You were at a party when it happened. You distinctly remember drinking the fruit punch there. You remember hearing and feeling the grumbling stomach cramps. And that’s when you blew up. Unbeknownst to everyone a strange virus had gotten into the city’s water supply just hours before the party. It was just now taking effect.
The disease came to me known as The Blorbs, a debilitating disease that turns people into taut, spherical, fatty balloons. The first sign is the cramps, followed by immediate swelling until you’re a big immobilized ball from head to toe. Inflated victims often feel bloated and uncomfortable, and in many cases even a little gassy. In many other cases infected individuals have learned to roll their bodies like the balls they’ve become, but their awkward mass causes them to often lose control. Miraculously, about 1% of the people seem to be immune to the virus, and scientists from out of town have been called in to investigate the properties of The Blorbs, and possibly develop a treatment. Of course, problems mount as many of the people who come into town quickly become infected and unable to work properly due to their condition.
It would seem that until a proper treatment is developed, we must learn to adapt to the Blorbs.