small_magics: (welcome)
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.
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
Celo is back at the buffet table, trying one of every dessert. He's also still female, partly because he hasn't had any good reasons to change back and partly on the theory that maybe this way fewer people will question him about his lack of pants.
keyed_up: (made real)
Author: keyed_up
No such luck.

"You are wearing zero clothes, did you know that?"
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Nooooo," says the nymph, rolling his eyes. "I had no idea."
keyed_up: (oh don't say that)
Author: keyed_up
"Hey, could've been someone pranked you, how would I know?"
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Okay, yeah, sure," he says, "it's just you are not exactly the first person who's noticed and I get less happy about explaining every time."
keyed_up: (powers that be)
Author: keyed_up
"Put it on your nametag?" she suggests.
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Technically if somebody could prank me they could prank my nametag too," he points out. "I mean, not easily, I enchanted it myself, but they could."
keyed_up: (in situ)
Author: keyed_up
"It could say to... check with... some third party? I don't know, that gets kind of involved."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Mm. Well, it still might cut down on it a little." He concentrates briefly; his illusory nametag extends itself to add the line Yes, I know I'm naked at the bottom.
keyed_up: (powers that be)
Author: keyed_up
"Would I also be the millionth person to ask why you're naked? Did you lose a bet?"
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
He snorts. "No. I am naked on purpose. Because I'm a nymph, and nymphs do that."
keyed_up: (in situ)
Author: keyed_up
"Huh. I guess that's not really weirder than Bella having demonic minions who need her to bless grape soda so they can have babies."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"...I'd actually say being naked because I'm a nymph is less weird than that," says Celo. "And I'm pretty sure your demons are not like my demons."
keyed_up: (Default)
Author: keyed_up
"Well, Sunshine has lots of kinds of demons," says Soph. "And then there's Aianon who is the kind from this world. What are yours like?"
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Usually up to no good," he snorts. "Vulnerable to divine energy. They can possess people or take physical shape on the mortal plane, and they need to feed on really specific things - I remember hearing about one who had to eat the hearts of virgins, which sounds pretty messy."
keyed_up: (made real)
Author: keyed_up
"I would not be surprised to find a kind like that in a Sunshine demonology book, but that's not the only sort."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Because lots of kinds," he says. "Yeah. You know, I kind of wish we'd find another world with nymphs in it."
keyed_up: (Default)
Author: keyed_up
"They probably wouldn't be much like you. Humans seem to be about the same everywhere, but nothing else."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"I mean I'd like it if we found another world with specifically my kind of nymphs," he says, "mostly so there would be at least some people at these things whose first words to me would not be any variation on the theme of 'Hi! You're naked!'."
keyed_up: (made real)
Author: keyed_up
"Don't hold your breath. I mean, there's a unicorn and some dragons who don't wear clothes? Maybe they wouldn't mention it?"
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
He snorts. "Yeah, but they could still tell I'm the only naked humanoid walking around up here."
keyed_up: (powers that be)
Author: keyed_up
"They might not think it's worth mentioning? I don't know, I haven't tried going up to the unicorn while naked."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
Celo grins. "If you do, lemme know how it goes!"
keyed_up: (sic my sister on you)
Author: keyed_up
"Not part of my plans for the day."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Didn't think so," he giggles.
keyed_up: (powers that be)
Author: keyed_up
"So you're from the world that broke Jane, right? With the therapist-Bell?"
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Yep, that's me."
keyed_up: (in situ)
Author: keyed_up
"I have a really, really hard time imagining Bella as a therapist, but maybe that's just my one."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: 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: (little sis)
Author: keyed_up
"My Bella kind of spent a while having problems that were best solved by blunt force trauma."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Ooh, blunt force trauma to who?"
keyed_up: (powers that be)
Author: keyed_up
"Miscellaneous demons!"
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
Celo giggles. "Sounds like fun."
keyed_up: (inching sideways)
Author: keyed_up
"Sometimes. One time a magical construct thing stomped on her and she was in the hospital for a while."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: 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: (remember being loved)
Author: 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: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Yeah," he says, "readily available resurrection is pretty great, isn't it?"
keyed_up: (powers that be)
Author: keyed_up
"Yeah!"
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: 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: (made real)
Author: 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: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Nope," he says. "I'm Celo out loud."
keyed_up: (Default)
Author: keyed_up
"Maybe your nametag should say that, too."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"My nametag is going to be like a page long," he snorts.
keyed_up: (flesh and blood)
Author: keyed_up
"Why, what else are you skipping that should be on it?"
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: 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: (little sis)
Author: 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: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Covering up any part of me is technically blasphemy," he snorts. "Not that I care."
keyed_up: (in situ)
Author: 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: A book. (Default)
Author: 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."
keyed_up: (flesh and blood)
Author: keyed_up
"Well, I'm not supposed to visit Materia anyway, I guess."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Yeah, you definitely should not do that," snorts Celo. "Nobody from out here in your nice safe fantasy paradise should visit Materia."
keyed_up: (oh don't say that)
Author: keyed_up
"I'm not from a nice safe fantasy paradise, I'm from a mean world with lots of things in it that would like to eat me."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
Celo shrugs. "'Nice safe fantasy paradise' was more about the part where the laws of reality stay put when you squint at them and there are basically no ways to permanently die anymore. The entire rest of the multiverse is a nice safe fantasy paradise as far as I'm concerned, until we find another world that works like Materia."
keyed_up: (made real)
Author: keyed_up
"Syntropy's not hooked up Downside," Soph points out. "You might be able to permanently die there. They also haven't figured out how the gods work, there."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
He snorts. "So maybe people shouldn't be visiting Syntropy either."
keyed_up: (in situ)
Author: keyed_up
"People don't. I don't think so, anyway, I - have not been visiting places before."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Me neither," laughs Celo. "Well, not until I learned how to freecast; I've pretty much spent all my time since then bouncing between Jokers."
keyed_up: (Default)
Author: keyed_up
"But not to the Syntropy one?"
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"Huh? Yeah, why not?"
keyed_up: (but i remember it)
Author: keyed_up
"You just said, maybe people shouldn't be visiting Syntropy either."
pythbox: A book. (Default)
Author: pythbox
"...Yeah, but one, I didn't mean me, and two, I said that after I went there."
keyed_up: (Default)
Author: keyed_up
"Okay."