Wizards' Duel

I think I'll just repeat what I said in the chat:

You have two teams of wizards. In order to make a move you must change shape into a creature or thing that beats, defeats or otherwise trumps whatever the other side has just changed into. So you might get a sequence like

Wizards: Elephant
Witches: Mouse
Wizards: Cat
Witches: Dog
Wizards: B - A - T - H
Witches: Telephone

at which point I have to admit I'm stumped so presumably the witches win that round.

• CdM
  FIFA
• Projoy (Olive Drab)
  FOFUM
• Gusset Login (Olive)
  A beanstalk
• Sierra Mike (Goldenrod)
  Agent Orange
• all (Azure)
  Mr White
• Simons Mith (Puce)
  Professor Plum
• CdM (Green)
  Lead piping in the kitchen
• Gusset Login (Olive)
  Health and Safety
• Simons Mith (Puce)
  Common sense
• Sierra Mike (Goldenrod)
  An embedded hyperlink
• Juxtapose (aqua)
  Your nephew, who despite being only eight knows more about computers than you ever will
• all (Azure)
  Napalm - It's the only language they understand.
• Simons Mith (Puce)
  Fuel-Air Explosives
• Juxtapose (aqua)
  The cold vacuum of space
• CdM (Green)
  The total perspective vortex
• Gusset Login (Olive)
  Zaphod Beeblebrox
• Simons Mith (Puce)
  Ace Rimmer. What a guy.
• Gusset Login (Olive)
  Victory for Simons Mith I feel.

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• Simons Mith (Puce)
  Thank you. I was quite pleased with that one.
  Marmite
• Juxtapose (aqua)
  Dynamite
• all (Azure)
  Jamiroquai
• Tuj (Lime)
  A ten-tonne lime
• Simons Mith (Puce)
  The invincibility of the ten-tonne lime is something that surprises me, but I haven't thought of a satisfactory counter. Time to award this one to Tuj … and put the game into storage ready for next time.

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• Audience - *shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Simons Mith*
• Simons Mith (Puce)
  … An eleven tonne lime. Dammit, l'esprit d'escalier rides again.
• Juxtapose (aqua)
  All I could think of was Lyme disease.
• Tuj (Lime)
  A million gallons of G&T? But that'd just be getting silly, eh?
• Sierra Mike (goldenrod)
  I'm a tad rusty in my French. I translate l'esprit d'escalier as "the phantom staircase". This is obviously a cunning metaphor for something to do with eleven tonne limes (or perhaps twenty-one tonnes of limes), but the meaning escapes me.
• Simons Mith (L'esprit d'escalier)
  It's an idiom for thinking of some witty retort just after the last moment.
• Giertrud (#66FFCC)
  Isn't it "the spirit of the staircase?"
• Simons Mith (Puce)
  Let's start a new one. An eleven tonne lime
• Raak
  An industrial lime-squeezer
• FGZstar (Blue)
  A hell of a lot of Mojito Mix
• Simons Mith (puce)
  Prohibition
• FGZstar (Blue)
  President Franklin Roosevelt
• Juxtapose (aqua)
  A Fourth Term
• Tuj (Lime)
  The Fourth Estate
• Giertrud (#66FFCC)
  The Saudi Monarchy
• KagomeShuko (Lime)
  The taliban.
• Giertrud (#66FFCC)
  Bacon.
• FGZstar (Blue)
  A London Cabbie
• FGZstar (Blue)

This is the end of the line. There is no more.