Hitchhikers and Appetizers

Trellis and Hortaio learn about the planet Stowpage and their main industry of Cruising. If there’s one thing Horatio loves about Cruises it’s planning his time around their buffets but he didn’t have plans for how to deal with the pirates.

Lazenbag Grabbag stops by booth 42 with his food cart and blowhole (not his) full of cheese. Hortaio, unsurprisingly, decides to go for a dip in it.

Daddy Porksskins is from the planet Tenalp which is shaped like a chubby C because something (they don’t know what or really care) took a gigantic bite out of it. Also if you want to be something or someone’s “Daddy” this is the planet for you.

High Prefect Groth comes to Booth 42 bringing with him word of the squishy glory of the seven tentacled one Octoculan. He also leans into the religion’s seventh tentacle of knowledge…always be marketing.

Trellis and Horatio welcome a guest from an obscure backwater planet. She’s Myrte Lundquist and she was abducted from some place called Minnesota back in the planet’s mid-1900s.

Graig comes from Gorlax where he runs his family’s intergalactic business which prides itself on innovations in sentient and consenting meat products.

Tinderella is a dating app from the planet Swipey where everyone is a dating app. Trellis tries to pitch a reality dating show, starring himself of course and Horatio has a dream date with a giant mouth.

Bradley is from Trunkonia where the more trunks you have the higher your status. She comes to Booth 42 expecting a speed dating experience, but she got a lot more… or at least twenty-five more minutes with Trellis and Horatio than she was expecting.

An amiable hydrogen particle named Hydrogeeeen floats around Booth 42 and we learn that he’s a bit of a celebrity.

Trellis and Horatio are honored to welcome the planet Stankonia’s worst private investigator Haronius Flexador to Booth 42.

Gogi is from the very very very dry planet Kuring where anything can and is turned into jerky. And that’s why it’s the jerky capital of the galaxy

Gron and their archival robot take refuge in Booth 42 when their home planet of B-Believe and its immense irreplaceable archives are destroyed by the evil Klakor Collective.

Schlizz and Schlov are a father and son from the planet Souvenaire whose main industry is creating souvenirs to sell to the rest of the galaxy. 

Gor Borgor is from a planet that orbits three suns, so it gets pretty hot there. How hot? So hot that they export their suntan lotion-like sweat.

Ambassador Frawl from the planet Chillaxon brings his culture’s philosophy of chill and relaxation to Booth 42. Trellis and Horatio do their best not to harsh his buzz.

Eeeeka, the goddess of small irritations, finds that the seeds of her work are growing much fruit in Booth 42. Trellis and Horatio have been accidentally worshipping her by naturally irritating other beings for years.

Glorp, Pasco, and Jim are three alternating and distinct personalities sharing the same body and that’s perfectly natural on their home planet of Trisket.

Steve is the lead sanitation engineer around, but when he travels the galaxy, he’s not just searching for trash, he’s seeking out treasure. 

Mohave Cashew is from the moon Renato where the inhabitants subsist mainly on snails consumed using ensnailers. Also his funnel shaped mouth also functions as an arm.

Buck the Beaver, son of Buckees of the galactically popular fuel-replenishing stations, drops by our booth to gnaw on the table legs and do some market research.

Zocrates shows us that if meaning doesn’t come from his home planet of Minong, it doesn’t have meaning at all.

The Big Hoboswki, space hobo extraordinaire, takes a break from the space roads to rest his bindle in Booth 42 and tell us his tales from the hyperspace road.

Twelve is an organic lifeform from the planet Gornay where they do things the corporate way.

Our illustrious guest is a big deal pop star from the planet Breakout who goes by the name Solo. He lets us hear three notes from his next big hit and Trellis tries to get added to his rider.