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]

"Sure," he says, "but we still have to pick one to do first, I'm not that magic."

[alicornucopia]

Minnie giggles. "Things first!"

[pythbox]

"All right," Celo says cheerfully. "Well, broadly speaking: you could watch me do things, or I could watch you do things, or we could talk about doing things, or one of us could tell the other what things to do, or any combination of those. Where the specific nature of 'things' depends on what we think is fun." He grins. "I have some suggestions if you want."

[alicornucopia]

"I can't really do things. My shape sort of - pretends to exist. Actually trying to make it not go through itself falls apart for anything more complicated than clapping my hands," sighs Minnie.

[pythbox]

"Awwww," says Celo. "Well, that still leaves some options open. Or we could figure out the solidity thing now, and then we'd have lots of options."

[alicornucopia]

"Okay, let's do that!"

[pythbox]

He grins.

"Okay, lemme think. Do you wanna fix the thing about not being able to do things while you're all see-through, too?"

[alicornucopia]

"Yes," grins Minnie.

[pythbox]

Celo beams at her.

"How about: you're always solid to yourself, and you can turn solid to everything else when you want, but if there's something in the way it just doesn't work? And then you're solid until you decide not to be. But without all that inconvenient stuff about needing to breathe and eat and pee. Just like you are now but with more touching going on."

[alicornucopia]

"That sounds good to me!"

[pythbox]

He pulls a honey-coloured hex out of thin air and wishes on it.

"Try being solid," he suggests.

[alicornucopia]

Minnie scrunches up her face. Then she falls an inch to the floor and stumbles and doesn't actually fall over but has a difficult time catching herself.

[pythbox]

"You okay?" says Celo, holding out his arms invitingly.

[alicornucopia]

Minnie sort of falls into his arms and squirms snuggly-like there. "Uh-huh!" she beams.

[pythbox]

"Awesome," says Celo, and he kisses her forehead and sits on the edge of the room's nice comfy bed and settles her in his lap.

So about those options that they now have...

[alicornucopia]

Minnie died a virgin on prom night and has spent the last century or so a very frustrated ghost.

She wants all of the options. All of them.

[pythbox]

She can have as many as she wants, for as long as she wants, in as many variations as she wants.

Celo loves being a nymph, he really does.