So anyway, I managed to roll so poorly in my first combat that I was one-shot by a strange, bubbly, liquid creature.

Due to the rules in play, I had to take a permanent injury rather than die.

I think you can guess where this is going

By the end of the mission, Trance was forcefully blown up to a 15 foot parody of his former self. The same nanites that animated these strange creatures altered his very DNA, making him more balloon than lion. He woke up to find himself floating skyward, forever a creaking blimp.

In time, maybe some personal gravity devices will get him walking again and get him back in the mercenary game.

Maybe.