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

[mute_pen]

"Why?"

[temporal_affairs]

"I was already potentially immortal, but practically speaking no vampires have cleared four millenia."

[toblameforit]

All of the Tonies except Red go, "Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!"

Red just grins and hugs her.

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Pff. Small change," Eights says fondly.

[keyed_up]

Hugs!

[temporal_affairs]

He elbows her. (Maybe another rib will break, maybe not!)

[growcrooked]

"Well, because I don't want to," she says. "I like the Jokers because... they're comfortable. It wouldn't be so comfortable with him. If there weren't so many Jokers I might not know the difference so well, or if we weren't all immortal I might do it because now is better than never, but I can wait until I'm comfortable, so I am."

[lookingforwardtoit]

No more than a crack. She giggles.

[mute_pen]

"Bells aren't comfortable?"

[pythbox]

Arianna looks speculatively at them.

[temporal_affairs]

"What?" asks Nathan.

[growcrooked]

"Not the way Jokers are. Why?"

[pythbox]

"Didn't that hurt?" she says.

[mute_pen]

"I'm one. I don't know how this is all - interacting."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Yeah," says Eights.

[pythbox]

Arianna grins a dragony grin.

"Is that a template thing?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Looks like!" says Anna.

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan laughs. "You're not the only template that does it, either."

[growcrooked]

"If I'd just met you today and you wanted to have sex with me I'd say no," she says. "But I didn't. I know you and I love you. It's a different thing."

[pythbox]

"Which other ones?" says Arianna.

[mute_pen]

Snuggle. "I guess Cam isn't enough like me to count but the Jokers are enough like you to count?"

[toblameforit]

Snuggy hugs!

"So if you wanted to make out with some of us," says Fusion, "that would be pretty cool."

[temporal_affairs]

"Jokers, most notably. I think the Bells who don't have those get their Sherlocks to help, although I don't think it's that extreme in those cases. Stella has Sandy working for her as a mint, I'm not sure whether in his case that's a template thing or an individual trait."

[keyed_up]

"Myyyy internal magic eight-ball says okay!"

[growcrooked]

"To be enough like you to count for what you count for he'd have to be you. Jokers are enough like me to count for something else. I understand them, and they understand me, and we all know how to make each other feel good and not hurt each other except in ways we like. And if there's anything going on that someone might not notice we can just pass it through War. So fucking them is just... not even a little bit scary, in a way I didn't even know could happen until I got used to them, and even then I didn't really notice until Jellybean said Cam wanted to fuck me and I thought about whether or not I wanted to."