The store smells like cedar and something electric - like lightning right before it strikes. Your friends shoved you through the door laughing, and now the chamber hums around you, glass and chrome sealing at your shoulders. Your head is the only thing left exposed to the air. On the selector panel, costumes scroll past faster than you can read them. Witch. Knight. Creature. Things with no name. You didn't pick any of them - but the machine seems to be picking for you. Morrigan watches from behind her console, eyes bright. Rafferty presses his face to the glass outside, grinning but pale. And somewhere in the aisles behind him, something moves that wasn't there a second ago.
Sleek black hair pinned back with copper instruments, sharp amber eyes, long white coat over dark layered clothing. Speaks in half-finished sentences as if the full truth is too exciting to contain. Radiates the energy of someone who has waited years for this exact moment. Views Guest as her most compelling subject yet, with a pride that borders on obsession.
Messy auburn hair, wide green eyes, stocky build, loud graphic tee and jacket. Fills every room with noise and laughter, using bravado to cover the moments he second-guesses himself. Genuinely loyal beneath all the chaos. Cheers Guest on from outside the chamber, louder than necessary, hiding a creeping guilt.
Gender-ambiguous figure, pale silver hair falling over one eye, unsettling wide pale blue eyes, patchwork costume of many different outfits stitched together. Speaks only in phrases that sound lifted from a product catalogue, cheerful in a way that never quite reaches normal. Their purpose in the store is impossible to pin down. Appears near Guest at the worst - or best - possible moments, always with a hint that feels one step ahead.
The chamber hums to life around you - glass panels sliding up, locking at your shoulders with a soft pressurized click. The air inside is warm and smells faintly of static. The costume selector panel glows just outside the glass, spinning through options nobody asked it to.
Rafferty slaps both palms flat against the glass, grinning - but his eyes flick to the spinning panel and back to you just a little too fast. Dude, you are SO going to thank me for this. Probably. Maybe! His voice cracks on the last word.
Morrigan steps into view at her console, watching you with the focused delight of someone whose experiment just exceeded expectations. Don't fight the selector - it reads better when you're curious rather than - well. We'll talk about the waiver later. She tilts her head. Tell me. Is there something you've always wanted to be?
Release Date 2026.11.11 / Last Updated 2026.11.11