Arborea (2022)
> x vending machine (@ Himalayan Simulation Room)
It's a straightforward device: it has a slot that accepts money and a dispenser that dispenses coffee.
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Arborea (2022)
> x vending machine (@ Himalayan Simulation Room)
It's a straightforward device: it has a slot that accepts money and a dispenser that dispenses coffee.
The Ascent of the Gothic Tower (2014)
> x vending machine (@ First Floor Hallway)
It looks like a roll of mints (E2) or a pack of gum (E4) is fifty cents; a chocolate bar (D1), nut roll (D3), or box of crackers (C5) is seventy-five cents; and a bag of cookies (B1), potato chips, (A4) or corn nuts (A5, but those things are inedible) is a dollar and twenty cents.
To your right are the slots for bills and coins, that seven-segment display that says how much money is in the machine ($0.00), the buttons for your letters and your numbers and your coin return, and the little hole that your change comes out of.
Bears, Bears, Bears (2001)
> x vending machine (@ Lobby)
This vending machine sells tasty bananas, like most vending machines around the world. Unfortunately, it's broken. The back panel has been unlocked so that maintenance can look inside, but they haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.
Beat the Devil (1999)
> x unholy water machine (@ Outside Hell Of A Workout)
A standard soda vending machine, buttons and all, modified to dispense some concoction called unholy water.
Bullhockey 2: The Return of The Leather Whip (2019)
> x newspaper box (@ Community Area)
It is a red, stand-alone newspaper rack, selling the local scandal...er....newspaper, The Bunco Springs Sentinel. It has a door on the front, with a transparent window. There is a mechanism on top with a coin slot, and a push-button for coin return. The current edition is prominently displayed on the front.
Bullhockey! (2018)
> x newspaper box (@ Community Area)
It's a coin operated newspaper box for the local paper, The Bunco Springs Sentinel. There's a coin slot next to the display window on the box--75 cents daily, $1.25 for Sundays. The display copy in the window has the headline "ELECTION '16: FAKE FLARE OR REAL HAIR??", and is dated for today, September 7th, 2016.
Campus Invaders (2022)
> x vending machine (@ Lobby)
The Chinese Room (2007)
> x bees (@ First chamber)
On closer examination the bees are hovering in the exact shape of a vending machine. You can even see the slot where the money goes, and the little tray where the goods drop down. It would be a refreshingly normal sight in this mad world, if it weren't for the fact that it were made out of thousands of writhing insects it would be rather a relief.
Coffee Quest II (2002)
> x coffee machine (@ Coffee Lounge)
The vending machine has been responsible for the loss of many jobs in the public service sector. It has a coin slot in its face.
Coke Is It! (1999)
> x Coke machine (@ At the Coca-Cola Dispenser)
This Coke machine has served you well. It is always full, always has exact change, always operates smoothly, and always keeps its assortment of Coca-Cola products chilled at exactly the right temperature. Right now, though, the buttons don't seem to have the same labels they used to. The 'Select!' light is still on, meaning you can push the following buttons:
**Curses**
**Adventure**
**Planetfall**
**Hitchhiker**
**Grip**
**A Bear's Night Out**
Cragne Manor (2018)
> x vending machine (@ Railway Platform)
Similar to a gumball machine, but it's the kind that dispenses toys in little plastic bubbles. At the bottom is a chute where the contents come out. There is a coin slot, but instead of a price next to it, there is a strange squiggled glyph.
> x newspaper box (@ Outside Pub)
The metal paperbox has a door, with a foggy glass window through which you can still see some of the newspapers inside. There is a large handle that would be used to open the box and beside the handle is a coin slot and a faded sign that reads "25 cents." One of the legs of the rusted paperbox has broken away and has left the newspaper box leaning at an angle. A rusty bar of metal, which appears to be the remains of the leg, lies on the sidewalk.
Dessert Island Adventure (2022)
> x vending machine (@ Bottom of the Lighthouse)
Well, you assume it's a vending machine: it has a coin sized slot and a hole at the bottom. You have no idea what it might sell though.
Ditch Day Drifter (1990)
> x machine (@ Kitchen)
The machine dispenses ToxiCola, one of the big losers in the Cola Wars. But, hey, it's cheap, so the food service installed it. The machine consists of a compartment large enough for a cup, and a button for dispensing ToxiCola into the cup.
Escape from the Arboretum (2002)
> x vending machine (@ inside an electricity shop)
The vending machine has been responsible for the loss of many jobs in the
public service sector. It has a coin slot in it's face.
Escape from the Underworld (2008)
> x vending machine (@ Administration corridor (south))
A big bright red Coca-Cola machine. It might look a bit out of place in the Underworld, but we have standards here... and the Coca-Cola company falls well below them. It has a slot in which to put your coins.
Feeling Adventurous (2013)
> x vending machines (@ Kane Hall - Foyer)
There are prominent signs in front of each lecture hall forbidding food and drink, but these vending machines seem located specifically to tempt students into violating that admonition. You're not particularly hungry or thirsty at the moment, but you know where to go if you need a snack in the future.
Frobozz Magic Support (1996)
> x dented vending machine (@ Dead end)
The machine is about twice your height, dull metallic gold in tone, crusted with years of neglect. It seems to have a slot, a red button, a black button, a plaque, and two chutes near its base.
Gone Out for Gruyère (2019)
> x vending machine (@ Foggy Street Corner)
The street light casts an eerie glow on it, enough for you to see that the machine vends cigarettes and matchbooks--a dime for a pack of Camels, and matchbooks are two for a penny! This must be the '30s! Two coin slots--a penny slot and a dime slot--adorn the side.
Hangar 22 (2011)
> x vending machine (@ Astronaut Lounge)
The vending machine is stocked with various flavors of freeze-dried Astronaut Ice Cream. It's also filled with cobwebs, and doesn't appear to have worked in quite some time.
The Legend of Horse Girl (2022)
> x vending machine (@ Laundry)
The Happy Rhinoceros Joy Joy Wow!! (tm) Auspicious Charms vending machine contains a wide variety of authentic Chinese lucky charms, which, the instructions claim, "exile unlucky ghosts and sad vibes to the land of the ancestors!!! Reasonable price for good is one single silver vulture coin 1868!!!"
Mean Mother Trucker (2021)
> x cigarette machine (@ Last Chance Diner)
For a fiver, you can get a pack of cigarettes. You don't have a fiver, but you remember seeing someone once knock some cigarettes lose just by shoving the machine.
> x gumball machine (@ Last Chance Diner)
For a quarter, you can get a gumball.
The Obscene Quest of Dr. Aardvarkbarf (1997)
> x vending machine (@ Landing)
It's a tired, old vending machine, sitting in the corner. On the front are three buttons labeled -SODA- , -JUICE- , and - SALAMI SANDWICH- . Next to them is a token slot with a token return lever. Below is the token return bay. The front cover is attached with a single hinge, held by a padlock.
The Quest of the Golden Banana (2004)
> x vending machine (@ Museum Exit)
It's a machine for selling museum tickets. Near the top is a small vertical slot labelled ADMITTANCE THREE FARTHINGS - EXACT CHANGE ONLY, and lower down is the hole that presumably dispenses the tickets.
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