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Isabella Marie Swan ✴ "Stella" ([personal profile] self_composed) wrote2013-03-19 03:47 pm

it's a dead man's party

The guest list winds up being pretty huge.

To start with, there are now eight Bells. Pattern isn't bringing anyone besides herself, and Aegis no one besides herself and her Whistle, but everyone else -

Between Alice, the Joker, the rescued Queenie, Kas, Micaiah, and Sue, plus Ghosty who Amariah picked up on her way home, that's seven Whistles. (Stella thinks ahead: there is a soundproofed orgy chamber away from the main party awning. With a few nodes off of it in case more than one orgy forms; she can think of at least two other likely ones.)

There's an equally absurd number of Sherlocks and Tonies if you count them together. They have Juliet's matched set, Shell Bell's matched set, two other matched sets from Bell-less worlds (one with souled vampire, one both human), a stray Tony, and a stray Sherlock from Downside.

Amariah grabbed a random Libby on top of the random extra Whistle, but at least she's not incorporating anyone from home.

Golden's bringing much of her family and many of her friends - although Edward is staying home, that still leaves Elspeth and Jacob, Alice and Jasper with little Brandon, Rosalie and Emmett and little Henry, Nathan accompanying his mate and their child Kerron, Esme and Carlisle and their Lily, Addy, and Elena who'll get to see her brother. Golden claims that this is a conservative list and she could easily have produced another twenty enthusiastic guests. Stella doesn't doubt it. She puts up a few signs reading Please Conduct Adult Conversation Only Via Brainphone. Little Half-Vampires Have Good Ears And Perfect Memories. As a last-minute surprise, Golden has taken Elspeth's suggestion to bring Edward's deceased mother Elizabeth, too.

Juliet has, on top of her boyfriend and his - progenitor? - her tiny Libby, James, a tagalong thereto called Virginia, and a ghost called Minnie, plus Giles.

Angela's list is more modest: her, her husband, and their friends Alleluia and Caleb.

Shell Bell is responsible for half the Sherlocks-and-Tonies all by herself, a tagalong called Pepper, and also someone called Darcy and also Matilda. (Shell Bell is also the reason Angela is not inviting her brother-in-law.)

Stella herself is responsible for inviting Libby, Orfeo, Chris, Mary, Anna, Sandy, Eights, Chainsaw, Lazarus, Kolya (who is informed that it would be awfully inconvenient for a majority of Bells to all have to coordinate on pretending he doesn't exist when only one of them has even met him to be able to identify him in the first place, so he can simply stay home if he's planning to be hidey), and Bridget.

Stella sets up a name tag system. Everyone will have a tag stuck to them. Solo persons - a minority - will just have their names. People with template names and nicknames will have both stamped on automatically. ("Hi! I'm a Bell, and you can call me Stella!"; "Hi! I'm a Whistle, and you can call me Alice!" "Hi! I'm a Sherlock, and I don't have a distinguishing nickname yet but as soon as I pick one it will appear here!")

She conjures up a nice buffet of food and beverages which will stay its correct temperature until consumed, and assorted synthetics for the vampires (labeled not for human consumption), and dishes and flatware (all glass; even some of the food-eating guests might dissolve anything else) and fusses with the awning opacity until it lets in just the right amount of sun, and, what the hell, she throws in a stage in case Angela wants to sing or she decides to play the flute or someone decides to pentagon some other performative skill to entertain the crowd. She makes sure there are enough bathrooms for all the people who still need bathrooms.

She puts out a few tables here and there with little bowls of squares and triangles - a mix of her glowing red and Alice's shifty black - in them for everyone's convenience. She accumulates coins in those sizes faster than she generally uses them and has a great many, so there are plenty for anyone to dip and wish if something comes up. She double-checks to make sure the Martian ground rules prohibit any misuses available for those size coins.

Jane gets one of those high-tech holographic projectors, on wheels, which she promptly manifests in, drives around the floor, and makes faces through.
manofmyword: Quasi-innocent? (⑽ i wanna drive)

[personal profile] manofmyword 2013-03-26 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
"And Quin," murmurs the Joker.
bellfounding: (Default)

[personal profile] bellfounding 2013-03-26 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay... do you suppose that's likely to attract notice from the Batlady, if you do?"
gunpowdergelatine: Half in shadow, looking up; sincerity, vulnerability. (♣7/got me on my knees)

[personal profile] gunpowdergelatine 2013-03-26 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"If I do what, go see Quinnie?" She shrugs. "Maybe, who knows?"
bellfounding: (apprehensive)

[personal profile] bellfounding 2013-03-26 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"So possibly I should warn her, and see how she reacts."
luminous_regnant: (l ~ forward)

[personal profile] luminous_regnant 2013-03-26 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"You might want me or Stella with you if you schedule such a meeting," Golden says.
manofmyword: Gesturing, explaining. (⑾ never start with the head)

[personal profile] manofmyword 2013-03-26 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
The Joker snorts. "What the hell would you do that for, anyway?"
bellfounding: (m ~ fretting)

[personal profile] bellfounding 2013-03-26 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Would unpleasantly startling her be a better idea for some reason?"
luminous_regnant: (f ~ attention)

[personal profile] luminous_regnant 2013-03-26 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"She is just a human. A single person visiting a large city won't necessarily attract her attention at all. Although given the way Bells and our friends seem to attract coincidences, I'm not sure if counting on that would be wise."
manofmyword: Quasi-innocent? (⑽ i wanna drive)

[personal profile] manofmyword 2013-03-26 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you tell her one of me's gonna be visiting Gotham, she'll throw a great big messy shitfit, I bet. Even if you tell her it's not me. Even if she believes you it's not me. If Q just goes, there's a good chance Batsy might never find out."
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[personal profile] bellfounding 2013-03-26 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay... maybe Queenie could go in disguise just in case?"
gunpowdergelatine: Maybe thoughtful, maybe confused, maybe dismissive. (♥b/burn your empty rain)

[personal profile] gunpowdergelatine 2013-03-26 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hon," says Queenie, tapping her unscarred, unpainted face, "this is a disguise."
luminous_regnant: (h ~ ambivalent)

[personal profile] luminous_regnant 2013-03-26 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Your standard power stack included a vision boost. Just because you can tell what her bones look like under there doesn't mean the Bat can," Golden says.
bellfounding: (l ~ quizzical)

[personal profile] bellfounding 2013-03-26 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Fair enough," shrugs Pattern.
manofmyword: Sitting calmly on the floor, leaning against a wall. (⑺ gonna enjoy this)

[personal profile] manofmyword 2013-03-26 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mm... separate issue from Q's job offer," says the Joker, "I do miss Dr. Quinzel. She's a friend of mine from Gotham. Think you could find her, see how she's doing, ask if she wants to come have a chat?"
bellfounding: (i ~ inhale)

[personal profile] bellfounding 2013-03-26 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"In person, or would it work fine for you if Jane did it?"
mind_game: (web)

[personal profile] mind_game 2013-03-26 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[I'd be her ride anyway,] Jane points out.
manofmyword: Conspiratorial or condescending. (⒁ they'rrre cheap)

[personal profile] manofmyword 2013-03-26 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Doesn't matter to me," he says with a shrug.
mind_game: (dreamcatcher)

[personal profile] mind_game 2013-03-26 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[I'll email her once I have a foothold in Origin,] says Jane evenly.
mind_game: (fractal)

[personal profile] mind_game 2013-03-26 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Or, you could compose an email to her yourself and I could pass it along,] Jane points out.
manofmyword: Quasi-innocent? (⑽ i wanna drive)

[personal profile] manofmyword 2013-03-26 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Aw, I wouldn't know what to say."
mind_game: (jewel)

[personal profile] mind_game 2013-03-26 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Suit yourself.]
bellfounding: (i ~ inhale)

[personal profile] bellfounding 2013-03-26 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"So that's that taken care of. Is there anything else we should work out?"
luminous_regnant: (f ~ attention)

[personal profile] luminous_regnant 2013-03-26 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Queenie, at the risk of my regretting asking this question, how are you planning to produce large coins wandering around by yourself?"
gunpowdergelatine: Grinning. (♠3/I'm all love)

[personal profile] gunpowdergelatine 2013-03-26 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
She giggles.

"I dunno, I'll think of something. Why, you wanna help?"

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