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

[lifes_sake]

Cam is pretty damn pleased too. Cute boy, pleased kissing, all is well.

[pythbox]

There are quite a lot of Jokers standing near him.

[manofmyword]

And they all think getting flung into walls is hilarious.

[deslandes]

Beast, appropriately enough, is the first one to recover and pounce on floofy Zeus for floofy snuggles.

[floofcoaster]

Fluffy Zeus flops onto his side and accepts cuddles!

[Yeah, I thought that'd get a laugh.]

[newtimov]

They could be at this for a while.

[lifes_sake]

They could.

[So do you prefer this display of affection public? Because there are less-public rooms available in the space plant.]

[newtimov]

Ike considers this!

He says [Hmm,] and disengages from kisses so he can think about it properly.

And then he says: "Yes I think that is a great idea."

[areyouabeer]

Howlett shrugs. "I've led an active life," he says dryly. "Made a few friends and a lot of enemies. I was pretty glad to outlive all the ones who had a habit of locking me up."

"I know the feeling," says Luhan.

[lifes_sake]

"I wonder if the space plant knows where to send us. Hey, space plant, where is an unoccupied room with a door?"

[small_magics]

"It would seem that Lycaelon is the odd one out of the three of you."

[pythbox]

"There are many rooms like that under the main floor, reachable by stairs next to the archways," says the space plant, in the mode of the Speech used by unthinking objects when queried about their physical structure.

[wildlymagical]

"Yeah," he says, "I know. Apparently there are a lot of template things that I missed out on because the magic of this world doesn't work that way."

[lifes_sake]

"Excellent." And Cam drapes an arm around Ike's shoulders and follows the space plant's directions.

[yovahs_kisses]

"It was fantastic," giggles Micaiah. "Oh, you're so fluffy!"

[small_magics]

"Apart from the Knight-Magery, which I suppose was as close as you could get."

[truthwright]

Kas pounces too. Petaal turns into a fluffy dragon along the same lines as Andrea and tackles her in midair; they land on Zeus's fluffy shoulder and commence snuggling it.

[floofcoaster]

Zeus licks the nearest Joker's face.

[areyouabeer]

"And Knight-Magery is...?" says Howlett.

[wildlymagical]

"Knight-Mages are a kind of Wildmage. Wildmages are... I don't know how to explain," he says. "But Knight-Mages in particular have... an unshakeable will, which I haven't yet had cause to demonstrate, and an affinity with the arts of war. And they're supposed to be bad at doing most magic, but I'm not."

[cardistry]

Brilliance giggles and kisses Zeus's nose in retaliation.

[newtimov]

Ike leans on him and beams the whole way down.

[small_magics]

"Thilanushinyel has three kinds of mage. Wildmages receive a set of three Books which contain spells, which they can perform at the cost of some personal energy and services done for the Wild Magic - the cost may be split among several parties, however. By contrast, High Mages pay only an energy cost and require more complicated materials and setup. Elfmages like myself have no such inconveniences, but cannot operate at all without dragons; elves who do not have dragons are only capable of 'small magics'."

[floofcoaster]

Zeus barks a wolfy laugh and his tail wags.

[lifes_sake]

And here is a room! With a door! And a bed. And nobody in it.