Played (Changeling the Lost): Berkeley 94. The motley (minus Everett, who has work) go to a revel at the court of King Mark, where there is food and frisbee golf and new Changelings and known Changelings and more food which is explicitly pork not anything humanoid and intrigue and additional food. There is not a fight over Siddy’s honor, although it’s close until the multiple meanings and inflections of the word “brownies” can be disentangled. No one new is kidnapped or sacrificed, although a Changeling named RELOADING! is missing and his friends are Concerned, so Berkeley may not be entirely kidnapping-free.
Read (novel): Middlegame (Seanan McGuire): Alchemists try to embody the fundamental forces of the universe in human form, without telling them, and letting them make their way in the world. This goes pretty poorly for everyone involved. I am always glad to see alchemy that isn’t just vaguely fantastic chemistry. (Yet another thing D&D has to answer for.) If you aren’t at least making life out of lifenessness, how can you even call yourself an alchemist?
Read (from the shelf): FAIL.
Written (Geometry for Mutants): 104.