Jesse shakes his head, equally dumbfounded - then, swallowing hard, he leans over the counter and says, "Sorry for asking, bud, but... what's that in the back of your pants? That's quite a bulge!"
The bartender composes himself, while jumping to attention and looks around the room. "Who said that?"
"I did sir and I restate the question... what is in your pants?"
"I got exactly what you got there bud, but my snake is probably bigger than yours though."
Jesse's eyes widen and he smiles, not really sure of anything else to do. The bar tender stares into Jesse's eyes, as if looking into the depths of his soul.
"No, no, I meant what is the deal with the bulge in the back of your pants. Your 'Snake" as you called it is in the front of your pants..."
"Yes my observant friend, you are quite right. The second time you asked, not restating it word for word, you gave me the opportunity to add lib. The bulge at the back of my pants... well, that is my tail of course."
Jesse was completely surprised by what the hairy bartender said. He had a tail... but that was not possible!
"Excuse me, I don't think I heard you right. You said you have a tail?"
"Yes, that is exactly what I said!"
"Oh... ok! How exactly is that even possible. You are human just like me!"
"Well yes and no! I will explain the easy stuff, which will lead me into the bit about how I got my tail. As you know, human beings are an evolved and superior form of animals. Even when we are in the womb, developing and growing in our mothers, we have animal characteristics. We have a reptilian like tail, we have gills like a fish and our fingers and toes are webbed like a reptile or aquatic bird. Do you understand?"
"Yep, plenty of people know all that!"
"Good, now that you understand that, I can begin to explain what happens here. Pleasure Island has magical properties to it, if y'all haven't noticed by now. It is known to bring out the animal in you. Typically is changes people into donkeys, but for some of us, it brings out the animal we closely resemble or hold special to us. For me... I got a bear's tail and I am ok with that because I was always considered a bear by the gay people in the world outside of Pleasure Island. There are some others with a bear's tail or even a wolf's. Pretty much anyone who doesn't come here has a donkey tail."
"So are you tellin' me that I could grow a bear or wolf tail?"
"That is correct my human friend."
"Why did you call me you 'human friend'?"
"That's because you are human and none of us here are. We are all were's. Since I have a bear's tail, I became a werebear and the others who have a wolf's tail are werewolves."
"Cool... How do Josh and I find out what kind of tail we get?"
The bear bartender ducked under the counter, rattling some bottles and sat them up on the bar counter. As he poured the clear liquid into the shot glasses, pouring half of one then the other half with the different kind. The bartender nodded for them to take the shots. A bit hesitant, they picked up their shot glasses and threw them down quickly. They grimaced as the liquid went down, burning along the way and slammed the shot glasses down to show they were done with the shot. They looked at the bartender, feeling slightly funny and he smiled.
"So boys, what did you think about the Animal Revealer?"
"It was strong, but tasted good as it went down! So what happens now?"
"Well, it will take a moment or two, but we will see what kind of a tail you both get. You could be the same, it could be different. You could have one of the tails I mentioned earlier or one that I didn't. Typically the few I mentioned are the ones everyone here receives, but I have heard of a case where the man who drank here turned into a tiger, but he had to be put down because he ended up mauling a couple of the other guests here. If at anytime anyone transformed becomes dangerous, they are put down immediately because we want you to have a safe and pleasurable stay here at Pleasure Island!"
Jesse begins to feel pain is butt where a tail would be and he ripped a hole to see what he had.
"Hey Josh, what do I have?"