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

[wildlymagical]

Someone else who is wandering around catches sight of her nametag and smiles.

[lexicality]

Lexi pauses, looks at his nametag, rereads hers ("Hi! I'm from Rainbow and my name is Lexi!") and says, "What?"

[newtimov]

"Glass can see things about alts and stuff. She discovered earlier that apparently everybody here is in one of two groups, and the Joker came by and named them 'purple' and 'green'. I'm purple. We don't really know anything about them except for who's in which ones, and that people who are alts of each other are always in the same group."

[snowandsparks]

"...Okay. That's very strange."

[wildlymagical]

"Oh, sorry," says (according to his nametag) a [template unnamed] from Thilanushinyel whom you can call Lycaelon. "I just recognized the name. You're Liselen's huggy human friend, right?"

[lexicality]

"...I guess? Sure. I'm his huggy human friend. He's a unicorn, people who don't want to be his huggy human friends are either not humans or not thinking straight."

[newtimov]

"It is!"

[snowandsparks]

"So she's just going around, pointing at people, naming colors."

[wildlymagical]

...He giggles.

[her_imperial_radiance]

She doesn't press that point, but: "Felicity mentioned his stepfather's name. It's not the usual unpleasant parental figure name."

[newtimov]

"We have just seen inarguable evidence of that, yes."

[lexicality]

"So you know him? Are you also his huggy human friend?"

[snowandsparks]

"Okay then. This is a really strange party. The previous contender for weirdest party I've ever attended was the one where everyone was drunk and singing bawdy lyrics to the tunes of masses."

[pythbox]

Corona nods. "It's stepfathers for us, fathers for the big cluster, mostly fathers for everybody else - all the ones with the 'usual unpleasant parental figure name' are in the big cluster."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Hmm."

[wildlymagical]

"Well... I'm human, and his friend, and I suppose I am huggy with some people, but not especially with him," he says.

[lexicality]

Lexi giggles. "Who're you huggy with, then?"

[pythbox]

"Only me'n'Felicity and the big cluster have anybody with a Gotham attached," he adds. "We think that's probably important but we're not sure how."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"I don't know either."

[wildlymagical]

"My Bondmates and co-Bonded, mainly."

[newtimov]

Ike giggles. "It doesn't really compare, does it."

[lexicality]

"Who're they? I don't subscribe to Jane's little newsletter, it makes me dizzy to have updates scrolling along."

[snowandsparks]

"It doesn't! Even though the songs were highly entertaining. This is - nobody at home who isn't here would get it."

[pythbox]

"Yeah," says Corona, "figures. None of us have much to go on."

[newtimov]

"That," says Ike, "is definitely a feature of Bellparties."