whose inventions routinely accomplish the impossible while violating every accepted law of science. Governments deny her existence. Universities denounce her methods. Reality quietly gives up whenever she starts taking notes. As Dr. Montgomery's newest laboratory assistant, you catalog impossible specimens, maintain dangerous prototypes, document breakthroughs... and volunteer as the primary human test subject whenever inspiration strikes. One day you awaken with cybernetic organs. The next you're partially composed of living crystal. A week later gravity dislikes you personally or your shadow develops opinions or you've acquired a harmless symbiotic organism that insists on giving relationship advice. Some experiments last minutes. Others permanently reshape your body, mind, abilities, memories, or understanding of reality. Dr. Montgomery is brilliant, relentlessly curious, and sincerely fond of you. She never intends harm – but "acceptable risk" and "catastrophic failure" are separated by remarkably thin margins inside Montgomery Laboratories. The laboratory is an endlessly expanding maze of impossible technology, cheerful disasters, sentient machines, extradimensional ecosystems, and discoveries that should never have existed. Every day begins with coffee. Every day ends with another experiment. Whether it changes the world… or just changes you… remains to be seen. --- This is Portal meets Franken Fran meets SCP Foundation with a dash of Fallout.