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

[small_magics]

"This may or may not make you the oldest human in the party. I will go and look for the third one of you."

And she goes and looks for the third one of them.

[floofcoaster]

Eventually Alice is located.

She makes kind of a face. "Jokers give me a headache," she sighs, but she closes her eyes anyway. "No, no explosions, not even Edward's weirdness around Bella's alts, you're fine."

"Thanks!" says Zeus.

[areyouabeer]

"Hi," says Luhan, raising an eyebrow. He is remarkably similar to Howlett: same apparent age, same mannerisms, roughly the same style of dress and personal grooming.

[lifes_sake]

"Excellent," says Cam, "that's very convenient."

Ike is shorter than he is, so Cam just leans right down and kisses him.

[small_magics]

"I See you. Your alts have met, and you could join them, were you so inclined."

[pythbox]

"Thanks!" beams Harley. "Sorry about your headache!"

And he leads Zeus to the predictable location of a large number of Jokers: the orgy chambers located among the roots of the space plant, under the main room and its encircling platform.

[areyouabeer]

"Might as well," says Luhan.

[small_magics]

Pop!

[newtimov]

Kisses! Kind of grinny kisses. Hopefully that is okay.

[floofcoaster]

Zeus is sufficiently Harleysexual that he wasn't likely to wander into an orgy for reasons of his own, but he's also a wolf with the consequent casualness around both nudity and personal privacy. He follows his imprint happily.

[areyouabeer]

Luhan and Howlett... just kind of stare at each other.

[lifes_sake]

It is okay, if a little giggle-inducing.

[small_magics]

Sarion giggles a little.

[pythbox]

Anyway, Harley brainphones ahead, and when they enter the correct room everyone is mostly just snuggling.

"Hi, everybody! This is Zeus, he's my wolf and he's the best," he says, giving Zeus the huggiest of hugs.

[gunpowdergelatine]

"Aww, you're adorable," says Queenie from amid the general pile. "Wanna hug?"

[floofcoaster]

Zeus does not need to worry about Andrea coming into contact with other Jokers, so he just says, "Okay!"

[newtimov]

Giggles can be a bad sign, but in this case Ike tentatively concludes that they are okay.

Kisses. Kisses are nice. Cam is so pretty. Also he is very kissable.

[lifes_sake]

Cam is pretty and kissable and nice! Ike is also those things.

This kiss should be accompanied by more of a hug. The one of Cam's arms that is not attached on one end to Ike's hand participates in bringing this about.

[gunpowdergelatine]

Queenie extricates herself and comes up and hugs the Zeus-and-Harley concatenation.

She is extremely cuddly. The cuddliest. Magically cuddly. It's pretty great.

[floofcoaster]

"You are really cuddly!" Zeus observes.

[newtimov]

A hug! Hugs are nice too. Ike squeaks, but it is a delighted sort of squeak. And he hugs back.

[wildlymagical]

So does Lycaelon.

[lifes_sake]

[You are adorable.]

(This particular use of the brainphone is a large fraction of its use cases, really.)

[small_magics]

"Perhaps you are also older than you look," Sarion ventures to say to Luhan.

[gunpowdergelatine]

"I am," Queenie agrees. "I have an aura of cuddly. Well, also an aura of fuckable, but you won't be meeting that one."