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]

"I don't really want to be the one to explain other worlds to them, and Aether's not gonna jump at the chance to hang out with a bunch of nymphs," he says. "Herbaceous health food theme, yeah, probably. But I still might be different because I'm the only male nymph."

[alicornucopia]

"Oh, hm, with humans I know gender doesn't make a huge difference, it's easier to taste if two people are related than if they're the same sex," muses Lily, "no idea about nymphs."

[pythbox]

"If it was half and half I wouldn't expect it to make a big difference," he says, "but I'm such a one-off, there's no telling what else might be different, you know?"

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah, that's a reasonable point. I'm almost tempted to visit, but Materia's flagged as no tourism."

[pythbox]

"Seriously no tourism," Celo agrees. "It's dangerous in all kinds of nasty ways. If you want girl nymph blood that badly—"

He spends a pentagon. His magical censoring shifts configuration. He offers her his hand.

[alicornucopia]

Lily laughs, bites his wrist again, and has a taste. "Yeah, it's a little different, not very."

[pythbox]

Another little flare of warm light heals the second bite. "And now you know," he says cheerfully.

[alicornucopia]

"Yep. Thanks for letting me nibble," Lily says cheerfully.

[pythbox]

Celo laughs. "No problem. Lemme know if you come up with any interesting uses for that stuff," with a general wave at the jug of blood and bottle of honey.

[alicornucopia]

"Will do. I'll get people to fill out comment cards," she suggests.

[pythbox]

He giggles. "Wonderful. And now," with a grin, "I'm gonna go see who else wants a bite."

[Hey, where's your sweetie?] he asks the Joker.

[manofmyword]

[Right here,] he says brightly, snuggling into Nathan's arms. Being carried by his sweetie is one of his very favourite things.

[alicornucopia]

"Have fun," laughs Lily, picking up her bottles and wandering off.

[manofmyword]

"Celo's gonna come visit," the Joker says to Nathan.

[temporal_affairs]

"Okay," says Nathan agreeably, kissing the Joker on the forehead.

[pythbox]

Celo appears, nudity and nametag and all. He has forgotten to change back to his usual shape.

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan's perfectly accustomed to shapeshifting Jokers and not fazed by casual nudity. "Hullo there, good to meet you."

[pythbox]

"Hi! So I hear you might bite me?"

[temporal_affairs]

"Stranger things have happened."

[pythbox]

"I think that would be fun!" he says. "And apparently I'm tasty - Lily had a nibble."

[temporal_affairs]

"Oh, and she's a picky eater," laughs Nathan. "All right. But I'm a regular vampire, not a hybrid, and shouldn't be drinking from the vein in public."

[pythbox]

"We could stop being in public," Celo suggests. "Or I could conjure you some. Which would you rather?"

[temporal_affairs]

"Oh, privacy's already tremendous fun, and then if you're in a mood after you can pounce on babe here."

[pythbox]

Celo beams. "Sounds good to me!" he says, and teleports all three of them to an empty room downstairs.

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan puts his mate down, and takes a bite out of Celo. He does not go for the delicate wrist-nibbling so much.