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

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Do you think I should offer him a Janegem?"

[wildlymagical]

"True," he says. "Does your world have magic? I can never remember which ones don't."

[pythbox]

"You could. He might not take it," he says.

[lexicality]

"Yeah!" says Lexi. "I'm a mage actually! We're the world with Devices, if you heard about those. This one's mine." She holds up Persica on her necklace-chain. "Her name's Persica."

"Hello," says Persica's mechanical-ish voice.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Of course. It would mostly be useful in case he spontaneously learned to freecast. He can already talk to her at any time as long as he's at home, and he could turn it off if he didn't want her looking at him."

[pythbox]

"Well, he doesn't have Harley's reason to spontaneously freecast," says Corona. "But yeah, it could happen. Would you miss him if it did?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Not yet, really, I'm still quite prepared for him to ask for a ride to a randomly selected world's version of some large city and some of the local currency. If he stays long enough, of course."

[newtimov]

"It is unexpected!" he agrees.

[snowandsparks]

"My mother was - I'd almost call her apologetic - every time she told me a new tidbit about the multiverse. She finds it all overwhelming. She's not even here."

[pythbox]

"I think maybe you better not offer him a Janegem until you would," he says. "If spontaneous freecasting is the reason. He won't take a way to come back unless he thinks he'll want to. And even if you tell him all about what happened to Harley, I don't think he'll expect to want to come back unless he expects you to miss him and cares that you would."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Okay, I'll wait on that then."

[newtimov]

"My mother and my father live in different subworlds of the Sunshine worldsheaf, so their tolerance for extradimensional shenanigans is fairly high," he says. "They might even come to a party someday."

[pythbox]

He nods.

[snowandsparks]

"...Worldsheaf."

[wildlymagical]

"...Hello," says Lycaelon. "I haven't heard about Devices, no."

[lexicality]

"They can turn into different shapes - Brilliance is one, even, but Persica doesn't have a humanoid shape, just the peach and the staff. She's a really keen staff though. And they do mana regulation - um, mana is the energy we use to do magic - and they have their own spells that they know."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Thank you," Elspeth adds.

[newtimov]

Ike giggles.

"Okay. There are worlds that are separate, like Samaria and Sunshine and Thilanushinyel. But sometimes there are groups of them that are not separate from each other - that have their own internal ways to get from one to another that don't work for traveling outside of that sheaf, and the worlds in the sheaf share the same laws of physics and kinds of magic and so on, at least mostly. Sunshine is a worldsheaf like that, and I think Alethia is too, and I forget if I've heard about any others."

[pythbox]

Corona smiles.

[snowandsparks]

"This is complicated."

[wildlymagical]

"That is not at all how magic works in Thilanushinyel."

[lexicality]

"What do you do instead?"

[wildlymagical]

"...I'm not entirely sure how to explain," he admits. "I've never had to before."

[lexicality]

"I don't have any place to be," laughs Lexi.

[newtimov]

"It is! It is very that," says Ike.