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]

"Didn't think so," he giggles.

[keyed_up]

"So you're from the world that broke Jane, right? With the therapist-Bell?"

[pythbox]

"Yep, that's me."

[keyed_up]

"I have a really, really hard time imagining Bella as a therapist, but maybe that's just my one."

[pythbox]

"Aether isn't actually trained yet," he says. "She's going to school to learn to be a mental healer, 'cause that's where she felt like she could do the most good with the smallest splash. But I don't think she's bad at it or anything."

[keyed_up]

"My Bella kind of spent a while having problems that were best solved by blunt force trauma."

[pythbox]

"Ooh, blunt force trauma to who?"

[keyed_up]

"Miscellaneous demons!"

[pythbox]

Celo giggles. "Sounds like fun."

[keyed_up]

"Sometimes. One time a magical construct thing stomped on her and she was in the hospital for a while."

[pythbox]

"Aww, that's sad. Well, okay, it sounds like a fun time to me, but I recognize that not everybody likes getting stomped."

[keyed_up]

"She almost died. She would've done if Amariah hadn't put protective spells on her. Usually when Slayers get hurt they pretty much pop right back up or they're dead. I mean, then she actually did die, but I didn't find out about that until she was already back up walking around from Downside."

[pythbox]

"Yeah," he says, "readily available resurrection is pretty great, isn't it?"

[keyed_up]

"Yeah!"

[pythbox]

"It's available back home but not readily," he says, "kind of an 'if your family has money and it hasn't been too long and they can still find your body' thing."

[keyed_up]

"I guess that's better than nothing? Unless it isn't because people take stupid risks? Also, is there some obvious way to pronounce your name that I'm missing?"

[pythbox]

"Nope," he says. "I'm Celo out loud."

[keyed_up]

"Maybe your nametag should say that, too."

[pythbox]

"My nametag is going to be like a page long," he snorts.

[keyed_up]

"Why, what else are you skipping that should be on it?"

[pythbox]

"I can't think of anything specific, but at this rate?"

He alters his illusory nametag again, glowing briefly with the sunny divine light of his aura. Now it reads: Hi! I'm a Joker from Materia and my name is (the smear of colour that produces it when read) but you can call me Celo, and on the next line Yes, I'm naked, and on the line after that Yes, on purpose.

It is in fact getting kind of long.

[keyed_up]

"Well, at least it isn't covering up any carefully chosen accessories or anything."

(Soph is wearing even more brightly colored plastic jewelry than usual today.)

[pythbox]

"Covering up any part of me is technically blasphemy," he snorts. "Not that I care."

[keyed_up]

"Yanno, I have never had to worry about whether something was technically blasphemy? Like, I try not to offend my religious friends and stuff, but the details of theology have never come up."

[pythbox]

"In Materia the difference between not blasphemy and technically blasphemy can be permanently fatal," says Celo. "I cannot overstate how bad an idea it is to piss off a god."