Clustered around an archaic surface, a convocation of rodents partake in a lively bout of gambling, the vapors from one's cheroot commingling with the stale atmosphere. A solitary mouse sports a monocular lens, lending an air of sophistication to the otherwise unsavory tableau, immortalized in the eternal brushstrokes of oil pigment. BREAK Within the twilit confines of a retirement manor, whiskered punters assemble for their nightly ritual of sport and plunder, the smoldering ember at one's muzzle casting a balefire pall. One sage murine affixes a quizzing glass as stakes are weighed on faded baize, the entire vignette captured in the classical oils of a Hollandic grandmaster. BREAK An implausible coterie of sharp- fanged wagerers convenes in a forgotten alcove of the senescent abode, paws riffling the pasteboards as coils of indigo haze eddy. A lone mus dons pince- nez spectacles upon its snout, regarding the proceedings with a discriminating gaze while lavish impasto immortalizes the instant in aristocratic portraiture. BREAK This retirement bastion's dusty nook hosts an unseemly concourse of gambolin' vermins, swingin' a soiree of hazard round some cadgy table's brim. Unibrow tamps his briar as Smokestack belches tar into the gloom, crimson madders and golden ochers embalming their shady transactions in Renaissant grandeur