Two actor performances in the style of a scene out of a movie.
In a distant solar system, a group of tree-living astronauts were sent out on a mission to find another inhabitable planet for their arboreal way of life. When they returned, they found their planet obliterated. Stranded, the team tries desperately to piece together clues of what happened, and more importantly, find any remnant of their civilization. Low on resources, the crew's odyssey finds them battling despair, mutiny, and dwindling chances of survival. Can they find their home, in a new world, before their search destroys them?
Jinix, after being threatened by Captain Horgrath during their argument, decides to take matters into his own paws. The squirrel starts secretly sowing seeds of distrust in fellow crew members, inciting them into a mutiny. Ta'ina, the ship doctor, has been eating in the galley when Jinix sits down and shares his plan, hoping for her support.
In the future, low end jobs have been replaced with either robots, or androids where a more 'personable' interaction is needed. All are mass-produced to ensure no citizen is denied their service. At a 99% success rate, the largest producer of these wonders - Andromorph, LTD - was seated to be the world leader in anthropomorphic androids, with the 1% being swiftly, and some might say brutally, dealt with. But when one of their 'customer service' models - Unit RAE4423 - breaks out of his programming, he is hunted, framed and vilified. It is only when a group of android-rights furs contacts the unit to help them bring the message of equal rights for all humanoids, that he takes the fight to his creators - where the TRUE designs are revealed. Can 'Ray' overcome these odds and give freedom to his fellow androids, or is he doomed to be reprogrammed into a lifetime of servitude again?
RAE4423 (The bio-furs just call him 'Ray') was purchased by the 'Body Boutique' (An implant store for wealthy furs to get communication or other cybernetic enhancements installed) to be the raccoon-face of customer service. When a particularly abusive customer goes too far, Ray's standard programming crashes, only to be replaced with baser instincts of fight and flight.
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.
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...
Sir Render had defeated the ogres that had plagued the town, using nothing but a lucky shot from his bow and arrow to cause an avalanche and crush them. Now the hero of the kingdom, the 'brave Sir Render' finds himself alone with his heart's desire, the beautiful Maiden Tiewahn. But he has one more challenge to overcome! His 'Biggest' one yet!
At one time this was a dog's city, but the rats organized themselves in the sewers, biding their time, slowly chipping away at the power structures above. Now the rats have taken over, running everything above and below ground, forcing the dogs into a leashed subclass with no hope to regain their freedoms. That is until one terrier steals a map to the sewers and plans an attack to retake the city.
All his life, Carter Wilson wanted to get away from the forest's wolfpack and live in the city with the “decent” folk. When he finally had the opportunity, he took it and made his life in the city, breaking his family's heart and alienating his friends. But after realizing the city is just as savage as the forest, he comes back to regain his place. But will the pack take him? Or has he burned that bridge, and must now use the savagery he gave up to reclaim his identity?