There has to be one of these, doesn't there?
Whisperer - IJB, that will be flux drift-through. Without wishing to help you too much, try a traverse to a parallel line. I'm dropping into
Morden with a Crossmeads Spiral.
nights -
Redbridge, with
snoods set to 'preheat'.
Botherer - Ooh, preheated
snoods. That'll be a bit painful if I inadvertantly straddle to
Perivale.
Ouch!
Tuj - Ouch! More than a little
unmitigated shunting around here... I'll shelter at
Morden for a bit.
IJB - Breaking free to
Mile End with a Henderson Expansion.
Puckoon - Getting as far away from Morden as I can with a swift move to
Verney Junction
Mr Dunton - I will defy what appears to be a developing problem with time zones and quadrant equations and escape to
Ruislip Gardens
IJB - Oh, the pull of suburbia! A Huguenot's Gamble I presume Mr. D. Go further, visit the Shires. Junkin's Progression.
Chesham beckons.
Whisperer - Hope you didn't part with too many podumes there. You stand the risk of tangential momentum follow-through which could see you unintentionally exit the game. Me, I'm urban, and some say urbane.
Bank
IJB - Knip! Knip! Knip!
Harrow-on-the-Hill.
nights - knip yourself.
Redbridge.
Robin -
"There's no place like home. There's no place like home." Look Toto, we're back in
Kensal Green.
stehvelo - New far-flung player starting at
Saunakallio with extra sanding option to counteract the wrong kind of snowflakes on the line
Tuj - stehvelo] Far-flung mentally or physically? Or both? Anyway, welcome aboard.
In response to your move, I'll
straddle maniacally to
Korppaanmaki.
stehvelo - Kiitos! Saunakallio is my local station from which I avoid tangential momentum by trundling south with my personalized quadrant equations to
Tikkurila. I've a plane to catch. Korppaanmäki has never been straddled before by anyone, let alone
maniacally, according to the 2005 MC Intergalactic Compendium. Congratulations!
Tuj - stehvelo] Probably only managed it because I couldn't do the umlaut. Anyway, I should be able to bring us back to this realm with a quick
Alperton / Amersham stabiliser.
stehvelo - Massive accrued spin and residual momentum still available even after queuing to exchange eurotokens for the local variety at
Heathrow Central.
nights -
Walthamstow Central I think. careful now.
stehvelo - Perivale station is great. A good view of the former Hoover factory, that 1930s art deco factory of the future. Currently occupied by a supermarket, apparently. Picking up 5 culture tokens and using residual momentum ("Maa-innnd tha FLAAAAN-dge!"), I swoop tubularly to
Piccadilly Circus for the lights.
IJB - Careful stehvelo, they are setting a trap. That's the last advice I'll provide. Knerdling to
Chalfont and Latimer.
Boolbar - I'd better move away from
Chalfont & Latimer then as I've stood there for ages.
Morden,
*token flipping* ahoy!
stehvelo - Frisbeeing a culture token to IJB for preknerdled advice, gratefully acknowledged, I emulate the Hopkins Progression and digress to
Covent Garden. For the mimes, natch. Ooh b*gger! 'Oo stole me walle'?
Botherer - Leaves me free to move ellipsoidally to
Oxford Circus for the Dreaming Spires and clown costumes.
nights -
Theydon Bois again, sorry.
Tuj - Ah! The
Hopkins' Flange (note the apostrophe - she came up with it not only after the Progression but also her unfortunate but amazing accident) takes me to... let's see, my chart says
Euston Square.
Botherer - Declaring Shenanigans at
Burnt Oak.
Whisperer - Tuj, you have a chart?
*Hendon* Central!
Tuj - Whisperer]
*cough* No.
FaRkLe, and here's 30 silver podumes for you.
nights - hey why don't I get handouts?
Lewisham.
SubZero - With the Periwinkle pejorative as my guide...Chalk Farm
IJB - inevitably leading me to
*PeriVale.
Brian - Ah ha! Invoking the Sixty-Fifth Perorgative I can thus use the Green/Green Lateral loop moving to Wood Green and jumping with the double twang bonus to Cockfosters.
Brian - Ah ha! Invoking the Sixty-Fifth Perorgative I can thus use the Green/Green Lateral loop moving to Wood Green and jumping with the double twang bonus to Cockfosters.
Tuj - BZZZZZT! Repetition! But
Rayners Lane will do me whether that last move was valid or not.
nights -
Euston while we're waiting to find out.
Botherer -
Caledonian Road seems like a good option from here. Now, if I can just avoid creating a vortex on the way through Holborn...
IJB - Dropping Line Velocity to 1.5 from 15 with the intention of causing board rotation as a result of kick-back inertia. This should take me off on a diagonal and shift me to the adjoining paraboloid, hopefully leaving me resting at
Harrow on the Hill with the rest of you in confusion.
Robin - Not only in confusion but also in
spoon. I shall retreat to
Morden and await developments.
Tuj -
CHalfont & Latimer,
waiting.
IJB - Have just been
shunted into a siding at
West Harrow. Come on, who was it?
nights - innocent - I was quietly restacking my podumes at
Southfields.
IJB - Out of
shunt by
shuttling to
Rayners Lane.
Boolbar -
Bank - L.V. generally 2 rising to 3 shortly.
Blob - Finally I'm able to re-enter (this is only my fifth move in this game despite playing the 9th move back in January 2003), Boolbar's
Gants Hill really knocked me out ...
two years I've been sitting on the sidelines waiting to play
Oval ! Phew ! At last !
Andrew Aguecheek - You're not leaving much choice for a new fellow! Earls Court I suppose then, despite it being a junior move.
Tuj -
Skittering to
Wanstead. Sorry Blob, I don't think that does much for you, but I had to secure the potential
peach podume point on the diagonal at
Homerton.
Anstonian - I'll just drop in here with
Colindale.
IJB - Employing
Watson's Strategy to take a diagonal to
Baker Street thus impeaching the Jubilee Line to the river.
ZK - Dropping by with
Clapham Common to sidle out via a broken ticket barrier.
nights -
London Bridge, bonuses applied for (six week wait expected).
Boolbar - [Blob] I see you are back!
Gants Hill
Tuj - Boolbar] Or at least was...
Pudding Mill Lane,
knip invoked on IJB.
IJB - Ouch! Heading South to
Green Park to chill out, leaving a
Henderson Expansion as a parting gesture. Deal with it as you will.
FZ - The 1833 Half Scrotum to Battersea Park. (...Not very inventive, though)
Botherer - Hmm.
Kentish Town, hoping my scrotum is a whole one.
Efros - What are you people on?
Botherer - [Efros] The 18.42 from
Sanity, calling all stations to Madness Junction.
Whisperer - Calling
Kathmandu Time with a line to
Timbuktu
JLE -
The Dark Side of the Moon
Botherer - Ooh, a tough one to follow. I'll have to
bifurcate to
A Night At The Opera/A Day At The Races.
Boolbar - Going mad with
Locust Abortion Technician / Trout Mask Replica
gabrielized - Taking my prudhommes to Piccadilly Circus where I intend to go to Starbucks.
gabrielized - Inexplicably found an orange podume, so on to
Canada Water. Hey, don't shoot the messenger.
Steveee - Ah, remembering Stratagem 3: Revenge of the Stovold I'd have to pick Morden.
Effable - day? night? dark? light? That leaves
Temple on the right.
Effable - out of patience,
Blackfriars
Spong - Not again...
Tooting Bec
Tuj - En route
Paddington
Effable - back to the Circle with
Sloane Square
nights - missing the point completely,
BANK!
Robin - (Still awaiting developments four months later)
*Farkle*.
nights - I'd better
°farkle° as well.
nights - uhm...
Lewisham, sideways, for three and then three more.
Little Jim - Gordon Bennett, I haven't been here for a couple of years! How are the lot of you, loathsome spongers to the lot!...have half a crown and
Morden
nights - why hello Little Jim. I think you'll find I am not a sponger, being closer to a leech in technique.
Turnham Green.
Wymo -
New Cross Gate, keeping powder dry for now. Well...if seven years between moves isn't dry I don't know what is.
Tuj - Impressively dry, that. And still a good aggressive move after it!
Gallions Reach
Inkspot - Which puts me on a unicycle somewhere north of the river, looks like
Mile End.
Wymo -
Highbury & Islington, straddling the Chelsea-Hackney Line and the East London Line extension, a move so staggeringly illegal it glows in the dark.
JLE - Woah. It's silenced the game for THREE WEEKS, it was that staggeringly illegal. I suppose I have no choice but to
BZZZZZZZZZT! for
Offside!
Tuj - Right, on with the game then? A throw-in to
Gants Hill.
nights - passed to
Pimlico, which I spelled with two 'p's a minute ago. heh.
Wymo - ...and driven boringly down the left wing to
Arsenal
Tuj - Hmm. This one needs some energy. I suggest a non-tactical bifurcation with spiral tendencies:
Oval / Alperton. Hopefully people will try to deal with this problem rather than running away, but then tactical bad play always was risky...
nights -
Seven Sisters / Ongar. not a lot else to be said there.
EmleyMoor - Which leaves me cornered:
Paddington (Circle)/Tower Hill. May as well yodel for a bit.
Tuj - Oops, ah well. I seem to do this a lot.
Ravenscourt Park / Ravenscourt Park, one heading north, the other south. I feel a little lost already.
Botherer - Enforced lapse in play means I can reunify at
Finsbury Park. Thank heavens for that!
Wymo - Do I detect the faint, tinny smell of another zeroed line velocity in quadrant five?
Bromley By Bow it is, then.
Tuj - Cheeky play Botherer, though you've reversed the LV and I can shunt you to
Leytonstone via
Turnham Green for your troubles. Sorry!
Sir Joseph Bazalgette - Negative LV? Now there's a novelty.
Which leads me, neatly, to
White City of course.
Robin - I see another four months have passed. Time for some decisive action, methinks.
* Farkle *
Wymo - Taking a tentative leave of absence from east London and sodding off to
Tooting Broadway for last orders. Mate in three.
Joe - Time to invoke the Third Left-Handed Rule of Dominance - Archway
Puckoon -
East - West moves, followed by some unused
toots & some
Left Hand Dominance... getting rather kinky in here...
Which leaves no choice but
Pontoon Dock invoking the new DLR route rule!
So there!
Wymo - A strange situation...nearly enough for the Waterloo & City line to be
diddled, which has never happened in my lifetime.
Sudbury Town out of sheer fear.
Puckoon - After 3 changes of underwear...
Rhyffedd Coed, just in time for 'Snowdon Ranger' to arrive, with the mid-day summer special service.
Wymo - By jove, I just broke my red podume in surprise.
Misses turn.
Salamander Pudding - Anyone mind if I just jump right in with both feet and a non-skid buffer, i'll make my play to
Surrey Quays
Bob the dog - Oh my goodness - I've been asleep. Sorry everyone,
Croxley.
Blob - (Playing what seems to be my annual move in this game) -
Pimlico side-swiping Salamander Pudding. One purple podume please.
Salamander Pudding - Take yer' podume and off with you. That being my last purple I feel I am no longer safe on the defense in the southern regions.
Whitechapel seems the only safe bet and may get me into a more balanced offensive set. As today is Little Ricky Day (Marking the arrival of Little Ricky on I Love Lucy in 1953) I believe I am entitled to three Red podumes from each of you.
Robin - [SP] Three Red you say? You're welcome - I wasn't using them anyway. Oh well, new year, new strategy.
* Farkle *.
Wymo - Oh dear, I'm stuck between
Bank and
Monument. How the hell did that happen?
nights -
Seven Sisters, bifurcation wild.
Tuj - I'll bifurcate away then, as is my wont:
Warren Street / Kilburn.
Salamander Pudding -
Liverpool Street / Tower Hill HA-HA! Take that. Winning is finally in my grasp.
Mine the Gap - Am I too late to join the long game...I have a
'get into St Johns Wood Free' card?
nights - Oh my, everyone's welcome in the Long Game. While I'm here,
Cannon Street / Walthamstow Central.
Pave (ex Mine the Gap) - Well then - I'll play my
'get into St Johns Wood Free' card, and bifurcate the move, placing equally 4 red counters and 3 yellow squibs on
St Johns Wood and Finchley Road. Not too bold a first move I hope?
Wymo -
Poplar / Swiss Cottage, obviously.
nights -
Camden Town / Seven Sisters, not so obviously.
Theydon Bois - Ahhhh! A little lateral thinking suggests the not so lateral Dollis Hill
nights - Damn you tube station, you!
Dollis Hill.
Pave - Ha ha!!!
Dollis Hill *bugger*
Salamander Pudding - What a lot of simpletons you are, one guy moves to Dollis Hill and you cant find a way to stay out yourselves? I suggest you all go back to the grammar school leagues and leave this game to REAL players.
Dollis Hill, ahhhh crap, anybody have some crow?
Pave - [Salamander Pudding] I still have a "Get out of Dollis FREE" card.....coff.
Pave - Maybe SP...but careful who you call 'friend'...You may say other 'things' when you see my latest Locks move...Ah heck...
*passes card*. See you at North End on our head to head...
*smirk*
nights - Paying the cost of LV redoubling, I make a break for
Cockfosters.
Wymo - With podumes tumbling left, right and centre I make a break for
Bermondsey. Oh, the humanity!
nights - Well, I think
Temple.
Salamander Pudding - Shoot... If noone else is around then
Mornington Crescent Oh yeah. My first win.
Pave - I object!!! MC after Ladbroke grove, and you call that a win!!! What about the green podumes you left scattered on the inbound stretch? Bit untidy!!! Unless....no...
NO You played
that move didn't you?The one with the thing and the reversed whatsit....that make it a fair win then! Well done ;-)
Salamander Pudding - I was watching "The History of MC: 1346 - 1491 Not Including 1408" on DVD this weekend and realized that any moves to MC made on the 16th of March must be preceeded by the killing of a roman emperor.
Pave - I find
Seven Sisters should be a good counter to your Bermondsey....
Salamander Pudding - Seven Sisters would be great on my counter, however I'll make do with the ladies around
Whitechapel
Pave - Move over SP old chap, I'm doubling up on
Whitechapel to compare notes! (Tuj is looking for a challenger in Lock my dear friend).
Pave - That must be an April fools joke of a move!...No one would play Moorgate after Whitechapel, surely! I mean, look at what happened in our match recently....Moorgate and Whitechapel would do that and more!
Wymo - Nips into
Shoreditch before they demolish it in two month's time. God only knows what
that'll do to the line velocity.
Phil - Ah, thank God the Bishopsgate pause is over. Is three weeks a new record in non-championship play? I seem to remember Chaddington and Harvings achieving a 4 week B'gate pause in the '88 World Championships, although the word on the street was that Harvings only played it so he could go on holiday with his mistress!
Anyway,
Goodge Street seems to be my best option at present.
Tuj - *sniff*
Hounslow West
Pave - After a faultered MC from Salamander Pudding, I feel I see an opening to play the final move as it follows on well from a sniffed Hounslow West. Using the OMICRON KAPPA ancient Greek semi-lucid velocity reduction method, I there fore play
Mornington Crescent....unless there is an objection, of course.
rab - [Pave] I've just unblocked the diagonal, so you might want to try that move again.
Tuj - [rab] Pave couldn't make it unless the diagonal was in Schrodinger's - if we knew it was blocked before or if we know it's blocked now he can't make MC a winning move. However, as he's attempted the diagonal is weakened enough for me to exchange my podumes for LV reduction and strile to
Mornington Crescent!
Audience -
*shouts, screams generally goes wild for Tuj*
This is the end of the line. There is no more.