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

[tearingup]

"Nah," says Ripper, "you just reminded us of somebody for a second there."

[lifes_sake]

"In a good way?"

[tearingup]

"Mmm..." says Ripper.

"Yeah," says Keth, "we'll go with that."

[lifes_sake]

"I do prefer to be pleasantly reminiscent. Pleasantly everything, for that matter."

[tearingup]

"You're certainly pleasant to look at," says Keth.

[lifes_sake]

"So are the both of you. I had heard that Juliet found you hilarious but had no warning that you were this attractive."

[tearingup]

Ripper laughs. "You should've asked Pattern, then."

"Or Amariah," Keth says cheerfully.

"Want a closer look?" says Ripper.

[pina_colada]

Kerron's currently between conversations, having just lost Lily to a sudden idea of some kind that she didn't stick around long enough to describe or display in colorshape form. That's okay, somebody else interesting will come along soon enough. He looks around at colors and shapes to see if anybody wants somebody to talk to, especially if somebody could readily be him.

[lifes_sake]

"I definitely do. You wanna get a room?"

[tearingup]

"We definitely do!" says Keth.

[lifes_sake]

Excellent, then all of them can be teleported to a room, right? How about now? Here is a room.

[tearingup]

The Rippers laugh.

"Usually we like a little more warning with the teleporting," says Ripper.

"But we'll let it slide this time because you're so pretty," says Keth. Hecate leaves his shoulder to approach Grace.

[lifes_sake]

"I am very pretty, I'm glad you noticed."

Grace hops off Cam to a convenient daemon-sitting place.

"Ah, fair warning, Grace doesn't really talk to anybody except me, even other daemons," Cam remarks. "Not like Path. She'll snuggle up, though."

[pythbox]

Here is someone whose colorshapes look like heads of grain, emerging from an enclosed stairway next to the buffet table and grabbing a cup of hot chocolate.

Oh, and he's a Joker wearing nothing but an illusory censor bar. That too.

[pina_colada]

Kerron makes a noise too high for human ears to catch and scrunches his eyes shut. (Fortunately, his colorshapes don't actually rely on his eyes; he can still see the grain-shapes.) "That is way more than I prefer to see of people shaped like my mum!" he yelps.

[pythbox]

Celo looks at him.

"What—oh, fuck, you're the Joker's kid," he says. "I'm censored, aren't I?"

[tearingup]

"Fine by me," says Hecate. "Kit's not talkative either."

She snuggles up.

Keth and Ripper give Cam extremely similar speculative looks.

[pina_colada]

"Yeah, and you're still broadcasting the intention to go around stark naked for all eternity, and the censor bar covers up about forty percent of typically covered whatnot."

[lifes_sake]

Cam stands open for speculation. He spreads his arms and takes a step forward. And regards them openly, the one and then the other, like he's going to be giving an extremely sexy presentation later on their point-by-point similarities and minor differences.

Grace doesn't say a word, but she does laugh softly and put a wing over the smaller bird.

[pythbox]

Celo sighs. "It's a nymph thing, okay?"

[pina_colada]

"That does not make you less naked or less Mum-shaped."

[tearingup]

Hecate snuggles comfortably with Grace.

Ripper says, "I think this would be more fun with fewer shirts," and he and Keth take theirs off.

[pythbox]

"Would you rather I was just invisible to you or something?"

[lifes_sake]

Cam's is wished away before theirs are over their heads. Poof!

"I think you are absolutely right."

[pina_colada]

"Possibly! At least your colorshapes don't look like his." (Kerron's eyes are still firmly closed.)