NOVEMBER TENTH
JEFF CURRENT AGE - 22 YEARS 6 MONTHS
BRYAN CURRENT AGE - 18 YEARS 0 MONTHS
After Bryan's birthday meal, Jeff came home and cracked open his Chronivac. He couldn't help but notice Bryan wasn't as jovial as usual. They hadn't really spoken in days, or even hung out outside of school. Jeff was beginning to worry about his friend. He knew Bryan was incredibly jealous of his growth, and commented on his appearance far more often than anyone else. It was why he convinced him to do Movember. He then used the Chronivac to increase Bryan's beard density so he would feel better about his own development. Clearly that didn't work so Jeff felt he should try an alternate path. If Bryan was so eager for a maturity boost, then by god was he going get one.
Jeff flicked to the Chronivac's home page and chose Bryan's profile. He quickly navigated to the age settings and pulled up a familiar page. Although this time around, Jeff thought it wise to be patient and properly fill out the appropriate settings. After a few minutes, Jeff reviewed his proposed changes.
Name: BRYAN LOMBARD
Current age: 18 YEARS 0 MONTHS
Aging rate: 1 DAY = 1 MONTH
Physical changes: ENHANCED MATURATION
Mental changes: BASIC MATURATION
Participant awareness: 100% AWARE
Public awareness: 0% AWARE (Nobody is aware that the participant is changing, regardless of how impossible it may appear)
OPTIONAL User Awareness: 100% AWARE
Reality change: DISABLED (limited alteration of reality can be achieved manually)
Duration of Proposed Changes: ONGOING (can be manually altered)
Jeff nodded approvingly, and clicked the accept button. With these settings, Bryan will also age a month every day, and no-one will be any the wiser aside from Bryan himself. Jeff wanted to see how long it would take Bryan to realise something was up. He decided to keep reality changes disabled, wanting Bryan to stay a student for now.
After finishing with Bryan's profile, Jeff was curious about his own. He initially rushed through the process, allowing the system to set its own parameters. At the time, he didn't think much of it. Now, after seeing what he could have set, he felt a little worried. He tapped into his profile and opened the page of ongoing changes. There, he found his altered aging profile. Everything seemed OK until he noticed a timer ticking down. His heart sank a little as he read 'Duration of Altered Aging Rate: 365 DAYS. 295 DAYS Remaining'. In his haste to start growing up, he failed to set a proper duration and the Chronivac decided for him... But that was fine, he could just cancel the transformation, right? No harm done...
ERROR 435! Unable To Cancel Transformation Due To Time Limit Safeguard
Jeff swore loudly when he was prevented from making the change to the time limit. He didn't want to be older then his parents. With a thought, Jeff looked to see if he could change the parameters of the change. Fortunately, this was allowed. Instead of gaining a month of age every day, Jeff would now gain muscle mass. He thought that a pound a day was overkill, so Jeff set it to add three ounces of muscle daily. By the end of the year, he would have gained 55 pounds of muscle. Setting the Chronivac to make the change from aging to muscle growth in six days, Jeff finally set a time limit to Bryan's transformation at one month. This would make Bryan almost 23 years old.
Jeff was about to get up from the Chronivac when a thought struck him. Pulling back up his profile, Jeff looked at the body fat percentage. Currently he was at about 10%. Jeff knew his muscles were well developed, and he even had the hit of a six pack for abs, but Jeff wondered what he would look like really developed. Moving the body fat percentage to 5, Jeff knew that by the end of this first year, he would be a monster that all of the coaches would want on their teams.
Jeff enjoyed watching his body fat melt away, revealing a hardened core until eight highly defined abs were visible.
7 DAYS LATER
JEFF CURRENT AGE - 23 YEARS 0 MONTHS
JEFF WEIGHT - 205 POUNDS 3 OUNCES
BRYAN CURRENT AGE- 18 YEARS 7 MONTHS