After spending far more time than you'd expected wandering the store, you eventually spot a lone glove sitting on the floor. Picking it up, you give it a look-over. It's a small black fingerless left-hand glove, apparently made of latex rubber. It even looks like it's about your size. In fact, it'd probably look pretty good on you. Yeah, it'd look great on you! With this in mind, you put it on... and then immediately realize how stupid you look with a shiny rubber glove on one hand. Not even sure why you'd put it on in the first place, you try to pull it off, only to find that it's stuck tight. Pulling harder doesn't help, and it refuses to budge, almost like it was a size too small despite the fact that it had been so easy to put on before. Then you remember that this is a joke shop. Maybe this is some sort of fingertrap-like glove, but for only one hand? You turn to the shelves, seeking any similar gloves, and immediately spot an opened package. That's probably it, you think to yourself as you read over the back.
"New from LatexCo: it's the Costume Change Glove! Whether you're joking around with friends or striking down your enemies with the wrath of a furious god, there's nothing quite like the Costume Change Glove!
- Easy voice commands make using the glove a breeze!
- Patented design makes glove virtually impervious to removal or damage - once it's on, it STAYS on!
- Using the latest innovations in magic, the glove now supports billions of species, real or fictional! If you can name it, the glove can turn 'em into it*!
*NOTE: Glove does not support transformations into glombulax, kreznor, or serbdribel."
As you read this, your reaction quickly shifts from confusion to fear, and you tear the glove's packaging apart looking for some instructions. Eventually, you manage to find a small, folded sheet.
"Thank you for purchasing the LatexCo Costume Change Glove. Please read the following instructions before attempting to handle the glove.
In order to use the glove on someone, simply place it within their range of view. After ten minutes of being removed from its packaging, the glove will generate a strong compulsion in any who see it to wear it. This effect is temporary, and will fade immediately after the glove is worn.
Once the glove has been worn, speak a command to change the glove into a full-body latex costume of whatever species has been named. Because of technical limitations, the costume will be an anthropomorphic approximation to the named species with proportions similar to those of the wearer. Future versions of the glove will support size changes and full species changes.
Once a costume has been formed, the wearer will begin to transform to fit the specifications of the costume. Within 24 hours (usually far more quickly), the wearer will fill out the costume and gain its shape, adopting the chosen species. Once this process is complete, the costume reverts to a glove on the wearer's right hand, hoof, paw, tentacle, or whatever equivalent extremity they now have in its place. If the new species has no limbs, the costume becomes a collar. In either case, it can now be used to repeat the process.
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VOICE COMMAND SYNTAX FOR THE COSTUME CHANGE GLOVE:
[COLOR][GENDER][SPECIES][BODY PART]
Where color is the desired color of the costume or glove, gender is the desired gender of the wearer, and so on. Any of the four parts of the commands may be omitted, so that any one of the four may be used independently, but the order must remain. Further notes on the various parts:
- COLOR: If color is specified, the glove or costume and any skin/hair/scales/fur/etcetera covered by the glove/costume's current form will change to that color. If color is not specified, the glove will adopt the most appropriate colors for the species and/or gender in question.
- GENDER: If gender is stated without species, the costume takes the shape of that gender of the wearer's current species. If gender is stated with species, the costume takes the shape of that gender of the stated species. If gender is not stated, the costume maintains the wearer's current gender.
- SPECIES: If species is specified, the costume becomes an anthropomorphic approximation of that species.
- BODY PART: If a body part is specified, costume will only apply to this body part. Note that this can be used for the addition of parts that the wearer's current species does not have, such as tails. If species and gender are not specified, the costume becomes an appropriate article of clothing on that part of the body. If body part is not specified, costume will be full-body.
WARNING: The glove will not respond to the wearer. As such, it is recommended that you DO NOT wear the glove yourself. If you have worn the glove accidentally, please contact LatexCo at the address listed on the packaging for a LatexCo Glove Removal Kit and allow two to four weeks for delivery."
After you finish reading the instructions you're mortified at the fact that you have to wear this, but realizing that you can still be saved by that address you turn to the glove's packaging... which now lies tattered on the floor, thanks to your reckless attempts to open it. You look through the shreds of plastic for any recognizable address, but it's no use - the thing it destroyed.
Even more resolute to find your way out of this place now that you wear that insane burden on your hand, you walk further into that endless maze searching for some help only to find something far better: a back door. One that, conveniently enough, opens on a street not far from your home. You rush out of it to see for yourself that it's true, and not just some fevered illusion brought on by the onset of madness, and nearly kiss the ground when you find that it's real. Your elation is short-lived, however, when you turn to return to the store in the hopes that someone there might still know the address to LatexCo... only to find that the entire structure, along with the circus it was in, has completely vanished, leaving only a large and empty lot. Dejected, you wander home and simply hope that no one ever mentions any animals around you for the rest of your life... or any genders... or colors... or body parts...