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

[pythbox]

"Sooooo," he says, "I could tell you all about things, or I could figure out a nice safe way to make you get solid on and off whenever you want... what're you feeling, here?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Oh, y'know, what if we don't have anything to say to each other, the usual," says Anna.

[endragoned]

"That is a good name. I will see your trees and make you a treehouse palace."

[lifes_sake]

[I haven't actually talked to Glass in particular about this, but the impression I get from monosexual Bells - who aren't Amariah, anyway, she's flexible about exact details here because daemons - is that it goes on being somewhat important which pronouns and which shape you are by default, and Ghosty gets interpreted as not having a default shape. And Queenie gets interpreted as having female default pronouns but not a matching default shape. If Glass works like that then Nona would be the first viable candidate.] Pause. [You might want to tell Etty, or get Nona to tell Etty, about this too, I could also see Glass asking Etty first to make sure she wouldn't be stepping on her toes.]

[snowandsparks]

"Monteverde, and the Eyrie, where the Archangel-Elect leads the host, are carved into mountains, lots of chambers and it's a long walk if you want to take the stairs. Windy Point used to be the least accessible of the lot, but then the Archangel Gabriel destroyed it and built Cedar Hills instead."

[thaumobabble]

"No idea. Something might come clear as I sort everybody."

[alicornucopia]

"Is both an answer?"

[temporal_affairs]

"The pair of you seem to get along just fine."

[pythbox]

[...mm,] says Jellybean. [What's me telling Etty gonna do?]

[giftedandtalented]

"Awesome. Just lemme know when's a good time and I'll make room in the schedule to show you around."

[newtimov]

"...For... reasons?"

[lifes_sake]

[Means Etty will be able to tell Glass if Glass asks her, instead of me having to go interrupt whatever Glass is doing - probably sorting people into moieties, have you heard about that yet? - and presume that it's useful information. A bit less awkward.]

[wildlymagical]

"Good luck."

[pythbox]

"Sure," he says, "but we still have to pick one to do first, I'm not that magic."

[snowandsparks]

"Oh, it was a den of wickedness, all of its angels were dead, half on Mount Galo and half because the previous Archangel Raphael had poisoned everybody who wouldn't go with him to Mount Galo." Pause. "Mount Galo is the first thing the spaceship everyone thinks is a god smites if we don't sing the Gloria every year, and that year the Windy Point faction wanted to skip it to prove divine impotence so Raphael could keep power instead of handing it off to Gabriel."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Yeah," says Eights, "it helps that we're so similar."

"I have no idea what a me who is a dragon would even be like," says Anna.

[thaumobabble]

"Thanks!" And she is off.

[lexicality]

"That was kinda weird."

[endragoned]

"After the party, perhaps."

[alicornucopia]

Minnie giggles. "Things first!"

[temporal_affairs]

"Like you, except a dragon, is I think the idea. I don't know that I'll be very helpful; the pair of me, when there was a pair, were a fork and we still didn't get along that well till we merged."

[pythbox]

[You could tell Etty,] Jellybean suggests. [Yeah, I got the news from the Joker grapevine. Apparently we're purple.]

[giftedandtalented]

"Sure, I have a longer blank space for it than I expect to need just in case it runs really long with all these people here meeting-and-greeting."

[newtimov]

"I take it that did not go as planned."

[wildlymagical]

"Yes," says Lycaelon.