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

[she_sells_seashells]

"So I hear you two have dragon alts," Shell Bell remarks to her companions.

[sicaria]

Sherlock looks around. No dragons are in evidence in the main room, although it is large enough to contain several, with dragon-sized archways leading out onto what seems to be a dragon-sized platform encircling the... plant.

"Perhaps we will find them outside," she suggests.

[she_sells_seashells]

"Let's, I wanna see what a dragon you looks like."

[sicaria]

Out they go.

[pythbox]

The plant is surrounded by sufficient air for the dragons to fly, which they are doing.

One of them - her scales are bright gold with patches of red - comes in for a landing nearby as soon as the three humans emerge.

"Hi!" she says. "Who're you?"

[she_sells_seashells]

"I'm Shell Bell, and this is my Sherlock, Pearl, and that is my Tony, Screwdriver."

[pythbox]

"I'm Tianthonet," says the dragon. "A Tony, apparently."

She sits back, folding her hind legs and curling her tail around her forefeet, and peers down at the three of them.

[ferratus]

"Hi," says Screwdriver.

[sicaria]

Pearl looks around. She is sure that her dragon alt will be here any moment.

[pythbox]

And there she is, flying in remarkably silently and perching on the edge of the wide platform next to Tianthonet.

"Hello. I'm Sherial."

[ferratus]

"Well," says Screwdriver, "at least we don't have to come up with nicknames for you guys. We kinda scraped the bottom of the barrel already."

[pythbox]

"Yes, what is a screwdriver?" says Tianthonet.

[she_sells_seashells]

"It's a small tool used to twist screws around so they'll stay put and attach things to other things," says Shell Bell. "It's not a very good nickname, but none of them for either of your templates are very good."

[exactlyright]

Carinna is being very brave. She is not clinging to any of her moms or her sisters. She is mingling.

"So um," she says tentatively to a red-haired woman, "...are you a fire-witch?"

[ferratus]

"Yeah," says Screwdriver, "we suck that way. Most of us had to name ourselves after our coin colours, and most of our coin colours are weird or boring or both. I mean, I have an alt named 'Sapphire' after a colour of paint."

[pythbox]

"...Is it significant paint, in some way?" wonders Sherial.

[ferratus]

"Well, he owns something that is painted that colour. I'm not sure it's significant."

[most_capable]

"...Potentially," says the woman. "What's a fire-witch?"

[she_sells_seashells]

"Red's are red, Iron's look like hot iron, etcetera. Iron Man already came with a nickname. So did Strat, he's a Sherlock."

[exactlyright]

"Oh, on Chronicle they're... a kind of witch, but not like regular witches. They do fire and some other things. I'm a little bit a fire witch, just enough to hold hot stuff. Tony and Sherlock are more and Grandma Marianne is more than that. I have some friends who are all fire-witch though. They aren't here."

[most_capable]

"Then no, I don't think I'm a fire-witch," she says, smiling.

[exactlyright]

"They have red hair," says Carinna. "Most people on Chronicle with red hair are fire-witches."

[sicaria]

"I believe Strat skipped this one," says Pearl. "He does that. But you are likely to meet Minus and Steel and reasonably likely to meet Plus and Cloud."

[ferratus]

"The Tonies usually all show up," says Screwdriver. "For... reasons."

[she_sells_seashells]

Shell Bell giggles.