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

[temporal_affairs]

"I have heard that there are dragons. One of them is an alt of the Joker."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"One of them is an alt of us," says Anna.

[temporal_affairs]

"That sounds interesting!"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"We haven't met her yet," says Eights.

"Because I'm a coward," says Anna cheerfully. Eights gives her a fond look.

[temporal_affairs]

"What's to be scared of? Even if she was going to chew you up and swallow you I wouldn't expect that to be terribly off-putting, considering."

[lookingforwardtoit]

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

[temporal_affairs]

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

[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.

[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."

[lookingforwardtoit]

Eights pats him on the arm.

[temporal_affairs]

"But we got that handled and now I'm fine. And I don't think either of you are mad at your dragon alt for putting the moves on your boyfriend, am I right?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"No," snorts Eights. Anna giggles.

[temporal_affairs]

"So you are quite without my problem."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Very," they agree simultaneously.

[temporal_affairs]

"Has this one got a Chainsaw-alt associated with her?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Yeah," says Anna. "Sandy's met him. He's an elf. They haven't met each other, though."

[temporal_affairs]

"Huh, an elf. I don't know what conclusions to draw from that."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"He has pointy ears and doesn't like questions," says Anna. "And he's a lot like Sandy but less happy."

[temporal_affairs]

"Aww."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Which kind of makes him the opposite of Chainsaw," says Eights. "Thankfully. I think one Chainsaw is enough."

[temporal_affairs]

"I could not agree more."

[lookingforwardtoit]

Eights smiles fondly at him.

[thaumobabble]

Glass appears. "Green," she says to Nathan, "and, purples."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"...Eh?" says Anna.

[thaumobabble]

"Sorry - I've discovered that templates fall into one of two categories, which we're calling 'moieties', one green, one purple. You guys are purple. Nathan is green. Jokers are purple, Bells are green, I haven't sorted everybody yet though."