"I wish I was a griffin," you say to the machine feeling silly. Then you see you get the strangest feeling in your face.
Your nose is growing, getting harder. Your jaw is jutting out too. In less than a minute your staring cross-eyed at a long solid beak! You open and close it, marveling that it's actually yours. A tingly feeling spreads over your head and down your neck as feathers start to grow out.
You have to lean over and lower the back of your pants to let a long lion tail swing out of it, turning your head just in time to see the golden fur cover the new last few patches of the appendage as the tassel finishes growing out. "Whoa, this is trippy," you think, staring at it past the end of your beak. With one hand still exploring over your new beak, you reach back with the other hand, grab your new tail, and caw out of your new bird-like throat. You startle yourself with the sound of your new birdlike voice.
Then you turn back around and drop to all fours as your arms and legs start to change. Considering your new stance, they're basically all legs now! The feathers spread down your front legs, which sprout orange scales down the bottom while your hands splay out into sharp talons. You stare down at them in wonder. Your legs and abdomen get furrier while your feet turn into paws. The paws feel odd, and you realize you have claws between your back toes that you can stick out and retract like a cat does. You're basically all lion back there now!
Then a pair of giant new appendages rips apart your shirt and grow out high over your hybrid body and start growing feathers. You can't believe it. You've got WINGS now! This is actually happening. You're going all the way!
You them out as far as you can on either side. Your wingspan has to be twice as long as your lion body! You flap them up and down, flap them a bit harder, and you actually manage to lift yourself off the ground a little bit. You let yourself down and let it sink in that you can actually fly. You're a freaking GRIFFIN! This is awesome! All that dreaming and fantasizing, and now it's actually real! How could this happen? You want to go out and try your new body right away.
But you're out back behind a magic shop in the middle of a large human city in the real world. Where does a griffin go in a place like this? What should a flesh-and-blood griffin actually do?