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

[newtimov]

"Interesting! I wonder why. Do you have a bunch of common animals that the rest of us don't, or are you just generally undersupplied?"

[pythbox]

"Didn't think so," he giggles.

[snowandsparks]

"So far I haven't mentioned anything except angels and gotten a 'we don't have those'. Uh, horses? Cows? Cats? Rabbits? Chickens? Hawks? Mice? Doves? ...Salmon?"

[keyed_up]

"So you're from the world that broke Jane, right? With the therapist-Bell?"

[pythbox]

"Yep, that's me."

[keyed_up]

"I have a really, really hard time imagining Bella as a therapist, but maybe that's just my one."

[newtimov]

"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes," says Ike. "That's really interesting. What do the rest of us have that you don't?"

[pythbox]

"Aether isn't actually trained yet," he says. "She's going to school to learn to be a mental healer, 'cause that's where she felt like she could do the most good with the smallest splash. But I don't think she's bad at it or anything."

[snowandsparks]

"Penguins, apparently. Demons. Dragons, I guess, if those are an animal? We also don't have that vaguely goatlike thing I saw wandering around with a single antler or whatever it was coming out of its forehead."

[keyed_up]

"My Bella kind of spent a while having problems that were best solved by blunt force trauma."

[pythbox]

"Ooh, blunt force trauma to who?"

[keyed_up]

"Miscellaneous demons!"

[newtimov]

"That would be a unicorn," says Ike. "I don't think we have unicorns in my world either. I also don't think we have dragons, but I wouldn't be astonished if I found out that we actually did have one or both of those."

[pythbox]

Celo giggles. "Sounds like fun."

[snowandsparks]

"Also I definitely don't know about any animals that live in my world but not on my planet," Lucas adds.

[keyed_up]

"Sometimes. One time a magical construct thing stomped on her and she was in the hospital for a while."

[newtimov]

"And your planet... is not Earth, right? So actually if you have an Earth in your world and you don't live on it, it would make a lot of sense if your planet had some subset of Earth species, because whenever humans made the trip in the first place they probably brought a bunch with them but it would be really difficult to bring every single species on Earth to some new planet. There are a lot."

[snowandsparks]

"Yeah, the planet is just called Samaria. So is the main continent. It's not as confusing as it sounds."

[pythbox]

"Aww, that's sad. Well, okay, it sounds like a fun time to me, but I recognize that not everybody likes getting stomped."

[newtimov]

"It sounds moderately confusing," says Ike.

[keyed_up]

"She almost died. She would've done if Amariah hadn't put protective spells on her. Usually when Slayers get hurt they pretty much pop right back up or they're dead. I mean, then she actually did die, but I didn't find out about that until she was already back up walking around from Downside."

[snowandsparks]

"It's usually pretty easy to tell from context. If you're sailing to Samaria, you mean the continent. If you're taking a spaceship, you mean the planet. If 'Jane' is helping then you mean the world."

[pythbox]

"Yeah," he says, "readily available resurrection is pretty great, isn't it?"

[keyed_up]

"Yeah!"

[newtimov]

"Contextual distinctions!" says Ike, giggling.