The "interns" gather at the feeding room, as usual at around 2 for their mid afternoon snacks. The four men a mix of different levels of enthusiasm for their calorie laden contractual requirement. The room is one designed by Peter to suit his gaining proteges; a nice open space with a 102" TV against a wall if they ever can agree on something to watch or play and individual recliners packed with motorized footrests and in-arm refrigerators for drinks. The four men lumber in, the two more enthusiastic stripped down to their expansive boxers for comfort, Lance wearing a pair of nylon shorts and underarmor from his pre-eating workout and Daniel wearing jeans and a shirt that he had yet to outgrow. They each find their preferred seat and after a few minutes of bickering decide on a cooking channel to look for suggestions. Munching on a variety of deep fried treats the men eat bowlfuls of stuffed jalapenos, cheese sticks, curly fries, and hush puppies rinsed down with bottles of their favorite sodas.
Most of the way into their hour long gluttonous escapade Peter waddled in, not totally unusual but his beaming smile suggested something other than the usual requests for "snacks and service" as he'd call it. "Hey guys! great news!" He said, grabbing the remote from Aaron and changing over to an input the gainers hadn't seen connected on the TV before. "I doubt any of you were paying much attention to the news recently but my 5th startup I initially bankrolled just sold for 12 Billion, and I get a third of it! To celebrate I decided to greenlight Project Adephagia". His enthuasim and news was met with mixed response. Anyone could've seen the jealousy of Peters expanded fortune on his face. Lance looked perplexed and at the same time a bit curious, no doubt about what Adephagia was. Finally Aaron hadn't stopped eating long enough to give a readable expression and Aidan's eyes opened wide and he piped up, "Really? You're... we're.... but..."
"Since I don't think I mentioned this to any of you besides Aidan, the other one here who actually enjoys this as much as I do, Project Adephagia is a little mockup I paid Space X to draw up when I got a little too drunk a few years ago." Peter said chuckling. "I didn't think they'd take me seriously but hey, they took $10,000,000 out of my bank account and gave me the working designs to what is now going to be the world's first privately owned residence in outer space, one especially designed to promote extreme and expectedly rapid weight gain." Peter may have been a large man, proudly over 400 pounds but even his thick thighs couldn't hide his full erection at just saying that out loud. The TV showed a computerized model of just what he said. Rather than a thin tubal structure like the International Space Station, Adephagia looked like a smaller rendition of the one early on in Aliens, two large buildings connected by several passageways. "The facility will be made to run on solar power exclusively using the most advanced materials possible, one will be used as our living quarters, with every need accommodated in ways you couldn't dream of. The other will be used for storage of provisions, general supplies and living quarters to the serving staff who will operate and maintain Adephagia for us.
"Gentlemen to be frank, your contracts are all at different points; you're all going to be paid in full whether or not you want to come along but I've got only a three month window to prepare and I need to know, who is interested in a longer term contract with a much larger growth opportunity?" Peter looked around the room at his interns, stunned with such a proposition.
Aaron took the opertunity to finish his loud eating, belch and grumble "If I know you, we'll be racing to see who can attain their own orbit first, I'm in." Aidan quickly signed up too, Daniel backed out, happy to take his half million and hit the road scarcely a pound bigger, and Lance said he'd need a few days to decide. We have some of the right men, but will Peter want to find a couple new recruits to his zero gravity harem?
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