who will be coming?

[small_magics]

Aianon has made a plant in the open airless space above the surface of Thilanushinyel. It is a very, very large plant - some dragons will be attending the party, after all, even if Ansharil in particular is going to be assorted small things and stay on Sarion's person the bulk of the time.

The locals will be Sarion, her beloveds, their other beloved, the five conjured dragons (and their Bondmates, where applicable: Virgivere and Lissa), and Liselen - Magania has, as usual, declined, and so far no Bell party has featured Bell parents.

Amariah is bringing her boyfriend and spontaneous daughter and two of the spontaneous daughter's friends, as well as an Alethian instance of the Rupert template.

Shell Bell is bringing Pearl and Screwdriver.

Golden is bringing her usual large contingent, as usual not including her husband but including her daughter and daughter's grown fosterling (the other remaining at home) and his wolf, both mothers-in-law and one father-in-law, adopted siblings, staff members including the Joker and Nathan, and the children of the aforementioned.

Glass is bringing both wives, all three daughters, Kanim, and her cat. She invited Icarin and Valeria, but their parents are not willing to let them gallivant into other worlds unsupervised and had a scheduling conflict.

Stella's bringing a smattering of people including Alice, Anna, Sandy, Libby, Bridget, her college roommate Janine, and Lazarus.

Tab is bringing Aelise (but not Kers) and Luhan.

Etty is bringing only Nona.

Aether, likewise, brings no one but Celo.

Pattern comes with Ripper, Slipstick, Queenie, and Ghosty.

Aegis is accompanied by her four-bodied boyfriend, Merryweather, Whitlock, and Howlett.

Aurora comes with Brilliance, Lexi with her Device Persica, Agent Honey with her Device Adularia, and Beth.

Rose brings her husband and three children and her former apprentice, Luc.

Angela brings her husband, her four children, several of her friends, and some of those friends' children and grandchildren with and without wings. Keziah also brings a friend.

Juliet shows up with Soph, Minus, Red, Giles, James, Virginia, Minnie, Ike, and Val.

Cam brings Jellybean and Tilly and stops there.

And from unBelled worlds hail additional Sherlocks and Tonies, Darcy, Matilda, Pepper, and Eights.

Comments

[lexicality]

Lexi has once again (temporarily) exhausted her drive to be constantly around the available unicorn, so she has hugged Liselen a (temporary) goodbye and now is wandering around.

[wildlymagical]

Someone else who is wandering around catches sight of her nametag and smiles.

[lexicality]

Lexi pauses, looks at his nametag, rereads hers ("Hi! I'm from Rainbow and my name is Lexi!") and says, "What?"

[wildlymagical]

"Oh, sorry," says (according to his nametag) a [template unnamed] from Thilanushinyel whom you can call Lycaelon. "I just recognized the name. You're Liselen's huggy human friend, right?"

[lexicality]

"...I guess? Sure. I'm his huggy human friend. He's a unicorn, people who don't want to be his huggy human friends are either not humans or not thinking straight."

[wildlymagical]

...He giggles.

[lexicality]

"So you know him? Are you also his huggy human friend?"

[wildlymagical]

"Well... I'm human, and his friend, and I suppose I am huggy with some people, but not especially with him," he says.

[lexicality]

Lexi giggles. "Who're you huggy with, then?"

[wildlymagical]

"My Bondmates and co-Bonded, mainly."

[lexicality]

"Who're they? I don't subscribe to Jane's little newsletter, it makes me dizzy to have updates scrolling along."

[wildlymagical]

"You would know them as Aianon, Ansharil, and Sarion."

[lexicality]

"Oh, them. My sister's a Bell," she adds. "The only - or, no, not anymore. One of two with sisters, but the other sister isn't my alt, I'm my Bella's twin and she's a little sister."

[wildlymagical]

"Aha," says Lycaelon. "I'm not related to any templates. My alts are from Peace and Gift respectively and they're a lot more like each other than I am like them."

[lexicality]

"It's really a pity I don't have any alts because my name turns into nicknames so easily!"

[wildlymagical]

"Does it?" he asks, looking in puzzlement at her nametag.

[lexicality]

"Lexi is short for Alexandra," Lexi explains. "But I wouldn't mind going with a different shortening if I had an alt who liked 'Lexi' best too."

[wildlymagical]

"What else does it shorten to?" he wonders. "Lycaelon shortens to various things, but I don't like any of them."

[lexicality]

"Oh, Alex, Alli, Andi, Sandra, Sandy. And I have a middle name that I like okay, Phyllis."

[wildlymagical]

"I think I've heard about a Sandy around here somewhere, but I don't think he's an alt of you."

[lexicality]

"Oh, no, yeah, that's a different person," says Lexi, waving a hand, "so that wouldn't be the best nickname in this case, but it's still a nickname."

[wildlymagical]

"True," he says. "Does your world have magic? I can never remember which ones don't."

[lexicality]

"Yeah!" says Lexi. "I'm a mage actually! We're the world with Devices, if you heard about those. This one's mine." She holds up Persica on her necklace-chain. "Her name's Persica."

"Hello," says Persica's mechanical-ish voice.

[wildlymagical]

"...Hello," says Lycaelon. "I haven't heard about Devices, no."

[lexicality]

"They can turn into different shapes - Brilliance is one, even, but Persica doesn't have a humanoid shape, just the peach and the staff. She's a really keen staff though. And they do mana regulation - um, mana is the energy we use to do magic - and they have their own spells that they know."