User blog comment:TurtleShroom/Downright Interesting/@comment-477220-20101021171837

Maybe TammyShroom could be the parody of the brother, and maybe a composite parody of both the brother and Bessie. She's similar in appearance and personality already.

And I don't think Explorer's Deux ex Machina should destroy the machine in the story. It should just cause people to not know that Xet is an Alien, so Sye;s unluckiness keeps on going.