Conference on Xanadu

The Pirate Grand Counsel decided to send Estaban as their Envoy to meet with the concerned species regarding the "depredations" on the interstellar shipping lanes. The Spiders held the position that they were just doing what comes natural, and that if you didn't want to end up in one of their webs, you could steer clear of it! None of the talking parrots wanted the job, and the pirates themselves realized that they were just too comical looking themselves to be taken seriously. And, a few thousand light years away, Senior Analyst Shelby was getting prepped to be the Earth Envoy to the same conference. He had tried to shift it off to Lt. Willowby, but the higher-ups had noticed that he had been in the Nether Regions before, having pulled a tour in Trebizond, which is just slightly less crazy than Nod itself. He had shown the ability to accomplish the "willing suspension of disbelief" that HSS viewed as essential in an operative being dispatched to the Crazy Zone, which is how some persons referred to that region of Space where the laws of Physics had some how been usurped to varying degrees by the whims Magic and Fancy.