Blade (no not that one, another Blade) crashed the party. He confronted Lena and demanded to know where X was, Lena said she didn’t know and hadn’t seen him in over three years. Blade said that Lena had been seen with him and he would have the knowledge out of her one way or the other. Lena handed Carissa off to Warder, who was standing nearby, and prepared to defend herself if necessary. Anderson moved to stand with her and things were ready to explode when Forester popped up and admitted to being the man Blade was seeking. Lena started to move in to help Forester to defend himself, but Anderson grabbed her arm, said something to her and dragged her downstairs where she wouldn’t be in danger.
Most of the NPC guests came downstairs as well leaving Forester, Warder, Talis, Rod, Speedy, and Rose to help Forester (and Cardigan, who decided to watch from the front row) as a helicopter came in and Blade attacked. Several people got off the helicopter before Lena got to the security control room, jacked in, and blew the helicopter away with anti-aircraft guns concealed in the bushes. Speedy killed Blade and took his sword. Forester took the chief bad guy mage on in single combat and pulled some really funky magic, cutting the rival mage off from the astral - permanently. Warder, Rod, and Talis took out another couple of bad guys - some regular troops and a mage, and Rose had fun playing "you light up my life" with the remainder.
Forester spent the night at Lena’s recovering. Rose got a bit of a crush on Forester, but he wouldn’t let her go with him. And since then, no one has yet allowed Lena to throw another party.