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

[cheerfulish]

"I do not know very much about Eos at all," says Junia. "It is a world that has an Earth and is more or less like other worlds with Earths, and some magic comes from it."

[inherpiety]

"Minting is from Eos, unless I'm mixing it up? And ingots. I might be an ingot but we don't know yet. So might my little sisters but probably not Damaris."

[self_composed]

"Yeah, minting and ingots are both Eos things."

[cheerfulish]

"I am not either one of them," says Janine.

"Angels come from Samaria and I am one of those!" says Junia.

"I noticed," says Janine.

[inherpiety]

"Everybody who is an angel that I know on Samaria and isn't other places looks funny and overbalanced," says Keziah, waving at Janine and Stella both.

[self_composed]

"I did often use to overbalance. Not sure a set of wings would help. Hey, maybe Glass should look at you and see if you caught templatehood from me..." Stella waves Glass over.

[thaumobabble]

And over comes Glass, and Stella must catch her up by brainphone, because she peers at Janine and says, "Yep."

[cheerfulish]

"I am not sure how I feel about that!" says Janine.

"Me neither," says Junia.

[thaumobabble]

"I can't tell you how to feel about it. I've contagioused templatehood onto my cat and my best friend, it's kind of an occupational hazard of hanging out with Bells."

[cheerfulish]

"Your cat?" the Jnis ask, in exact unison.

[thaumobabble]

"...Cats in my world are people," clarifies Glass. "We haven't found any more of him yet, but any other Bells in a position to have sapient pets will have alts of Cricket. You may see him around here. He will be able to understand you but not vice-versa, I'm the only person who can do that."

[cheerfulish]

The Jnis make very similar faces.

[newtimov]

Someone wanders by.

[thaumobabble]

"Hey - Ike? Ike. Hang on a second -" says Glass suddenly. "C'mere?"

[newtimov]

"Yeeeeeeeees?" says Ike, turning around slowly.

[thaumobabble]

"Hi - stand over there? There's something..."

[newtimov]

Puzzled but cooperative, he stands over there.

[thaumobabble]

Glass stares at him, and at Jnis.

"This would be easier to see if Icarin were here too but I've looked at him before, so I can pretty much... your template and their template are closer together than most independent templates. You aren't the same thing, but like - if Jnis are metaphorical sisters, Ikes are metaphorical cousins to them."

[newtimov]

"I am not sure what to think of this!" says Ike.

[cheerfulish]

"You do seem to sort of talk like us," says Janine.

[thaumobabble]

"I'm just reporting what I see, I can't tell you what to do with the information."

[self_composed]

"So all the other templates are equally 'far apart'? And these ones are just - nearby each other?"

[thaumobabble]

"Y- no. No, we're not all equally far apart. Bells are closer to -" She looks around, sees her cat approaching, scoops him up. "Bells are closer to Cricket's template than to Jnis or Ikes. There's almost..." She puts Cricket down over his yowled protest, flies up, spins in the air to look at everybody. She lands again. "Now that I'm looking for it there are clusters. Two of them. Two slightly different - colors."

[newtimov]

"...Who belongs to which ones?" wonders Ike.

[thaumobabble]

"There's you and Jnis in the one color, Bells and Crickets in the other color, I think Sherlocks and Tonies are yours - These are not literal colors but maybe I should start referring to them as though they were anyway."