Bar Hunting
You swim into the Dive Bar, pausing to let your eyes adjust to the dim light, and to let your expectations adjust to your shabby surroundings. It's a pretty depressing scene: lounge lizardfish try to pick up disinterested alewives; a group of lost soles tries to drown their sorrows, only to find that their sorrows have gills; a seahorse asks for a drink, only to be told, "why the long face?"
You spot an old Sea Monkee sitting at the bar. Thankfully, he isn't making love to his tonic and gin, or any funny stuff like that -- he's just studying a racing form and nursing a beer.
As you approach, though, he stands up and walks to the back of the bar. He goes through an unmarked door and vanishes into the darkness behind it. You sigh and pull up a barstool to wait for him to come out.
Occurs at The Dive Bar. A one-time adventure.
References
- Apparently Grandpa wasn't Billy Joel's inspiration for the old man in "Piano Man".
