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

[lexicality]

"There's this thing - people don't actually believe it but like in cartoons and stuff if someone is trying to decide between a good and a bad choice, they get a tiny little demon and a tiny little angel, one on each shoulder, telling them what to do. Sometimes I call Bella my shoulder angel. My shoulder Bella, anyway."

[thaumobabble]

"Isn't it just? I can go check Sandy real quick if you're curious."

[wildlymagical]

Lycaelon laughs.

"There are legends here of the Dark being able to influence people in a similar way, but unfortunately I think those are true. And we have no angels."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Yes please," says Anna.

[lexicality]

"Well, since the shoulder angel and shoulder demon idea exists and everybody recognizes it, there are cartoons that, like, play with it, making it so there's only the one of them if the person is very good or very bad, or having them fight each other, or whatever."

[thaumobabble]

"Sure."

Pop. Glass goes and finds Sandy.

[snowandsparks]

"What's a Slayer?"

[wildlymagical]

"Ansharil sometimes turns into the Samaria kind of angel," he mentions.

[lexicality]

Lexi thinks about this. She tilts her head. "Okay, that's kinda weird."

[lookingforwardtoit]

While she is doing that, Eights says, "Hey Anna, could you fix my rib?"

"You can't fix it yourself?"

Eights shrugs. "It's not bugging me enough to be worth a torch."

"...yyyyyes, but... wait, do you mean you're not minted? I thought for sure you were," says Anna, blinking. "That's so weird, why not?"

[temporal_affairs]

"The Bells mostly seem to mint people who'll work for them. Or date them, in some cases."

[newtimov]

"A... magic... legendary... person. There is one of them at a time and she has superpowers and beats up evil things."

[wildlymagical]

"He likes the wings. So do the rest of us. They're very soft."

[snowandsparks]

"Are there any Bells whose own worlds don't frame them as special according to local - ideas of specialness? I heard somebody saying that the one who's hosting this party is a saint."

[lexicality]

"They look it! I haven't grabbed any though, Aurora says Angela says it's like grabbing their butts."

[thaumobabble]

Glass reappears. "Sandy's purple, and surprisingly unfazed about having me appear to him and suddenly name a color."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Well, I'm not a Bell," Anna is saying as Glass arrives.

"Does this mean Chainsaw is also purple?" says Eights. She touches the site of the formerly broken rib and smiles. "Ooh, thanks, Anna."

[newtimov]

"I suspect that in cases where they are not already special in some way, they arrange to be," says Ike.

[thaumobabble]

"Yeah, templates are all within the same moiety. I actually started noticing this when I spotted two people whose templates are not identical but are unusually close together, standing near each other. What about you not being a Bell?"

[wildlymagical]

"Yes," says Lycaelon.

[snowandsparks]

"Yeah, there's that," snorts Lucas. "I'm not actually sure if Isabella was already going to be the next Archangel or if she arranged it."

[lexicality]

Lexi blinks, then bursts out laughing again.

[lookingforwardtoit]

Eights laughs.

"Apparently nobody's minted Eights yet? I'm gonna fix that," says Anna.

[thaumobabble]

"Uh," says Glass, "in this particular case I'm not aware of any reason not to except a vague nervousness about her hanging out with Chainsaw, but in general don't just up and mint people without checking with some Bell, in your case Stella will usually be handiest."

[newtimov]

"Well, what's the difference?"