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.

Author: 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.
Author: alicornucopia	Minnie's entertainment (they had a sign on the door; she omitted to ask first about permission to supervise) having dispersed, she is now floating visibly - but, as usual, insubstantially - about the party.
Author: pythbox	One of Minnie's entertainers is browsing the buffet! He is still naked. An illusory black rectangle obscures certain parts, but it goes away very obligingly at the observer's whim. (His nametag - which he wasn't wearing last time she saw him - is rather longer than the usual ones. Apparently he's a Joker from Materia whose name is... something... but you can call him Celo. And yes he is naked. And yes it's on purpose.)
Author: alicornucopia	Minnie experiences whim! And she grins, and in spite of the nametag feels compelled to gleefully remark on the fact that: "You're naked!"
Author: pythbox	Ooh. "Yes I am," says Celo, grinning right back. "Hi!"
Author: alicornucopia	"Hi! I saw you naked before, too - there was a sign on the door! It was very considerate! - but you didn't have your nametag on like that then."
Author: pythbox	"I didn't, yeah," he says with a laugh. "It would've just gotten in the way."
Author: alicornucopia	Minnie nods. "I noticed!"
Author: pythbox	"Wanna go get a room where you can look at me naked some more?" he inquires, grinning.
Author: alicornucopia	"...You are already completely naked right here. What would the room do?"
Author: pythbox	"I could do things it wouldn't be polite to do out here," he says. "You could help."
Author: alicornucopia	"I can't really help," she says, waving a hand through his shoulder. It's slightly chilly. "I can only be solid when I'm really mad."
Author: pythbox	"Well, one, there's plenty of things we could do that don't need physical contact," he says, "and two, do you like being that way? Because I bet we could change it."
Author: alicornucopia	"Do I like it? No, it's kind of inconvenient. I like being able to go through stuff and pop in and out, though. What are the things? I want to know what the things are."
Author: pythbox	"Come get a room with me and I will tell you all about the things," laughs Celo. "I'm trying to be a good nymph here and not shock any eavesdroppers."
Author: alicornucopia	"Okay," says Minnie, and she drifts after him, presuming he is so kind as to lead her roomward.
Author: pythbox	He is, in fact! "I could make it so you can be solid when you want to be," he offers on the way.
Author: alicornucopia	"I'd probably lose track of something and wind up solid and also halfway through a wall."
Author: pythbox	He grins. "There's ways around that."
Author: alicornucopia	"Like what?" asks Minnie.
Author: pythbox	"I could just make it that trying to go solid while you're halfway through a wall doesn't work and doesn't hurt," he shrugs. "I don't think it'd be that hard. I have safe wishes to play with."
Author: alicornucopia	"Oooh," says Minnie. "I didn't think of anything that complicated or I might've asked Juliet."
Author: pythbox	"Yeah, it's hard to really get what safe wishes can do," says Celo. "Look, a room!" Into the room he goes.
Author: alicornucopia	Minnie goes in too. Through the wall.
Author: pythbox	"Sooooo," he says, "I could tell you all about things, or I could figure out a nice safe way to make you get solid on and off whenever you want... what're you feeling, here?"
Author: alicornucopia	"Is both an answer?"
Author: pythbox	"Sure," he says, "but we still have to pick one to do first, I'm not that magic."
Author: alicornucopia	Minnie giggles. "Things first!"
Author: 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."
Author: 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.
Author: 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."
Author: alicornucopia	"Okay, let's do that!"
Author: 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?"
Author: alicornucopia	"Yes," grins Minnie.
Author: 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."
Author: alicornucopia	"That sounds good to me!"
Author: pythbox	He pulls a honey-coloured hex out of thin air and wishes on it. "Try being solid," he suggests.
Author: 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.
Author: pythbox	"You okay?" says Celo, holding out his arms invitingly.
Author: alicornucopia	Minnie sort of falls into his arms and squirms snuggly-like there. "Uh-huh!" she beams.
Author: 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...
Author: 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.
Author: 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.