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

[alicornucopia]

Minnie's entertainment (they had a sign on the door; she omitted to ask first about permission to supervise) having dispersed, she is now floating visibly - but, as usual, insubstantially - about the party.

[pythbox]

One of Minnie's entertainers is browsing the buffet! He is still naked. An illusory black rectangle obscures certain parts, but it goes away very obligingly at the observer's whim.

(His nametag - which he wasn't wearing last time she saw him - is rather longer than the usual ones. Apparently he's a Joker from Materia whose name is... something... but you can call him Celo. And yes he is naked. And yes it's on purpose.)

[alicornucopia]

Minnie experiences whim! And she grins, and in spite of the nametag feels compelled to gleefully remark on the fact that: "You're naked!"

[pythbox]

Ooh.

"Yes I am," says Celo, grinning right back. "Hi!"

[alicornucopia]

"Hi! I saw you naked before, too - there was a sign on the door! It was very considerate! - but you didn't have your nametag on like that then."

[pythbox]

"I didn't, yeah," he says with a laugh. "It would've just gotten in the way."

[alicornucopia]

Minnie nods. "I noticed!"

[pythbox]

"Wanna go get a room where you can look at me naked some more?" he inquires, grinning.

[alicornucopia]

"...You are already completely naked right here. What would the room do?"

[pythbox]

"I could do things it wouldn't be polite to do out here," he says. "You could help."

[alicornucopia]

"I can't really help," she says, waving a hand through his shoulder. It's slightly chilly. "I can only be solid when I'm really mad."

[pythbox]

"Well, one, there's plenty of things we could do that don't need physical contact," he says, "and two, do you like being that way? Because I bet we could change it."

[alicornucopia]

"Do I like it? No, it's kind of inconvenient. I like being able to go through stuff and pop in and out, though. What are the things? I want to know what the things are."

[pythbox]

"Come get a room with me and I will tell you all about the things," laughs Celo. "I'm trying to be a good nymph here and not shock any eavesdroppers."

[alicornucopia]

"Okay," says Minnie, and she drifts after him, presuming he is so kind as to lead her roomward.

[pythbox]

He is, in fact!

"I could make it so you can be solid when you want to be," he offers on the way.

[alicornucopia]

"I'd probably lose track of something and wind up solid and also halfway through a wall."

[pythbox]

He grins. "There's ways around that."

[alicornucopia]

"Like what?" asks Minnie.

[pythbox]

"I could just make it that trying to go solid while you're halfway through a wall doesn't work and doesn't hurt," he shrugs. "I don't think it'd be that hard. I have safe wishes to play with."

[alicornucopia]

"Oooh," says Minnie. "I didn't think of anything that complicated or I might've asked Juliet."

[pythbox]

"Yeah, it's hard to really get what safe wishes can do," says Celo. "Look, a room!"

Into the room he goes.

[alicornucopia]

Minnie goes in too. Through the wall.

[pythbox]

"Sooooo," he says, "I could tell you all about things, or I could figure out a nice safe way to make you get solid on and off whenever you want... what're you feeling, here?"

[alicornucopia]

"Is both an answer?"