Also Perfect Sour Candy Day.

As always, I slept in too much and went shopping, but did not go to anime because Dave is sick.

Watched (live-action TV): The Librarians 2.2: The new villain invades the Library in search of a magical upgrade, but Flynn is still master of the Library. Also Baird made some kind of deal with the minion, because there is exploitable tension there, but we’re not sure exactly what it was.

Read (short): The Price of Meat (KJ Charles): In the middle of alt-C19 London, there is a region where the law does not apply, and the worst of the worst take refuge to plot their criminal plots. Our Heroine has to infiltrate it to repay the coppers for saving her girlfriend from an oubliette for the insane, and it is about as bad as you expect from the title.

Read (graphic novel): The New Girl vol 2 (Cassandra Calin): Now that she has a friend group and is getting better at French, our main character can experience more advanced forms of middle-school suffering, like mean girls and romantic ambiguity and medical misogyny. But she does make it to the end of the school year mostly intact and still cute!

Read (manga): Mii-chan Wants to be Kept vol 1 (Waka Takase): Hapless male MC rescues a cat, who turns out to be a specific kind of werecat and won’t go away even though her being gorgeous and immodest is very upsetting. Unnecessarily heterosexual on multiple levels.

Read (manga): Common-Sense Monster vol 1 (Warugi Wanai, Shinobu Shinotsuki): A social maladjusted highschool girl discovers that her popular classmate is actually an anthropophagous horror in a girl suit and asks her to teach her how to fake being a functional member of society. This doesn’t go quite as badly as it could, since the human girl is cunning and the monster is pretty risk-averse.

Read (game): Picaro! (Wythe Marschall): Allegedly from an unsigned manuscript found tucked into a used RPG book from the 70s, rewritten to the finder’s preferred system because game design in the 70s was… not advanced. I have read too many books from the 70s and earlier that started “dunno how this manuscript made it from Mars to my PO box, but here you go” to believe that, but I guess it’s not actually impossible. Anyway, you play cunning rogues sticking it to the Man on behalf of the people. There is one stat that is both how much the people like you, rolled by the players to get help/equipment for their heists, and how much the authorities hate you, rolled by the GM to add more opposition to their heists. Also, many feats/supernatural powers/spells, that all use a single pool of points that decreases throughout the adventure. I am not sure what I think of games that use that mechanic.

Written (Geometry for Mutants): 142. Is this scene really accomplishing any goals, though?