As you head down the hallway you see a doorway leading towards the south of the building, but when you glance past the doorway into the exhibit room, you see some thing staring back at you.
It is roughly the size and shape of a man, with two arms and two legs, but it has the head of dog or perhaps a Jackal, with two wicked looking claws at the end of it's powerful arms. It snarls at you and looks like it's ready to charge.
[sblock=OOC]I moved all of you into a semi-circle around the doorway but on the north side of it, the critter is about 20 feet to the south. Each of you go before it, so you can take an action, either using a ranged weapon or another move to get into melee range, but then you won't be able to attack.[/sblock]