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]

"That seems like a weird thing for templates to cluster around!"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Does it?" says Eights.

[temporal_affairs]

"Well, I don't have any better ideas, but yes, it does."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"I think I'll tell Glass," says Eights.

[I'm not sure if you've noticed, but it seems like purple people like pain more than green ones.]

[thaumobabble]

[That does seem to be a trend. It's not a perfect trend, though. Matildas are purple and as far as I know that's not a trait they have.]

[lookingforwardtoit]

[I wouldn't know; I haven't met one.]

[thaumobabble]

[I'm going to finish sorting people, but after that there'll be a list generally available and we'll see what we can see.]

[lookingforwardtoit]

[All right,] she says agreeably.

[temporal_affairs]

"What's the verdict?" inquires Nathan.

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Definitely a thing, maybe not a thing one hundred percent of the time, she still hasn't sorted everybody," says Eights.

"I still don't see what's so weird about clustering around that," says Anna.

"Me neither."

[temporal_affairs]

"Well, what would the greens be clustering around, non-masochism?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"There's not necessarily an opposite to every possible thing that some people can have in common," says Eights.

[temporal_affairs]

"Well, it's just that there's only two kinds. If there were an entire rainbow it would make more sense, but a bifurcate division..."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"I don't think it's the only difference, but it definitely seems to be a difference," she says. "Anyway, do we know for sure that every single person in every single universe is one of those two things? We only know it about people Glass has looked at so far, and that's not a lot, in comparison."

[temporal_affairs]

"Well, no, I suppose she's only checking the party attendees, but we weren't sorted for green-or-purple-moiety-membership ahead of time. She discovered this phenomenon today."

[lookingforwardtoit]

Eights shrugs.

[temporal_affairs]

"It's a mystery, apparently."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Yep."