The Dream17 Vending Machine
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You receive the gift of music! Your immense talent quickly takes over your life. You bang out your debut album in a week, and it goes quintuple platinum in a matter of hours. Within days you own literally every Ferrari, and your estate is an actual entire United State you purchased wholesale somewhere in the midwest. You can't even leave your mind-bogglingly huge mansion without accidentally having sex three to five times on the way to the door. Needless to say you also rapidly develop a god complex and numerous debilitating dependencies on highly illegal substances. For a time you literally refuse to let anyone see you, until the day of your inevitable, yet still sudden and tragic downfall, when you are shot, after shooting yourself, accidentally, while falling down some stairs, after bailing out from your moving limo, while eating a ham sandwich, underneath a big sign that says THE WORLD IS YOURS.
Your experience makes an excellent movie, and you are memorialized by trillions of adoring, anonymous strangers.
I cautiously insert a commemorative coin with your likeness on it, legal tender in six countries.
Your experience makes an excellent movie, and you are memorialized by trillions of adoring, anonymous strangers.
I cautiously insert a commemorative coin with your likeness on it, legal tender in six countries.
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You receive TRUE LOVE. At least that's what the vending machine's readout says. You don't appear to have received anything.
Annoyed, you track down a nearby vending machine repair person. "THAT MACHINE STOLE MY MONEY!" you cry. The repair person turns around and you gasp. She's gorgeous, it's love at first sight! You try and tell her she doesn't need to open the machine and that it wasn't faulty after all but she wants to impress you. She brings a master key out of her pocket and slides it into a rusty lock. "D-don't do this" you gulp. "Relax," she smiles "What's the worst that could happen?"
The door opens with a sigh. Inside there is... nothing. A gaping abyss that seems to gnaw at your very soul. You hear screams but they're not coming from the void, they're inside your head. The noise becomes louder and louder until it reaches a thundering crescendo.
The door slams shut. There is no-one here.
I walk up, whistling a jaunty tune, and insert a coin into the slot.
Annoyed, you track down a nearby vending machine repair person. "THAT MACHINE STOLE MY MONEY!" you cry. The repair person turns around and you gasp. She's gorgeous, it's love at first sight! You try and tell her she doesn't need to open the machine and that it wasn't faulty after all but she wants to impress you. She brings a master key out of her pocket and slides it into a rusty lock. "D-don't do this" you gulp. "Relax," she smiles "What's the worst that could happen?"
The door opens with a sigh. Inside there is... nothing. A gaping abyss that seems to gnaw at your very soul. You hear screams but they're not coming from the void, they're inside your head. The noise becomes louder and louder until it reaches a thundering crescendo.
The door slams shut. There is no-one here.
I walk up, whistling a jaunty tune, and insert a coin into the slot.
Worm Mad - is he a mad worm or a person mad about worms? I'll give you a clue - it's not the first one.
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You receive hubris.
I don't not put a coin in the machine.
I don't not put a coin in the machine.
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You receive somebody's wallet. The driver's license was issued 15 years ago, in another country. You don't recognize the currency. The wallet itself is fairly nice though.
I insert most of a coin. I'm not sure where the rest of it went.
I insert most of a coin. I'm not sure where the rest of it went.
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You receive the rest of the coin.
I insert a coin.
I insert a coin.
Worm Mad - is he a mad worm or a person mad about worms? I'll give you a clue - it's not the first one.
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You receive thousands of pounds!
Of mustard.
It's everywhere.
I insert an extremely valuable doubloon.
Of mustard.
It's everywhere.
I insert an extremely valuable doubloon.
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Garr,
Yee receiveith the mar harr gar dar dee booty lar sar garrr... arrr...kraken.
I insert a phrase that had just been coined.
Yee receiveith the mar harr gar dar dee booty lar sar garrr... arrr...kraken.
I insert a phrase that had just been coined.
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You receive a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a rasher of delicious, delicious bacon.
I insert a petition to the vending machine, signed by 200 participants. The petition calls upon the vending machine for greater transparency and to clearly state the services it provides.
I insert a petition to the vending machine, signed by 200 participants. The petition calls upon the vending machine for greater transparency and to clearly state the services it provides.
Worm Mad - is he a mad worm or a person mad about worms? I'll give you a clue - it's not the first one.
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You receive a heavy metal lockbox labelled "SOMETHING." There is no key. The box seems to be literally bulletproof. Something is rattling around in there, but the contents will probably be a mystery until the end of civilization.
I insert the most perfectly unremarkable coin I can possibly think of in hopes of not getting something pertaining to whatever quirk it has.
I insert the most perfectly unremarkable coin I can possibly think of in hopes of not getting something pertaining to whatever quirk it has.
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You receive a hat. It's identical to the one on your head. You touch your head. There is no hat.
I insert the one ring.
I insert the one ring.
Worm Mad - is he a mad worm or a person mad about worms? I'll give you a clue - it's not the first one.
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You receive a note stating that this currency is currently unsupported. You try to fish it out of the "Coin Return" slot but the machine has swallowed it. You grimace with realization that that ring was worth 500k $ and you shouldn't have given it to the vending machine in the first place.
I insert a Bell.
I insert a Bell.
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You hear the fading echo of the bell as it tumbles down into the depths of the vending machine. It seems to last for an unreasonably long amount of time considering the size of the machine.
You receive a glass of milk.
I insert a coin.
You receive a glass of milk.
I insert a coin.
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You receive another coin identical in every regard to the one you inserted, but for one minor difference: It's not a coin, it's a small frog.
I insert a small frog.
I insert a small frog.
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You croak it.
HAHAHAHAhahahaheheheh...ehem.
Seriously though, you receive a star shaped badge. It's made of blue enamel with a gold backing. You think it'd make a good gift for a friend of yours in the medical profession but it slips out of your hand and shatters.
"Bugger," you mutter "Now I'll never know if I was right."
I insert a coin.
HAHAHAHAhahahaheheheh...ehem.
Seriously though, you receive a star shaped badge. It's made of blue enamel with a gold backing. You think it'd make a good gift for a friend of yours in the medical profession but it slips out of your hand and shatters.
"Bugger," you mutter "Now I'll never know if I was right."
I insert a coin.
Worm Mad - is he a mad worm or a person mad about worms? I'll give you a clue - it's not the first one.
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Confetti and other colorful party favors explode enthusiastically from the slot. Your injuries are minor, and it's an instant Youtube classic!
I insert a coin.
I insert a coin.
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You receive a plot fixer ray! It says in theory if the plot goes wrong, it could fix everything. You fire the plot fixer ray, and it displays that "Earth's Plot is correct, and always will be correct. Try Jupiter."
You throw the piece of junk at the floor and a tiny shard shoots into the insert coin slot as I walk up to the machine.
You throw the piece of junk at the floor and a tiny shard shoots into the insert coin slot as I walk up to the machine.
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You receive all the world's missing left socks! You are a hero, up until the world realizes that this doesn't solve the mystery of the right socks, and unanimously decides this is somehow your fault, because people are stupid. You are reviled, and the socks are pretty friggin' smelly.
I insert a coin! !! !!!
I insert a coin! !! !!!
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You receive a coin? ?? ???
I insert a chocolate coin.
I insert a chocolate coin.
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You receive a stuffed penguin, which, when squeezed, recites a random one of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. It's... some kind of patriotic penguin? Okay, that's weird. Educational but weird.
I spend half an hour begrudgingly re-inserting the dozens of coins I've received back out of this stupid machine.
I spend half an hour begrudgingly re-inserting the dozens of coins I've received back out of this stupid machine.