The small green door just to the upper right of the large oak panelled one opens a crack and a thin hairy nose pokes around the edge of it. The whiskers at the end of the nose twitch a few times as it sniffs the air. It extends a little further until a pair of bright beady blue eyes can be seen.
The eyes glance furtively about, then the whole head disappears back through the door. A long, but not rat like tail now swings out of the door hole. It is followed by the glistening haunches as the legs scrabble about for a footing. The creature slowly lowers itself until it is hanging by its front paws fron the lower edge of the door frame. It is larger than it first had appeared, the body almost half the height of the large oak door it is about to drop past.
Like a giant lemming, it suddenly abandons caution and lets go completely, landing with a "thud" on the polished floor of the Tavern.
The strange creature sits up, looks around nonchalantly as if it had made a smooth entrance and did not look like the bastard offspring of an anteater and a wallaby. It half hops and half scuttles across the room and is just reaching full speed on its way to the Texas Exit when it hits the edge of the lime jello spilling over the edge of the pit. It is too late to check velocity or to alter direction. The beast suddenly finds itself on a tangent of the lime-scented pool.
It is strange how a particularly determined individual can reach the end of what should be logically possible - the way the coyote following the road-runner still runs in thin air for seconds before plummeting into the canyon. This particular animal shows no such fortitude. It reaches the half way point across the pit, shrieks like a bagpipe and lands spreadeagled iin the green slippery mess.....