Fic recs ... ?

This is sparked by a comment I made on sophia_helix's recent slash poll, which I'll just repeat here:

What I really prefer for the most part is fic that is not primarily about romantic/sexual relationships between people, which seems to be a radical idea. *My* attitude is: if I wanted to read a romance novel, I'd be reading a damn romance novel. What I want is adventure, or suspense, or intrigue, or mystery, or humor, or ... etc., etc., etc. What 99% of the fic out there does is focus on the relationships between characters or on the bits of the characters that are formed by relationships or lack of them, and pushes the plot of the piece into the background, using it as an excuse to get the characters to examine or actively avoid examining their relationships.

*mournful cry into the wind* Whatever happened to plot?!

So ... your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to: rec me fic that isn't about relationships. I want plot! Give me action! Mystery! Humor! If there's some romance in it, fine, but I don't want it to be about the romance! Slash, femslash, het, gen, I don't care!

And lots of navel-gazing introspection is right out. I am not a fan of navel-gazing introspection, honestly. I want to have to tease it out, like in the manga Saiyuki, not have their thought processes laid out bare for me.

What, you want fandoms? I'll edit this post in a couple of minutes and list fandoms I could possibly scrape up enough knowledge about to read, but I've got to run up to the Ref desk at the moment.
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rituals...

Just weathered the annual Setting Off the Smoke Alarm By Turning On The Heater. Was prepared this year and dragged my big fan in and the moment it started screeching from the smoke of burning dust, I blasted it with air to blow away the stuff it was triggered by. Worked, too: it only went off three times before shutting up, and I left the fan for a few minutes.

Now to wait until next year.