It was discovered one night by a group of teenaged urban explorers in an abandoned warehouse in a part of the city nobody really visited anymore.
It was a giant construction of brass, stainless steel, and pipes both clear and opaque that carried mysterious liquids around it. A two flight staircase led to the top where there sat a platform next to the top of the machine, which consisted of a large metal funnel. The only other feature was a switch attached to the plat form simply labelled ON and OFF. At the bottom of the machine was what looked like a waterslide with a shallow slope ending in a shallow pool much like a kiddie pool in size but with soft, padded walls.
Naturally, one of the explorers flipped the switch and the machine roared to life and the funnel began to lubricate with a stream of oily water which eventually ended up in the pool below.
“Looks like a steampunk waterslide.” said an adventurous teenaged latina girl named Maria,”What’ll you give me to try it?”
Her friends all came up with $100 between them and she lept in with an excited whoop which echoed up from the mysterious interior of the machine before suddenly being cut off.
“Oh shit! We shouldnt have let her do that!” a friend yelled and they all descended the stairs to the pool below just in time to see.... someone emerge.
Who had gone in wasnt what had come out. Wet and slimy and glistening in the light from the overhead lights a pale, masculine form slid down the slide and stopped with a thick splash of the now soupy liquid in the pool.
The man (a white man of good build and an age of maybe 30, the clothes that Maria had gone in with now shredded by body growth) raised himself up with a laugh and, wiping his eyes clear, looked at them and said,”I’ll take that money now, please.”
Maria never collected her money because her friends fled in terror and confusion. What happened to her was unknown but people who came to see this urban legend out for themselves after would experiment and determine that, according to just how the machine worked, Maria had probably accidentally killed herself in trying to reverse it.
What came to be known as The Body Randomizer was a one way trip only,. Jump in at the top and you would spurt out the bottom in a fresh, healthy new body with seemingly random and sometimes medically impossible attributes.
There didnt seem to be any pattern and it didn’t always change every aspect of you. A pair of teenaged male caucasian twins jumped in one by one and were spat out as a black 40 year old man and a skinny white teenaged girl respectively. Interestingly, a pair of twins (caucasian males aged 23) who jumped in together both emerged as twin black teenaged girls, but a pair of friends (white male students from a nearby college) who jumped in at the same time came out as a middle eastern male of about 40 and a redhead woman of 30.
Nor did The Body Randomizer seem limited to normal sexes. One latin woman of 35 jumped in and emerged as a latin girl of 18 with a fat, uncut cock and balls now nestled between her legs. A college aged white male likewise emerged as a chubby asian man of the same age but now with a tight-slitted pussy between his legs.
It was with this last case where explorers learned the consequences of going through twice. Horrified at what he’d become, the boy had frantically raced back to the top of the stairs and thrown himself back into the funnel.
What emerged from the slide wasn’t technically human anymore, let alone alive. It was just a pulpy mass of dead flesh and blood which was quickly absorbed by the pool and sent back into the machine for recycling.
With these basic “rules” known now (though additional ones would surely be discovered in the future), people started to seek out The Body Randomizer hoping for a new lease on life....