Gotta find some help... gotta find some help... gotta find... hey, what's that? Something bright and flashing with neon lights catches your eye amidst all the gloom surrounding the shops. It looks like some kind of vending machine, but from here it's hard to tell exactly what they're trying to sell it in. Of course, you could always take a look. Not like the world'll implode just because you took a few extra minutes before getting some directions.
Yep, it's a vending machine all right. It looks like it's brand new and fully stocked, rows of clear plastic capsules filled with some swishing, viscous liquid filling it. Running down the side there's some bold text reading "Instant Costumes" and there's a proud proclamation of "form-fitting costumes ready in less than 60 seconds!" along the top. You can't really understand how that would work - the capsules in the machine are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and even if they didn't have so little material it'd take even a seasoned costume maker ages to get something that fit as well as this seems to be claiming. And besides, it probably costs a fortune for something that... no, looking at the racks inside the machine, you see that not a single one is priced over 25 cents.
Curiosity alone is enough to draw you in as you draw a quarter from your pocket, slip it into the coin slot on the machine, and make a selection.