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

[keyed_up]

"What?"

[tearingup]

"Wreck 'em, of course," he says promptly. "Either with everybody inside, or in a huge pillow fight, or both."

[keyed_up]

Soph hmmmmms. Then she seizes a long foundational pillow and thwacks both of the boys at the same time.

[tearingup]

Cackling, Ripper pulls a pillow out of the wall on his side and hits back.

[keyed_up]

Wheeeeeeee pillow fight!

Soph is nearly as unfairly good at pillow fights as Tony is at driving-oriented video games. They might have to gang up on her.

[toblameforit]

So they do.

The walls of the fort are definitely beginning to sag after all three participants have pulled out their first weapons, but it's one of Tony's wild swings that thwacks against the ceiling and pulls one corner completely out of its supporting pillow structure. That end of the blanket settles gently down onto the combatants.

[keyed_up]

Soph immediately attempts to trap Tony in it.

[toblameforit]

He manages to escape to the fort's opposite corner, where the blanket is still anchored.

[tearingup]

Ripper covers his retreat.

[keyed_up]

Soph is relentless! Bow to her pillow-wielding might!

[tearingup]

She is pretty mighty, it's true!

Either because of something someone did or just because of the general ruckus, the side walls of the fort collapse soon afterward, dropping the whole ceiling on all three of them. Ripper starts giggling uncontrollably.

[keyed_up]

Soph pops up like a daisy and picks up the pillows that were holding the ceiling in place as long-range weapons.

[toblameforit]

Tony wriggles out from under the collapsed ceiling to discover that the archway is the only part of the structure still standing. He whoops. "Engineering in action!"

[keyed_up]

His distraction earns him a downy thwack.

[toblameforit]

"Pffffff," says Tony. He starts pelting Soph with pieces of the collapsed walls.

[keyed_up]

She bats several of them away midair and is undaunted by the ones that land.

[tearingup]

How about when Ripper joins in on the bombardment?

[keyed_up]

Well at some point she's just going to be in a pile of them, isn't she?

And then she has plenty to throw back!

[tearingup]

Damn.

Well... well...



Ripper eyes the beanbags on the floor.

[keyed_up]

Soph is faster!

They're bulky, but not too much for her to fling one straight at Ripper's midsection, quite possibly knocking him over.

[tearingup]

Knocking him over and onto a pair of beanbags, and completely covering his head and torso, so that he briefly looks like some kind of beanbag monster with human legs.

He sits up, beanbag in his arms, and heaves it back at her.

[keyed_up]

She rolls out of the way and launches another one!

[toblameforit]

Tony tackles it out of the air. This is a disadvantage of large slow-moving projectiles. Then he flings a pillow at her head.

[keyed_up]

This one hits her. She laughs and flings it back.

[toblameforit]

Tony catches and returns it!