Two actor performances in the style of a scene out of a movie.
Adapted from the online web comic "At Arm's Length" - the Enchanters are a four-armed long-lived magic-using race from another world. They typically do not involve themselves in mortal affairs, believing themselves 'above' them. However, a handful of ethical young enchanters (only 300 years old!) take it upon themselves to defend Earth in a shadow war against evil magic users and rampant earthbound threats. They do get assistance from other magical beings from time to time, but an upcoming war means they must get help from everyone they can. This includes a stage magician, recently in possession of a top hat and wand with *real* magic, who uses it on stage to give superb performances for the enjoyment of all. Can the Enchanters convince the pacifist performer that his skills are needed in the upcoming battle for the existence of his very realm? Adapted from the web comic "At Arm's Length" by Darkwing Dork, available online at http://www.atarmslength.net
Angie has seen Prismo Decatur, or 'Prismo the Magnificent' as the marquee says, in action on stage, doing tricks that would be impossible with normal illusion art. She goes to his dressing room in a two-armed form to convince him that his powers would be needed on the battlefield. Prismo abhors the notion of fighting, despite the obvious risk in Angie revealing her true nature to him in a show of desperate faith.
She's been digging for a long time. When the wombat Digger gets lost in her tunnels, she ends up in a world far from home. With the guidance of an idol to the god Ganesh, she starts on a journey filled with peculiar characters, looking to find a way back.
A rainstorm has forced Digger to take refuge in a painted cave. When the resident hyena returns from a failed hunt, a wombat fist to the nose keeps him hungry. Knowing she's trespassing, Digger willingly turns to leave but is stopped when the hyena stumbles through a chant of offered welcome. Preferring her strange host over the rain, Digger cautiously spends the night.
In a bizarre legal case, Enoch's minor infraction activated an undiscovered city law that required his castration. And with elections coming up, the incumbent city attorney sticks to his policy of unquestioned obedience to the law. But when a friendly doctor freezes the tissue and assures he can reattach it, Enoch begins a quest to find a loophole forcing the judicial system to give him back what's rightfully his--his balls.
As punishment for his jaywalking, as prescribed by city law, Enoch has been sent to hospital for mandatory castration. When he wakes up from the general anaesthetic, he meets the doctor who performed the procedure and learns that he may have a slim chance at getting back what's rightfully his.
Fired from his stock broker job due to stress, Walter Benswar finds the opposite problem of being unemployed and stir crazy while waiting for employment. He begins to question his sanity when he starts hallucinating his apartment neighbors dying in gruesome ways, and not being able to tell if he was committing the murders in a stupor of ennui. Until he hallucinates his OWN death.
Walter, after having been questioned and released by the police department, has apparently awoken to blood on his paws, a carving knife in one of them. He is standing in the apartment of his rabbit neighbor Janice, and her brutally stabbed body at his feet. As he is trying to make sense of it all, he hears the voice that has been giving him his hallucinations. His id-based desires. And now, his murderous rampages.
The dams may have given the city its water supply, but it also flooded the farms, turning good fields into worthless swamp. Of course, the city hoofers never did care much for the country, leaving the now out-of-work horses, donkeys and cattle to fend for themselves. While most just made the best of it, one donkey's ambition led him to stealing goods from the city, a major crime that made him a lot of enemies. But also the loyalty of Colette, his mare girlfriend, who hid him in the swamp after his bold escape from jail. Now with the swamp sheriff smelling an opportunity at some fat reward money, it's a fight to hide the longear as long as she can.
Runson did what Colette asked and poisoned the coffee he pours for the sheriff every morning. But when morning rises, the honest mule has a change of heart. But before he can warn the stubborn old bull, he learns that the sheriff has his own problems with the unlucky longear.
When a dingo scavenger comes across a wrecked truck in the middle of the outback, he finds an incredible rifle in the cab with a pair of dead kangaroos. But then he finds more than he bargained for as the sole survivor of the crash turns out to be an armadillo gagged and tied up in the back, opening up a mystery for the desert dog.
Sam and Murphy make it out of another kangaroo trap alive by the skin of their teeth. But while the two are unharmed, their relationship take a near fatal blow. Just before they escaped, one of the boomers expressed shock to Murphy when he found out the dingo was helping Sam get away. "Don't you know what we brought him here for?" the roo asked before they fled, leaving Murphy with the nagging feeling Sam isn't the hero he thought. Shortly before the pair met, a dingo chief named Benny was mysteriously killed while standing in his fortified compound. Murphy never knew who killed the deeply loved leader, but he may have found out.
Chicago. 1929. The streets run red with the blood from Al Capony's ruthless gangs, controlling everything from bootleg liquor to state senators. And when he needs the top driver and gunner to do his dirty work - there's no way in hell he'd choose these two bozos. But Tony Provolone is a ferret with a mission to be the best getaway driver for the mob, and the tommygun-toting grizzly bear Vinny Mozzarella will do anything to prove he's got what it takes to be the G-man. Even if they both have to fake it the whole way. When they're marked for an 'early retirement', the two have to put their differences aside and find out who set them up, before they nap with the fishes. Or something like that. Whaddya want, I ain't no college boy!
After getting chewed out by a lieutenant in the mafia for bringing stale lasagna to the gang meeting, the two are sent out on a drive by hit, the target unknown until they open an envelope presumably assigned to them. As they argue, they realize they took another duo's assignment by mistake, and the intended targets make the two very nervous.
The year is 1938 in Stapleton, Georgia, a small town run by the unpopular but politically shrewd lion mayor Gregory Gassoula, and his pride of eight wives. After a particularly heated town hall discussion with a councillor over zoning rights and an argument with a WWI veteran citizen over rerouting government benefits to his slush fund, the mayor typically took his frustrations out on his wives, who all dealt with the verbal - and sometimes physical - abuse in different ways. But someone, somewhere had had enough. One morning, one of Gregory's wives found the lion in a bloody, mangled mess. Someone had torn him apart in a rage. In this small town, every person is a suspect, and the local sheriff has his paws full separating truth from fiction to find the killer before he or she escapes!
Sandra Gassoula (maiden name Hanson) is one of Gregory's pride of wives - almost the youngest, and certainly the most manipulative of the bunch. She wields her charm and sexuality like a lethal weapon, cutting down the resistance of males to get what she wants. Previously, she was very intent on serving divorce papers to the mayor, in an attempt to wiggle out of the prenupital agreement and score some of his wealth with her freedom. The savage death of the mayor meant she no longer needed to file for divorce, and fearing that would make her too much of a suspect, has come to the office of Mr. Cameron Deets, a sergal acting as town clerk, and a soft spot for the lascivious lioness.
Gather ye around, and let me spin the tale of the Mighty Sir Render, the boar knight who singlehandedly ran away from every battle he ever faced, at whom cowards scoff and birds excrement upon! And tell also the tale of the fair Maiden Tiewahn, the exotic red panda princess whose hand in marriage he so desired, but could only attain if he proved his courage! It is a short story, alas...
The 'Brave' Sir Render, having tracked the source of the livestock disappearance, comes upon a dragon in his lair - which is little more than a hole in the side of the mountain. Upon confronting the dragon, the two try every trick in the book to discourage the other from attacking.