Adventures of Figaro the Elephant

Figaro made a new friend! She's a cleric and a mage. A cleric is type of religious leader. A mage is a person who has learned how to use magic. Figaro's new friend is only half formed, so she doesn't have a name or any specific powers yet. Figaro doesn't mind; she thinks it's fun watching her friends learn how to do new things! But she does hope her new friend gets a name soon. She feels a little weird just calling her "my new mage friend." Figaro also learned about things called Rubik's Cube. It's a type of puzzle. The goal is to twist and turn it until each side has only one color on it. To some people, it's small enough to hold in their hands, but to Figaro and her new mage friend, it's a good sized lookout perch.  Figaro's new mage friend still needs a lot of colors added to her before she's ready to go into the world and protect her people, which is what the good cleric mages do. There were dozens of paints and th...

Figaro joins some of her friends on an evening out to see a play at the local theater. It was Figaro's first play and she loved it! They went to a special kind of theater called a Black Box theater. Most theaters can only be set up one way: the audience always sits in the same place, the stage is always in the same place, and the stage is usually far away from the audience. In a Black Box theater, they can move things around however they want, and the actors usually don't have lots of props or special effects. In this play, the audience sat on all four sides of the stage and the actors had lots of rolly chairs and imaginary tables. Figaro thought it was pretty fun, even though she couldn't always see the actor's faces. The play was called "Sense and Sensibility." It's about a family who are kicked out of their lovely home and have to make new friends in an unfamiliar place. The two main characters are sisters named Elinor and Marianne, who love e...