There has to be one of these, doesn't there?
And so it begins...
Watty -
Stanmore. Well, hello. I think this counts as the first actual move on this server. I'm overwhelmed.
Stevie -
Victoria Like the Tux, Watty. You take this inaugural move thing seriously then?
rab -
Canada Water - controversially. (But it's my server so you play by my rules)
DrQu+xum -
Aldwych I claim the first ghost for at RabMC!
Inkspot -
Bayswater not declaring
home just yet.
Artaud - Right let's deflower the Thames shall we!
Elephant & Castle, where I will declare home, in fact I am declaring home there. The river has been crossed! Let slip the dogs of war, etc...
growse - Keeping it sane with
Borough CdM -
Bank, home at
Colindale Blob -
Chigwell I had to really. Home at
Osterley Bob the dog - The pale blue (Victoria) theme to this site inspires a pale blue kick-off with
Pimlico. Home at
Brixton.
Fat German - A whole new long game. Better dig in for a long stay.
Bounds Green.
rab - Staying in there with
Swiss Cottage Ibid -
West Brompton. Home at
Perivale.
Inkspot -
Stockwell keeping calm and increasing my options.
PaulWay -
Seven Sisters, but not (I repeat
not) invoking a Septimus Divergence.
blamelewis -
Chalk Farm [Paul Way] not even a little one?
growse - first
farkle of the game I fear....
Artaud - Quarter-strile to tum-ti-tum...let's see...ah, yes,
Upminster. Fat German & Inkspot in knid, Ibid gives me two gold podumes, Paul Way receives 3 red from me (crafty old bugger!) and rab is forced into
city slither and has to give me four blue podumes. Surely such friskiness cannot last!
Chalky - An
Earl's Court Riposte should put paid to such skittishness. Time to hand over the aubergine podumes, if you please.
Chalky - Then I must warn you, if you don't
Heathrow Terminal 4 gets it.
rab - Being in
city slither requires me to
pass for one turn.
Ibid -
Barking. Sends a nasty little spike down the District, but as long as no-one is at
Upminster they'll be just fine...
Monster -
Camden Town - No one will ever get closer!
Kantos Kan -
Dollis Hill - Kill Death, Kill Death, Kill Death!
Inkspot - Pleeeease no! Not while I'm in knid
Dollis Hill ... I'm not a happy bunny.
Bob the dog - Idgibum kibuntis!*
Dollis Hill ignoring the flashing green man.
*What does this mean? Blob the non-canine -
Dollis Hill - this seems a bit deep - I think we may be stuck here for a little while yet ... unless ...
Chalky -
Neasden is worth a try.
Kilydd - Chalky]Good move but I fear there may be dire consequences for other players, meanwhile
Bethnal Green.
rab - Let's try
Tuffnell Park.
Blob - Ah, we seem to be in a
P & G cascade ... therefore I feel forced to play
Parsons Green.
Inkspot -
Wimbeldon Park maintaining Zone 3 LV and placing a blue token on
Park Royal.
Ibid -
Kensal Green, unremarkably enough.
Chalky - Well, if you must ...
Clapham Junction Inkspot - Chalky]Thankfully your move was as a result of Artaud otherwise that move may have put you in
knid during a P&G cascade. Stabalising with
Holland Park .
Puckoon - I'll play a correctly spelt
Tufnell Park Blob -
Green Park scoring double - and gaining a bronze podume I believe.
Kilydd -
Elm Park and placing a blocking blue token on
Upton Park.
Puckoon -
St. Quintin Park and Wormwood Scrubbs growse - I'm forced into a double-back move which places me on top of
Harrow-on-the-Hill Ibid -
Willesden Green. A narrow escape there.
Puckoon - [growse] but
Harrow-on-the-Hill is actually at the bottom of the Hill.
Westminster Puckoon - there's nothing more sickening than "
Turnham Green", a rough sea is usually quite good for that sort of thing.
Kilydd -
Cannons Park its quiet out here.
Puckoon - I think I'll invent a station
Queensbury. Commentator - A sublime move that forces Ibid into
Quince. Hmmmmm.
Ibid - By my podume, someone will pay for this indignity.
Northfields.
Inkspot -
Kew Gardens to terminating the elusive P&G cascade and pick up an oak podume.
Lib - Tricky.......will womble down to
Wimbledon to live things up about. And colecting a pink token en route
Ibid -
West Acton. Polarity is reversed. LV is doubled. Freem is raised. Consequences are 'hilarious' as they dubiously claim before bad quality sitcoms.
Puckoon - Time for a cuppa.
Put's the Kettle and nips round to
South Acton Ibid - Declaring
Do you think it'll suit me? at
North Acton PaulWay - Declaring trumps at
Stratford rab -
Hyde Park Corner -
It's the best we can do and more than enough for the job, starting a P&G cascade.
Inkspot - There's a certain deja vu element to recurring nightmares
Wimbeldon Park PaulWay - Indeed. Onward and upward to
Stepney Green, allowing use of DLR in non-shuttle manoeuvres.
Ibid - No way am I being tempted onto the DLR.
Parsons Green Lib - Keeping safe with
Euston Square rab - Introducing panic with a quick hop to
Whitechapel.
Boolbar -
*panics* err, err,
Canada Water rab - Ambling sedately to
Rayners Lane.
PaulWay -
Ladbroke Grove, augmenting diagonals with a 3/1 Twill Pickering.
Bob the dog -
*Flumuxed* Bifrucating adjacent stations
St Paul's Bank capitailing on Twill but confounded by Pickering.
Boolbar - Looping around Pickering problem by using the Saintly prefix method.
St. Oval. Twill ratio at 4/1. LV forced to minimum 3.6 on Northern line. Tea and buns served in 5 minutes. Becks squared on the diagonals. Blue token surprise!
Inkspot - That LV caught me out forcing a Twill Twisting on the Northern Line, looks like no alternative
West Central.
Software - Dollis Hill, I'm new here and nt playing fair
Bob the dog - Welcome Software - to make a move in
bold try putting it in dohingy HTML things. HTML stands for "His Masters Voice Language" as it was designed by Richard Branson for operating the old ZX 80 Sinclaire computer games. For example, this <b>Dollis Hill</b> when typed in will come out like this
Dollis Hill. Which leaves me to make my move. Erm,
Dollis Hill.
rab - Blue touchpaper,
Dollis Hill, retire.
Boolbar -
St. Dollis Hill (see previous move). Tea/Bun ratio now at 2/1. Twill set to green. Blue token optional.
Blue touchpaper - [rab] I've checked with my financial advisor, and apparently my pension stocks aren't anywhere near enough for me to take early retirement.
Lib - Invoking a reverse cycle (the 4th Finsbury option, I think) and playing
St John's Wood.
Graham III - ...which I believe requires
Ongar for complete effect.
Boolbar - [Lib, GIII] Horrah! Now let's sort out that annoying LV hole at
Bank by shunting rab to
London Bridge after playing
Neasden.
rab - [Boolbar] Thanks. Thwarted my battleplan...
Puckoon - Throwing a Manx Kipper in the arena, I play
Cornaa. Boolbar - [rab] That was the point :o)
Lib -
Elephant and Castle Lib - Almost a week and no move in the long game?!? Hoping to spice things up with
Ealing Broardway.
Boolbar -
Tooting Broadway - smoking Puckoon's
kipper.
Ibid -
Fulham Broadway oblig. Graham III -
Broadway-Lafayette St.. Sorry, My LV jumped, and now I'm in New York.
Puckoon -
South Ealing [Boolbar] Kippers are smoked anyway... least-ways those from the Isle of Man...
Boolbar - [Puckoon] What! An Isle of Man kipper! That leaves me with no choice but to proceed directly to
Finsbury Park.
Ibid - Clearly, it has to be
Turnpike Lane Inkspot - Trying not to be caught at
Blackhorse Road Darren - You were caught, by the
Angel (fish).
Bob the dog - Bugger. That means we're stuck at
Dollis Gill.
Lib - No we're not. Not if I'm right and can play
Goldfish Green.
Ibid - Forces me to
Whiting City Tuj - Nicely closed...
Charing Cross, rectifying
spin and declaring home at
Goodge Street. It's nice to flex the old Html muscles again!
Lib -
Pimlico declaring all puce tokens void.
Tuj - Rules out an early
Jansen's Shift from Pimlico then...
I think I'll play
Parson's Green anyway, though it might trigger a cascade.
Ibid - If it triggers anything it'll be an improvement. Things haven't exactly been moving fast...
Golders Green Inkspot - There's a slight vibration on the Circle, Hey Presto!
Tower Bridge.
Tuj - That
spurges me then.
Chalfont & Latimer.
JLE - Ye gods, it seems to have spurged everyone else too. Perhaps it takes a new player (to this game at least, I don't think I've moved in it before) to get us going.
Totteridge & Whetstone - can't go wrong with Allbright's.
Tuj - JLE] Nice to see you back around. As a mark of respect, I'll resist
re-spurging at
Cannon Street and bi-furcate to
Shoreditch / Dollis Hill.
Lib - What's been started I can't stop, don't have enough tokens to fix the situation so will just weather the storm....
Dollis hill/ Dollis Hill JLE -
Barons Court / Ongar, for two different kinds of denial - Attacking and Orthodox.
Dujon - Whoa, JLE, you've put me way off balance as I enter! No defence, oh dear! I think
Prince Regent and
Royal Albert may help even things - and, with a little luck, take the heat out of my declaration of home
Royal Victoria.
Tuj - I'll flick out a dusty podume to unify by
Grumve's Second at
High Barnet. It's unorthodox and raises the
spin to 3.45, but I think that's mainly counteracted by Dujon's entry.
Angus Prune - Ugh! I've been spun! Highly impressed by Dujon's entry as it happens, but I'll leave my personal life out of this!
Kensal Rise with apologies for week-old podumes
Boolbar - [AP] It's not how old they are, it's how you use them.
Woodside Park!!! knobbling Tuj for 5 green tokens.
Tuj - Forced to
pass then, aren't I, to pay them!
Angus Prune - Woodside Park from Kensal Green? Traditional, aren't we? Cornered me onto the Northern Line though, curses...
Hendon Central and that should block any flying nidders.
Bob the dog - Ah, the
Cheriton-Ropley block. Angus] You forgot the Metropolitan intersection - you can't avoid niddlers.
Ladbroke Grove picking up a very pretty Hammersmith and City pink podume.
JLE -
Arnos Grove, sideways.
Angus Prune -
Essex Road vertically with a slight limp, depositing puse podumes on the way. [Bob] Do you mean nidders or niddlers? I wish to clarify, because I was under the impression that niddlers are supremely easy to block, and only used in the infant version of the game. Their appearance here would only serve to cheapen our efforts.
Tuj - Anything but
Pimlico! I'm stranded at
Alperton of all places - for 5 moves!
JLE - [Angus] I believe that was Five Ways (just south of Birmingham) until somebody blocked one of them and shifted the game into the past tense ;-)
Seven Sisters, but
not with a Septimus Divergence.
Dujon - Threading (and treading) warily.
Bank, which should waste what otherwise would have been a jolly good lunch break. I hope it's not a holiday or I'm in too deep and have no chance of picking up the small amount of input that this would normally afford; still, I suppose I could always toss down the hat and sing for my supper!
Huxley - My first foray into the MC5 long game sees me playing my traditional opening move by declaring
home at
Croxley Boolbar - [Huxley] Now that's unbalanced me somewhat. I'd best retreat to
Cockfosters and replot.
Inkspot - This is the opportunity I've been waiting for, that allows me straight into
Covent Garden, closing the gap to the right with three red tokens.
JLE - [Inkspot] This isn't a game of Baker Street, you know.
East Ham - since I don't have to play West.
Tuj -
Alperton/Alperton, highly unorthodox and could cause trouble. Enough about me, the move was quite naff too.
Blue Bananas - Did I just usurp someone with GPS there? How do you get your characters in bold? Master of the Underground...yet defeated by the age of technology...sad, really...
Angus Prune -
Bayswater[Blue Bananas] Just type in < b > < / b > on either side of your move, only without the spaces, IE, < b >Bayswater< / b >. When you submit, it will tell you if you forgot one of them. Anybody correct me if I'm doing it the hard way!
Huxley - [boolbar]Didn't mean to tread on your toes there.
Ongar permitted.
Blue Bananas - Very well. I controversially plump for
Pimlico Ibid - Not that contraversial. Vegard was partial to it in similar situations.
Fulham Broadway Lib -
East Finchley with Fireworks. If my claculations are correct then this makes all green tokens wild and all other tokens must be forefitted........ But If I'm worng then I fear that I'm in Knib. Hmmmmmmm.
Tuj -
Alperton. Looks like
knib, I'm afriad.
Spoonguard -
bzzzzzzzzzzt [Tuj] Are you allowed to go to Alperton again so soon?
Spoonguard - [Tuj] Hang on, ignore that, I just read back! Apologies.
Macgyver - You know, I haven't done this in years, but I'm going to hop on down to
Oxford Circus. What happens to my green tokens now, do I still need them?
Amphytrion - Twas
knib was it not? Better hang on to them until we have a referee's decision on that. But while there isn't one around,
Russell Square Huxley - The problem with entering a mid-game at Croxley is that a
Knib can domino across the board and set you up for a good ol' fashioned
spooning. Fortunately, I moved to
Ongar (with permission) and am somewhat protected. However, it will cost me a podume and I am stuck here until the
Knib is revoked.
*Farkle* Angus Prune -
Dagenham Heathway with a triple Helsinki.
Ibid -
Wapping. I love's a good wap.
Huxley -
Epping I've always been partial to a good epp.
Wol -
Barking. So I'm told.
Angus Prune -
Spindrift Avenue and no more puddings from Blue Bananas. They've gone off.
Tuj -
Alperton, threatening a
Grumley shift.
Boolbar -
*farkle* threatening no-one.
Angus Prune - An immensley threatening
Clarence Gardens with glow in the dark podumes and a flashy platinum token to boot. As long as no-one employs the backpass trump manoeuvre, I can get to MC in three.
JLE -
Down Street, using aforementioned backpass trump manoeuvre.
Angus Prune - Bugger.
Onslow Square then, and hang the expense.
Ken Tishman - Can I infiltrate Fairlop into the equation, here, using a combination of Maxwell's bifurcation and an anticlockwise loop move? (By the way, how do you do bold?)
html tag team - Ken simply follow this example <b>Paddington</b> =
Paddington but as you know, it would unwise to play that move at this moment in the game.
But while I'm here I'll pick up a couple of blue tokens, just passing through.
Angus Prune - [html] Distinctly.
Pinner superceding Ken's bifurcation with the Lombard Manoeuvre, last seen in the world cup final 1992.
Inkspot - AP]Quite and a manouvre made increasingly less used since the HP2000, but
Plaistow should strech the envelope a bit further.
Tuj - As Angus didn't declare which Paddington, I think I'd better be safe and play
Edgware Road / Edgware Road.
Riff - This looks like a good place to join in, since the Warwick Variance is acceptably low after Tuj's Double Edgware.
Aldgate, and declaring Home at
Bethnal Green.
JLE -
Aldgate East, declaring
power failure at Whitechapel.
Angus Prune - [Tuj] I didn't say paddington! (well I did just then, but that doesn't count) Anyhoo...
Dalston Kingsland 'cos I'm feeling rebellious.
Riff -
Tower Hill.
Circle Line Clockwise Tuj - AP] Never mind, did no-one any harm.
Bromley-by-Bow, as a last resort to try and avoid a
Kanskiy Lope.
Bob the dog - Tuj] Thereby advancing JLEs power failure across the whole of the District line and putting me in
Knip. However, I approve - anything to avoid a
Kanskiy Lope. Stuck at
Monument.
Boolbar - Declaring
can't see the wood for the trees with a larch at
Green Park.
Angus Prune - In that case,
Cyprus to counteract Boolbar's larch
Riff - Aha!
Baker Street!
Tuj - Dang! Bob the dog's
knip is transferred to me at
Covent Garden Bob the dog - - Freeing me to do some shopping in Brick Lane.
Shoreditch and I claim the Green Podume that Riff had his eyes on.
Angus Prune - Damn, too slow...
Stepney Green to open and Oranges and Lemons loop.
JLE -
Charing Cross, being the station nearest St Martins (Martin-in-the-Fields)
Angus Prune -
Bow Church praying someone has some turquoise podumes!
Riff - Hey, I needed that!
[Shakes fist at BtD] Um,
Shored- no, not enough LV...
King's Cr- no, that'll put me in Spoon...
Periva- no... pass, dammit,
pass!
Tuj - Ah-ha! As I currently have 4.5 turquoise podumes after avoiding the
Kanskiy, I can ghost to
Praed Street.
Angus Prune - Very good Tuj, but you forgot the Cromwell Bypass Leap. I therefore collect a wealth of grey podumes at
New Bond Street Z.K. - [Prune] I assume that those of us with pacemakers are still exempt from attack by the Cromwell Bypass Leap, or was that changed in the Health Act of '94?
Angus Prune - [ZK] '95 actually, but otherwise acurate.
Dollis Hill and damn you!
Tuj -
Hillis Doll, invoking a temporary
Boardman's.
Bob the dog - Indeed! Extremely temporary!
Dollis Hill.
Z.K. - Not until I move extravagantly towards
Dollis Hill, and I can't help feeling someone owes us a move.
Angus Prune - I feel, Ms Keeper, that you got us verily into this mess, and verily should the burden lay on your shoulders to get us out again. I shall
Dollis Hill once more, before I feel obliged to steal your sienna tokens
Zooological Keeper - If I could suggest anything but
Dollis Hill I'd gladly help. And keep your mitts off my tokens, it took me months to earn that last one.
Riff -
Dollis Hill... Maelberg Variance up 3/8ths... nearly there.
Angus Prune - Right then, you give me no choice.
Neasden it is, with one sienna token swiped from ZK for causing all the cafuffle in the first place.
JLE - Nonsense. If you were insane you wouldn't be sane enough to know that pleading was required.
Regents Park, raiding ZK's obvious Home while he's out, for one silver, one teak and one osmium token.
Zooological Keeper - Fine, but on the King James principal I'm claiming the teak one back, and while I'm about it, on to
Mansion House barbacoa -
Green Park as I'm in a genial mood. Oh, and a couple of ash tokens for me, I think.
Z.K. - It is nice to play with people who know what they're doing - I've seen some amateurs on The Weakest Link, really, they just keep shouting
Bank all the time. No style.
Angus Prune - [ZK] Chuckles... Was that a move, or just a passing social snobbery?
Angus Prune - Oh alright, we'll take it as a move...
Rayners Lane Zooological Keeper -
Covent Garden. JLE, have you nicked my cadmium tokens too? I can't seem to lay my hands on them.
Angus Prune - No, that was me, I was feeling sneaky, and you weren't looking...
Osterley. Obvious I know, but it's late...
Angus Prune - You swine! Erm...
Maida Vale, putting at least three players in spoon.
barbacoa - You'll never spoon me! Er, put me in spoon, rather.
Aldwych using the Old Lines principle. It is almost Remembrance Sunday, after all.
Z.K. - [AP] Sorry, I'm all in a quandry. Am I in spoon?
Angus Prune - No, I think you're alright. I played Maida Vale too close to Remembrance Sunday, and all the poppies have cancelled the spooning effect.
Whitehall with a wreath and Nimrod playing in the background
Zooological Keeper - In that case,
Barons Court, calling to mind Sandy's Bona Crescent strategem of 1966.
Boolbar - Oooh, that allows me to sneak in a quick
Hackney Wick. Remember 1959 MCWC?
Wol - [Boolbar] Ah, if you remember it, you weren't there. I remember Adlestrop, though.
Highgate, cemeteries wild.
Angus Prune -
Cemetery Lane then, in deference to the great Inigo Sanchez, Mexican champion 1923.
Zooological Keeper - I play a Bounding Gambit and opt for
Belsize Park, hopefully with impunity.
Angus Prune - Not with me around.
Lancaster Gate with slate podumes towards Kentish Town.
Tuj - Well, avoiding
Kentish Town that leaves me tagging 2 green 'uns at
Hampstead.
Zooological Keeper - Advancing 3 podumes to
Gospel Park, of the pewter variety (the podumes, not Gospel Park, although I did once craft a very attractive version out of aluminium for a modern art competition)
Zooological Keeper - It didn't sound right when I was typing it in.
Gospel Oak, then, and you get all my sienna tokens, dang and blast you!
Chalky - wafting in on an ambient westerly breeze, scattering a few crystal tokens over Zone 6 and landing neatly on the tropicana in
Kew Gardens.
Zooological Keeper - *hands Chalky some Intimate Cream*
Hanger Lane, claiming 2 crystal tokens for a Gaveston manoeuvre.
Angus Prune - Not if I get there first!
Gavestone Crescent Tuj -
West Brompton, delicately.
Chalky - Thanks ZK [I hadn't spotted the palm frond]. Hmmm .. time to don this false moustache and make a move on
Woodside Park [invoking facial hair].
Ibid - Facial hair eh? Well, I'll play
Marx and move to
Highgate then.
Angus Prune - Then I don a false beard in the hopes that I'll be asked why I'm wearing a false nose and move to
Smyrk's Road Tuj -
The Smolny Institute,
reversing.
Angus Prune - Eek! Um, pass, until I can think my way round that one...
Poisoned Pigeon - I shall come in with the trimmers and play
Kensington Park Angus Prune - Ah, good one. Now well prepared with
South Kensington JLE -
Chesham - this isn't Balham.
Chalky - Berkley Square [sic]?? Hmmm - I think I'll pass on this one and spend some time examining the latest Underground map. PP - I hereby challenge your move!
Poisoned Pigeon - Challenge my move? I think you'll find that it's perfectly legitimate if preceeded by two shams in a row! This was quite effectively deployed in the anniversary match of '22 whereby the player went on to win the game with a beltane twist!
Wol - As the song of the London Underground Railway Planning Sub-Committee tells us:
That certain night, the night we met,
There were projects abroad in the air;
There were navvies digging up the roads [an early reference to the 'cut-and-cover' technique]
And a station was planned for Berkeley Square.
I may be right, and I may be wrong
But I'm perfectly willing to swear
That those present voted by eight to three
to cancel the plans for Berkeley Square. So Chalky's challenge is perfectly valid - sorry, PP.
Chalky - Thank you Wol :-) ... wonderful singing, by the way.
OK PP - I don't want to come over all patronising-like but have you been playing the game called Mornington Crescent for very long?
Poisoned Pigeon - Years actually. Of course i did come into the middle of this game and may have miscalculated the set of rules you are using. If the Stanislaus Basic rules are being used then I believe, despite Wol's eloquent and lyrical singing, that I am perfectly correct. If however, you are using the Kaminski revision of 1893, then I would be wrong, in which case I shal revise my move to
Mudchute Chalky - Jolly good show. In my experience these
Long Games often fly on the face of strict and rigorous adherence to one nominated ruleset. As the excitement unfolds then so does the action drift, organically, as it were, from one ruleset to the other. For instance, Kaminsski revisionists had their day back in June this year. For now, Stanislaus Basic appears to be driving this train, albeit tweaked by that Watling Street Variation which was forced through on the 11th anniversary of Black Wednesday as recently as September. Damn nearly caught me out, I can tell you!
OK - now for a move. I'm still sporting an extra eyebrow, so I shall attempt to be rid of it by exploring that Quex lateral, hence a cautious
Bethnal Green.
Dazed5 - I am afraid I cannot let that superficially cautious (but in reality audacious), move go unchallenged. You know as well as I do that the Quex lateral can only be explored when Grebblings' Impulse Function is at a sine value of minus 1. Putting things right with
Colindale. Tsk!
Ibid -
Rayners Lane, impulsively.
Tuj -
Epping, effervescently.
Beth -
Buckhurst Hill, oddly.
Beth -
Wapping predictably.
Boolbar -
Shepherd's Bush, Dairylea.
Lib -
East Finchely, spurning the Dairylea in preference of Primula.
Dazed5 -
Alperton,seeing your Primula and raising a pack of Red Cow Triangles.
Chalky -
Waterloo sunset over La Vache Qui Rit. [Dazed -
Laughing Cow, surely?]
Lib -
Euston Square, and throwing Philadelphia into the equation.
Z.K. - Camembert, Camembert,
Cam-den Town. Kim - Double
Gloucester Road. I think it's a bit runnier than you'll like, sir.
Dazed5 - Red
Leicester Square. Cycling further.
Tuj - Well, just to throw it open, I'll use a turquoise podumeto get to
Limehouse.
Riff - Is that like a pimento?
Hoof Hearted - Colindale- a well known cheese from Yorkshire. P.S. I sufa from dailysex, so excuse me if I mess up
Chalky - Hoho - it seems the joker has arrived. I feel it may be just the moment to flourish a trump -
Elephant & Castle!
Poisoned Pigeon - Aaaaagggggghhhhhh! If it wasn't for the signalling problems at Finchley Road station (correct at time of going to press) I could have put you in Nid, Chalky with a dashing move to Baker Street. That would have taught you a lesson for the reckless trumping you have been doing. As it is I shall have to respond with a Royal leap to
Victoria Hoof Hearted - Tsk!Tsk! ZK I fear that you have missed the point and fallen into PP's simple but fiendishly cunning trap.I believe, however, that I can retrieve the situation by using the Faraday Lightning Strike. (It's an old trick but it just might work). Onward to Bethnal Green
Lib -
Chigwell hoping to cause some havock.....
Poisoned Pigeon - Only if you're blond! I however am not, so the simple but cunning repost would be
Lancaster Gate. Get out of that!
Zooological Keeper - Hoping to make restitution with
Barbican, and really rather think I will.
JLE -
South Kenton, knipping Poisoned Pigeon.
Angus Prune - After much deliberation,
Salmon Street, avoiding a tricky zone change and invoking Rutherford's Defence.
widey - Hmmmm time to fall back on Minskis "5th random step" and bring a BAKEWELL into play. Try that one for size!
JLE - Mmm, delicious. Bakewell - the thinking man's tart.
Great Portland Street.
Lib - [Pp] Sadly I'm not blonde. Heading towards
St Paul's, but might nip across the brdge.
Tuj -
Holborn, restoring some sense of normality.
Widey - BOSTON LODGE anyone???
Poisoned Pigeon - I shall answer that with the Kaminski's Repost, raising his missing two fingers and going to
Uxbridge on the diagonal. Handy as it has disabled access!
Lib -
Goodge street where the lifts are out of order! HA!
Tuj -
Goldhawk Road. Rather to easy to leave you
straddled there, ZK. Go careful.
Mr Trebus - Covent Garden [my beard performs there regularly]
ZK - *on the MC equivalent of tiptoe*
Bank! What
is that technical term I'm looking for?
widey - COPPICE LANE and gives you a free go!
Lib - Thanks widey. Will enhance my empire by taking
Oxford Circuswhich means unless someone scuppers my plan world domination will soon be mine!
LotUS - Ah well, then, here's that obliging spanner -
Ruislip Gardens placing Zone 2 in spoon and power failure on the Northern Line north of Warren Street
Tuj - Well, just to stir up some pandemonium,
Warren Street, lacking power and so
spiking the SG coefficient.
ZK - Evil! I believe I can just avoid danger by hopping to
Barbican. Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Widey - hmmmm a cunning move, which forces me to play a Kiev, giving me a direct diagonal into a Konstantinovka
Angus Prune - Ha! I supercede you with a Moscow and play
Tsvetnoi Bulvar widey - hmmmmmm I can only follow that with a simple Scotch Corner. I believe you now have the upper hand!
html endeavour - widey]welcome to the great game, however if I could just nudge yoou into putting a couple of 'tags' around your moves <b>
to make them bold </b> , I must show no preference to any player but please accept these four blue tokens.
JLE - [Widey] And it would also be sort of nice if you moved to an actual station, or location. Indeterminate locations are all very well as a gimmick, but entirely confusing when used as a standard strategy, not least to the player who is playing them...
Wien Westbahnhof, naturally.
Angus Prune - Moving it back into the zone and trumping wildly with
Pigalle Good News - *fanning the air around Angus* returning to a kind of ironic normality with
Edgware Road ZK - And leaving it again with
Barkingside. ZARBENIA - I would like to try a sub-sonic turn about for I may go to this place of a long time and stay.
Angus Prune - Right... You're new to this aren't you?
Custom House with a silver podume to boot
ZK - And while all that's going on, I'll quietly hum on to
Tooting Bec. widey - I see I see, I always did like
London road LotUS -
Mansion House, pulling Angus out of knid and putting Poisoned Pigeon in spoon as well.
Poisoned Pigeon - You think that can hold me? Me???!!! I shall come back with the three step, cross reversal.
Brent Cross, Charing Cross and
Kings Cross This will put Angus back in knid an LotUS in spoon and me free to roam where I will!
Angus Prune -
Golders Green/Willesden Green/Kensal Green forcing Pigeon to change lines at Rayners Lane
Widey - Its always an outisde move but I'll slip in a
Stanmore in the hope of getting at least 1 point!
Angus Prune - Old classic then -
Hangar Lane gaining on all sides.
momus - I think this move may become a new old classic. Reverse petticoats to straddle over
Hackney Wick.
nights -
Bounds Green - am I too late to play
trounce?
Angus Prune - Sadly not. I, however, shall shorten the laterals and play
Old Street Tuj -
Clapham Common then becomes a good
forcing move then. Avast!
nights - Zut alors!
New Cross!
widey - moving in a kind of zig-zag "don't step on the vortex" way, to
Earls court Inkspot - biding my time at
Brent Cross and placing an oak podume on
Moredon in preparation for my next.
nights - a good plan.
East Ham.
Lib -
East Finchely, just because....
nights - aaaww... finchley.
Bermondsey.
Puckoon - Have a care sir...
Clapham Common because...
Tuj -
New Cross (Zut Alors!) opens a neat temporal vortex, and by pre-re-investment I now have 1550 silvery-turquoise podumes!
nights -
Camden Town - I wish
I'd bought property in the 70s.
momus - [nights] my father did buy property in the 70's, in Belgravia actually, my mother dined with Romanian dictators and Japanese warlords and I'm currently number 2 in the Hit Parade.......*bows head*.actually this is a soggy tissue of lies, really
Amersham.
nights - [momus] feel better for that?
Loughton Angus Prune -
Tuttlebee Lane due to the retreating furcations
widey -
Ongar a)because its a safe move and b)they have real Scorpions there!!
Inkspot - widey]after my last play you are so kind, a simple use of Goldensteins Lever, the way is open for a simple slip pivot to
Brompton Road.
nights -
Stamford Brook, gesticulating wildly.
JLE -
Ealing Common, returning the gesticulations with some of my own. "And your mother too" attached.
Angus Prune -
Mafeking Avenue bringing Rankin's Hypothesis into function.
nights - [angus] what line's that one on? In the meantime,
Stanmore, playing
Mr Tickle's Special Ruling...
momus - declaring all my genes.."taxi!! to the runway!!"..
Heathrow Terminal 4..fake fingerprints in hand
Angus Prune - [nights] It's not. Being a seasoned player, I'm sure you're aware you do not have to restrict yourself to stations. Graham Garden famously played Quex Road (and Willy Rushton went on to win from there), earning a 10 for using Q & X. I shall now play
Yeoman's Row, taking one of your onyx podumes for asking obvious questions.
Little Jim - Lord, it's taken ages to find my way back to crescent after madeira and/or lethargicness set in. Well, as i'm here, er.....
Kennington widey - So my
Scotch Corner move was valid after all? I want my red n blue podumes back and demand a free go!!!!
comus - Christ was the source of the Nile..
Mornington Crescent nights - [angus] hilarious. does that mean I can play
Sandwell & Dudley?
Little Jim - [comus] surely you realised you were offside then? Never play a Crescent after Scotch Corner after all.....
Ealing Broadway to move us past the fourth parallelogram
nights - well, then.
Bounds Green again.
widey - adding a little nautical flavour and moving sideways to
Chatham comus - [LJ]I was off side indeed then , like Ike was in Turner,
Mornington Crescent Tuj - ...sorry, lad, but everyone knows you can't do that after
Chatham!.
Essex Road is a far more suitable riposte.
nights - [Tuj] good point, well made. I'm going to invoke
Mr Tickle's Special Surprise and play
Walthamstow Central,
Belsize Park,
Blackwall and
Chigwell all at the same time. I should clean up later on!
Little Jim - [nights] Not if I can help it, we'll halve the furbication to just a bi with
West Acton and
Turnham Green. Careful players, note the potential blocking moves from the south*wink*.
Angus Prune - [Jim] Why warn us? We all spotted them of course...
Green Park/White City swooping in from the north east and cornering Jim at Hammersmith.
nights - reconstituting with
Earl's Court. please retune your radios now.
Little Jim - [prune] fallen into the old trap eh? I cunningly had ou all looking south...now, I can swiftly counter charge with
Upminster Tuj - [LJ] Had you bargained for
Lambeth North, I wonder (
cackles sinisterly)?
nights - weaving madly at
Canons Park.
JLE -
Barking, threatening Little Jim with the Upminster Trick.
Angus Prune -
Farringdon. [LJ] Aha, so my cunning ploy worked...
widey - Taking it right to the edge of the board (so you will need a telescope to get a good view!)and playing
Cromar Beach allowing me to use the Eddison rule thus bringing
Battersy Power station into play...
nights - In which case, bifurcating with
Battersea Power Station / Borough.
Little Jim - Crivens! We'll all be naught and washed away if I dinna stave things off wiv a bad Scottish accent and
The Thames Barrier.
Inkspot - In that case I'll have to keep north of the river for now till the back wash dies down
Island Gardens Angus Prune - Keeping to Tuke's Arboreal with
Aspen Way Bob the dog - A bit off-side there Angus, but I suppose that can be permitted in the circumstances.
Stockwell picking up the tangerine podume JLE so cleverly diverted our attention from with his threat of the Upminster Trick.
JLE - [Bob the dog] You really should have learned by now. My bluffs are never *single*... I assume a certain amount of intelligence on the part of my competitors, and thus knew the Upminster trick wouldn't fool you. But what was the tangerine podume a decoy for?
Here's hoping you don't find out till it's too late.Warren Street - *not* playing the bi-directional driveback I suspect you were expecting, and planning to be knocked out of trouble with... and where are you going to move from Stockwell? You're fine where you are, but every move is a disaster...
Angus Prune - Words words words. And I was NOT off-side, not even by a little bit. Progressing, with Junkin's Defence, to
Dalston Kingsland Inkspot - That makes it safe for
Stamford Brook but I'm running low on tokens, time to look for an opening, if I raise the LV 0.5 that should gain a bit of time.
widey - Time to slip into
Ealing Broadway and await the next move!
Bob the dog - Thanks widey, just what I was waiting for. (Apparently)
sniped by JLE's double double crossing -
Holborn. For those of you who are new to the game, this effectivly puts the Central and Northern lines into double
knip (see Broadbear & Broadbear 1975). Any takers for the Jubilee-Grey tokens I left at Stockwell?
Angus Prune - Me! I claim them by high-tailing it to
Burnt Oak, placing the DLR under curfew conditions.
JLE - Perfect.
Holborn, via Green Park, shunting Bob to
Bethnal Green. On a double-knipped line *with no means of interchange*... I could escape from Warren Street by the Victoria.
Inkspot - AP] That was uncalled for and terribly mean, that leaves me in a bit of a crisis. But if I play an underscuttled
Golders Green the effect on JLE should be to send him to
Angel forcing a token cascade along Northern, all I have to do is sit here and wait.
Little Jim - Double G's and all to play for,
Picadilly circa 1937.
ZK - *elbows her way in with*
North Harrow if you'll excuse my audacity, I've been at the pink lemonade again.
JLE - So, beginning from Angel, I guess I've got nowhere to go except on foot from the double-knipped Northern (and a remembrance that, okay, Inkspot has a few extra podumes, but with the double knip he's going to
need them all - I'd be surprised if he actually gains anything by setting off the cascade, given what he's about to end up spending.)
So, at risk of wearing out a pair of shoes that weren't really meant for walking long distances, Great Portland Street.
Angus Prune - Best to steer clear of that foreclosed diagonal then. An incredibly underhanded
Cavendish Square, cutting off all of JLE's retreats.
Little Jim - Oh come on! Stop being so wet Googolplex and hit him where it hurts!
Manchester Picadilly via
Euston widey - Hmmmmm using my space-time conveter thus changing
picadilly into
London road circa 1928 and using the old link into
Victoria for a swift halfmoon manouver!!
Inkspot - Well I think that went rather well all things considered. That double knip was a small price to pay. But thanks to the cascade I seem to be up one red and one blue token. Standing back at
Gants Hill after placing a well worn Oak Podume on
Epping , with what looks to me like E R srcatched into its surface.
Tuj - Oh balls.
*farkle*.
ZK - It thus seems logical to play
Uxbridge, particularly as there's no-one else around, and thus earning back two podumes from Angus that were confiscated a few weeks ago. But I forget - do I get to choose what type or do you, Angus?
Angus Prune - [ZK] I do. You can have a yellow one and this peppermint one I found at the bottom of my coat pocket. Sorry about the fluff. Meantime I shall move to
Turnham Green, leaving JLE, Little Jim and Googolplex only one possible move. Not that they needed warning.
Googolplex the Amazing Balancing Goat from Luxembourg - [Angus] I assume you are using the
Derwhent Game of 1950 as a precedent? Which means you would expect me to play Harrow-on-the-Hill, but if you remember, Hugh Paddick was lucky enough to have a
Rainbow Token. I cash in all my tokens to gain this marvellous object, place JLE and Angus in
knip and play
Parson's Green, enabling me to control all lateral passes at my own discretion.
Tuj - With the exception of the
Minsky Lateral, as a
halfmoon maneouvre has been played in the last 10 moves, of course. Therefore I can counter (and more!) with
Walthamstow Central.
LotUS - [GtABGfL] However, you must remember that Tuj has the option of using 4 red tokens to deny the
Wrinski. For my own, I shall re-emerge from
Clapham South by
Alfonse's Manifestation.
Lib - I think its my turn.....
Grange Hill, HA! that should shut you all up!
Tuj -
This is where the plan unfolds. The
two red tokens I had are therefore
magnified thanks to
Winski's, and I can
trump on the Piccadilly line at
Pimlico. HA! indeed.
Angus Prune -
Battersea Rise, getting me out of knip & putting Googolplex in it. Also availing myself of one of Googolplex' ochre podumes, cutting off all his lateral retreats, as well as the odd flying one, foreclosing all of the area NW3 and disqualifying anyone who attempts the
Krasivy Contrivence or the
Johannisthaller Device (1872 ammendment) in the next three goes.
Not that you needed telling.
Little Jim - I needed it! 'cause at first I thought you were talking twaddle. Let's duckwalk to
Mile End for more tokens, mine's a shandy.
Angus Prune - Mine's a Vodka and Orange.
Brewhouse Walk Inkspot -
Belsize Park Pah! NW3! I laugh in the face of danger. Oh look a nice little shiney for my collection
Tuj - With a perverse glee,
King George V Tuj - Bowing to pressure:
King George V Little Jim - More royalty in the form of
Kings Cross - sans pancreas.
LotUS - [GtABGfL] Nah, it just
looks like a lateral pass - it was in fact an X-straddle. And a rather nifty one at that! I shall go
Kingsway - three of a kind thus lets me change my home station to
Barbican, and collect two silver podumes from Jenny.
Inkspot - Tuj] He may well be! But
Hangar Lane could well be to my advantage here.
JLE - [Googolplex] Enough of your predilections. ;-)
Ealing Common Tuj - I think I can
straddle to
Clapham Common, can I not?
Angus Prune - [Tuj - yes, but I wouldn't shout about it!]
Nectarine Way with a purple podume and in preparation for a
Washington Gambit Inkspot - AJ]Seeing as my token stack is a bit more healthy I can counter that with
Scunthorpe Twist to lower the LV to Zones 1 and 2 at the same time as playing off
South Acton Little Jim -
Banbury Cross to see [Inkspot]'s fine lady upon a white hoss...
widey - restarting from
Tooting Beck as I have missed several goes, but aim to do better this time!
JLE - [Googolplex]
*BOOT* (friendly of course). And on that note,
Chigwell Tuj - *swallows ice cube*
Hampstead,
splinge reduced.
widey -
Clapham common as I feel a womble hunt is way over due, followed by a diagonal shunt to
Green Park...
Little Jim - Thence for continuity....
Turnham Green and
Dollis Hill, reversing parallels, shunting [Widey] to the extremities of the Victoria Line, Nuffielding [Tuj] and placing me in a rather good position for the shipping forecast.
Tuj - [LJ] I should've seen that coming. Good ploy with the parallels, but I think that Beck's Coefficient's too high for a charge on the Northern Line, or even just a shunt to
Blackfriars. Meanwhile, I
*farkle* again resignedly.
widey - escaping the victoria line by deft use of the blue and black levers (but not the red ones!)and using Webbs theory of independant transmission to loitre at
Box Hill!!
JLE - [HB] Wrong religion, mate, wrong religion. At least at this juncture in the game.
St Pauls would have served you better if you'd gotten there first.
Tuj - ...but
Alperton even better, yes?
JLE - Only if you really *believe* in atheism, rather than just not giving a damn.
Inkspot - Oh ye of little faith, so many prayers left unanswered,
Oval.
LotUS - Then build a
Monument for your piety.
JLE - Oh, and
Elephant and Castle, which is named after the pub, for all those who believe that the real meaning of life will be found in booze ;-)
JLE - Oh, and according to "What's In A Name?" by Cyril M. Harris,
the definitive guide to the origins of station names, the name of the Elephant and Castle (the pub) does *not*, as is popularly supposed, derive from "Infanta of Castile" after a Spanish princess, but from its original proprietors - the Cutlers' Company, whose use of the Elephant as their coat-of-arms derives from the ivory used for their craft: the first recorded appearance of the Elephant-and-Castle coat-of-arms is by the Cutlers, at the marriage in 1445 of King Henry VI to Queen Margaret, who was most certainly *not* Spanish. (One presumes that the Cutlers were at the time one of the more important of the ancient trade guilds, who would appear turned out in their best livery as part of important processions and ceremonial occasions.)
Herr Bratsche -
Royal Oak, continuing the licensed premises cascade.
Tuj - Well, somewhat saddeningly forced to
Mudchute.
Little Jim - [JLE] needs to get out more....
Seven Sisters.
JLE - [Little Jim] needs to actually look at what's *around* him more...
Walthamstow Central.
Angus Prune -
Gants Hill maintaining a northward drive with banked Notley Spin.
Little Jim - [JLE] needs a sense of humour;) heh, let's go Picadilly Circus for the clowns!
JLE - *splats Little Jim in the face with a custard pie*
Oxford Circus. Clowns? Does anybody actually find them funny? :-)
Angus Prune - [JLE - no - terrifying!]
Circus Street. Always preferred sword swallowers myself....
Tuj -
Chalfont & Latimer, the standard riposte.
Inkspot - That has opened up
Mansion House what a gift! I'll just reverse the flow on the Circle and the District to shunt Googolplex the Amazing Balancing Goat from Luxembourg to
Upminster.
JLE - [Inkspot] That's a bit of a big shunt isn't it? "From Luxembourg to Upminster"...
Blackwall.
Herr Bratsche - I'm horribly confused - my Fronsky diagram and Becks calculator are giving me completely contradictory readings. Nothing for it, then but to
* Farkle * until the situation has stabilised.
Little Jim - *whangs an egg nog at JLE* that's the spirit laddie!
Chalk Farm via
Rosemary Avenue and
Morden. Dark, isn't it?
LotUS -
Chalk Farm shunting Little Jim to
Amersham. [LJ] Dark enough for you?
Puckoon -
... ... Camden Town (Bank to High Barnet Branch). Crossing points 20a & 20b very carefully... that's where the train derailed last October.
Tuj - Yeah, I'm left there too, again...
*farkle*.
Little Jim - Chiz chiz [Molesworth]!
Oval.[LotUS] pass'us the torch then...
Sir Joseph Bazalgette - Stops off at
Embankment to see what the
Metropolitan District Railway Company have done to my specially designed riverside...
Tuj - Well, last I heard they were more concerned about the earthquakes in
East Acton.
Eccles - Ello 'dere.
Winds light to variable. Errm...
Balham gateway to the South.
Tuj -
Essex Road, to avoid
dedding again.
JLE -
Cannon Street, firing.
Tuj -
South Harrow, touche...
Puckoon -
West Harrow, threeche, even... how are you at mathematics?
widey - Being flusterd and botherd at
Kings cross.....pah, where's my sandwich?
Little Jim - Crusts on or off? Crusts on, it's just behind the bread bin, crusts off, not sure....oh, hang about,
Morning-...arse! Neeped and tattied!
ZK - Stopping off for a scratch in flealess
East Finchley. plump - Thy
Wimbledon[sorry SNS]
Sir Neddie Seagoon - Give us this Bray in
Maidenhead,
and forgive us our bypasses
I see others are sad enough to know The Bus Inspectors Prayer. Puckoon - as we forgive them that bypass against us
lead us into
Thames Ditton,
continuing the flow...
Puckoon - ***Squorrox!*** the second line is meant to read, "Lead us
NOT into
Thames Ditton...
damned keyboard never could spoil proper. JLE - but deliver us from
Perivale Sir Neddie Seagoon - [JLE] that line should be
"but deliver us from Ealing." which is followed by
For thine is the
Kingston,
Puckoon - the
Purley and the Crawley.
widey - Running in reverse through
Chatham and working may way to
Neasden and getting a shinny pink and green
on the way.
Little Jim - Are we playing "Weakest Link" variant [Herr Bratsche]?.....
Shepherd's Bush, just near the Safeway
Tuj -
Pimlico,
snadge! declared.
Puckoon -
Shepherd's Bush, the one not near Safeway's...
Widey -
Ongar with a quick stop for a brew and a change of pants!
LotUS -
Kingsway,
trumping Puckoon.
Puckoon - Hmmm... [LotUS] I'll see your
Kingsway, and raise you
Kingsbury.
Little Jim - A foul!....Scorer, a point away from [Puckoon]. Ummm....
Neasdon, but cautiously and maybe slendiferentially.
JLE - Foul denied. Point deducted instead from Little Jim for incorrect challenge. The move to Neasden, however, stands (although being misspelt) and is strategically sound, and forces me to
Colliers Wood.
Lib - Re-entering the arena with a 'safe'
Victoria.
Herr Bratsche - That forces a Boardmans round for the next six (at least) -
Neas Up.
Tuj -
Bowditch,
straddling.
Puckoon -
Shorechurch, leaping... and why not?
Little Jim - [puckoon] Because of the pond there maybe? Appears you may have taken a dive there my friend....
Mortlake for the brewery, and to move [Herr Bratsche] off centre.
widey - A quick reversing manouver via
Kings Cross picking up one aquamarine podume on the way....
LotUS - Paying a veridian token for a quick stop at
Temple.
JLE - [Little Jim, re. Puckoon] He's fallen in the water!!
Knightsbridge...
Tuj -
Clapham Common / Finchley Road, for the hell of it.
widey -
Bakerloo and stopping for tea (Assam) and biccies...parp!!
Princess - A holding measure
Dollis Hill.
Kantos Kan - Absolute Elsewhere to
Putney Bridge in a single bound.
Tuj -
Highbury, obviously, though sadly.
nairn - why does the scrabble server keep breaking down. ihave withdrawal symptoms
widey - Singing sea shanties and being all nautical whilst pausing at
Cutty Sark Tuj -
Crossharbour & London Arena. Safe.
Herr Bratsche -
Finsbury Park, with fond memories of seeing the Grateful Dead at the Rainbow.
Puckoon - [Little Jim] There not that obvious. Oh errm
Mill Hill Park and be damned.
widey -
Ongar and a quick slip into reverse!
LotUS -
Alperton and sending an LV spike down the Picadilly.
JLE - Wrong way, I'm afraid. Sending it *up* the Piccadilly would have made more sense, but as things stand, the very first person your spike hits will be your own good self after it passes around the Heathrow loop.
Of course, this could have been your intention, but it seems unlikely from where I'm sitting. Meanwhile, Eastcote.
Tuj -
Boston Manor, dissipating that
spike.
Tuj -
Ipswich (yehyehyeh!)
Little Jim -
Pall Mall neatly spiking [JLE]! I know now why [LotUS] went that way...
Puckoon - Not a common move, but
Preston Road and be damned I say.
ZK -
Hatton Cross (and
Richmond furious :))
nights -
Belsize Park, sideways. [ZK] HA!
LotUS - [JLE] Isn't it nice when you can get other people to do your work for you ;) [LJ] Thank you very much.
Now, careful use of the Holtz-Friedel Platform Twist allows me to play a rather powerful Angel. That'll be two silver podumes or four purple tokens from everyone please.
JLE - [LotUS] Ah. So I'm not the only person who bears grudges across servers. Pray you never face me in the Lock Cup ;-) In the meantime, one silver and two purples passed over since you seem to be assuming equivalence, and I shall start plotting my revenge in *this* game following my retreat to
Uxbridge.
Ye olde gong farmer - [JLE] is that Metropolitan, Belmont Road, High Street or Vine Street?
Twyford Abbey Halt widey - Using Sir Albert Nodworths second rule of "low pressure steam condensing" I'll play
Cutty Sark and await the arrival of my TEA!
JLE - [Ye olde gong farmer] Yes.
widey - Using Pete Watermans defunct "Manx Rule"
Union Mills LotUS - [widey] 'Fraid you'll be waiting a long time, with this blocking move on
Custom House.
LotUS - [JLE] I can quite imagine that circumstances may contrive themselves to bring about that state of events. I look forward to such a battle with anticipation. I have but you (and other MC luminaries, of course) to thank for my education here.
nights - I'll try
Walthamstow Central,although I've never heard of any other kind of Walthamstow.
widey - Oh Bugger.........moves back ten paces...........
Little Jim - Has no one read Fanshawe's third? Or Teddy Pendergast's second? Well,
Tooting Beck and shame one you! Shame!
Thrax - Arriving late, but still well before last orders, I'll play
Goodge Street.
Tuj - Three blue podumes to me, as that's my home, considering
Flernson's Amendment is in force after my previous farkle. I'll leave them at the
Bank.
nights -
Blackfriars, gesticulating wildly.
Boolbar -
Wonders if he should move from Shepherd's Bush
yet. Decides not to. JLE -
Tottenham Court Road, getting out the way of the spike, and adding a vertical block on Bank. Wall yourself away in Custom House all you like, LotUS: keep those blocks building higher and the chances are you'll find yourself on the wrong side of them...
widey - Damn, another missed turn...............has anyone got volume 12 of the rule book, mines missing!
LotUS -
West Ham [JLE] You forget about my ruby red podume stack that's pulsing quietly away in a Secret Location
TM. Declaring
token boon for all players EXCEPT JLE and Ye olde gong farmer - nothing personal, just that you two are out of position to take advantage.
Little Jim - I'd just bought a nice new token at
Hammersmith but ta for the offer LotUS....I might just throw in
Krapy Rubsnif for the sheer frivolity of the moment!
Atkar - Dont lie you fucking guy
DJfrith - you kiked my dog you mopther fucker
DJfrith - i just hacked the mainframe
ATkar - THE ANGRY CAKE FUCKING SWORE AT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DJfrith - and infected it with artmoney and memoryhacker
Atkar - they cut the hardline its a trap get OUT!!!!!!!!
DJfrith - well good i just hacked the fbi there planning to attack britain
fgar - www.funnyjunk.com/relax
patmatcat - ok stewart im sending the picture of my cock now
sam - oli you smell like shit
lester - hello i am lester and this is my SHOP!!!!!!
Irritable Train Driver - Following that slight detour through Hackney (where else would you get such *shocking* behaviour?) South Quay DLR
Tuj - Someone's left their radio on, static interference... though i think what Boolbar said could've been for the Lies game?
Deptford Bridge.
widey - aha found volume 12 and invoking Blechfords quantum diversion rule (part 2b).........
Tooting Beck Angus Prune - Back after a shocking absence! And what the hell was all that highly intellectual conversation above about? Anyway, making allowances for scurile rogues -
White City Little Jim - No, never White City, not White City, please for the love of David Bellamy not White City!...it can only lead to
Kennington....I can feel the tube map wincing...
JLE -
Blackfriars. [LotUS] Nothing personal intended, I'm sure, and none taken. Purely a matter of circumstance. So, a relatively benign side-straddle here, but a sound defensive block to counter any attempted drivebacks or pincer movements.
LotUS -
Fishtailing to
Gunnersbuty - pegging Kew Gardens.
Quirkafleeg - Blimey, what have I wondered into here?
White City.
widey -
Fenchurch and a quick chat with the ghost of Derek Guyler.....
Tuj -
Finchley Road and Frognal, because I can.
Angus Prune - Blindingly.
Colindale, as I feel it is feeling underused
Chalky - apropos of nothing ....
Russell Square.
Just because I wanted to be the posting person on every game in MC5 this evening.
Aren't you the lucky lot? Non-sequiteurs rule OK.
Poisoned Pigeon - After a shockingly long absence, I come in with a move very close to my heart;
Bank. Please note the subtle double loop with reverse.
Tuj -
Kew Gardens, with noted lack of subtlety.
BoneyCork - The unerlying transmigrated mainline you left open would be perfect for...
Kentish Town Boolbar -
Snaresbrook - canceling out previous imposter move.
JLE -
Kew Gardens, playing a driveback on Tuj, and shunting him firmly into the buffers at Richmond and watching him bounce back past me to
Willesden Junction via the North London British Rail line. [Tuj] As LotUS will no doubt enlighten you, I bear cross-server grudges ;-)
Tuj - Well, funnily enough, thanks to that NLBR detour I can get to
Essex Road and
quang you. Don't worry.
LotUS - [Tuj] Yes, I still bear the dizziness from the cross-server loop that JLE shoved me into. And all because of one innocuous comment. I dunno, the quality of MCers today...
Anyway, Shadwell blonking Poisoned Pigeon.
Tuj - [LotUS] I seem to recall the esteemed JLe and myself having a bit of a coming together back at !York way back when (unless my memory fails me)...
Still, why not bring some competitiveness and enthusiasm into it? Bearing that in mind, I'll
*farkle* Angus Prune - Adding craftiness to the bargain with
Lizard Street. Although I think I've blonked myself...
edna - i just peed my underwear hows that for being cool yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
evil_edna - I'd just like to say that edna is nothing to do with me, and I am still perfectly continent. Thank you.
Mark Pullman - Managing Director I am fucking serious guys, I love to suck off goats, particularly Welsh ones. English ones I just tease.
Karl Pugh - I can't believe it, they ask me to fax it over and I've faxed it twice already, and then they got the cheek to tell me that the prices are wrong.....now, hang on a minute, no disrespects but, what do they know about cottage doors?...eh?
Inkspot - Time to shut down the lifts to stations on the Circle, and move safely to
Croxley.
LotUS - Interesting.
Oxford Circus (Victoria Line only) - trapped underground for the time being.
Litte Jim -
Tottenham Court Road from the south. Underground naturally but tunnelling past [LotUS]
Angus Prune - Shall go with Gram's Conjunction and slip through the shadows to
Marble Arch Puckoon - I'll play the Schizoid Tangent with...
Highgate, which became
Archway (Highate), then
Highgate (Archway) to end up as
Archway...
JLE - And, I note, implicitly invoking the Piccadilly Ruling. Just as well I'm not trying to shunt from Ealing Broadway or we could have another Moon Over Morden incident. As things stand,
Essex Road, de-quanging.
Boolbar - Simplicity can be beautiful -
Highbury & Islington. Now just look at what has happened.
LotUS - It's... all... opened up. That's quite staggering. Never in my years have I seen such a wonderful reduction as that. All players are back in ground state, the diagonals are open, all barriers are up, power is back on...
So I might as well take advantage and set up anew at Great Portland Street.
Inkspot - Hold on Lotus, I think Boolbar is onto something and I'm just a tadge bit concerned, are you on the Circle or Hammersmith & City? I won't mention District. I thought we had agreed not to mention the
"Moredon incident" , but the damage has been done now. As you know I'm not one to point fingers, but, if JLE could just delay the backwash from the de-quanging for a couple of turns. Stroking on a bounce at
Gunnersbury JLE - [Inkspot] In fact he's on the Metropolitan, since the District doesn't serve GPS. The logical ramifications of this should be obvious to you. Backwashes be damned,
Swiss Cottage, with a semi-inversion.
Tuj - Hmm. So, am I presuming that, from the Metropolitan I can make it to
Edgware Road? That leaves
all the diagonals clear!
???? - I'll see your
ER and raise you
GR or Gloucester Road.
Inkspot -
Holland Park staying clear JLE and the diagonals, he is up to something but not sure what, and perhaps in league with Tuj. Or am I just being paranoid?
JLE - I'm certainly not in league with Tuj. On the other hand, when am I *not* up to something?
MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHHH!!!Sorry, just had to get that evil laugh out of my system, it wasn't because any plan of mine has come to fruitition.
Yet.
Edgware, driving Tuj off-Road.
Tuj - JLE] That was very naive of Inkspot, wasn't it? Mind you, I can snatch a podume by leaping off-road over to
Bounds Green. Funny that.
JLE - [Tuj] Ever heard of the "Poisoned Podume Variation" of the Cripplehead Lateral Attack? If not, I believe you're about to...
Boolbar - [JLE] Nasty! Still it leaves me clear to sweep up a few tokens on the
Central Line -
Woodford with
token extension rule through to
Epping.
Inkspot - At last, someone with their head screwed on the right way round, and Boolbar straight away sees something in JLE's play. Very mysterious. I need to dig out my
Fronskey Diagram again. Attack being the best form of defense
Amersham.
Tuj - JLE] True, I have now. But I believe that when Inkspot dredges up his diagram it will show the optional
spike currently in play which delays the PPV of the CLA until 99 years have passed or all players have died, whichever comes first. And before I start to feel smug, I think I'll be at
Dollis Hill for a long time anyway...
LotUS - Avoiding all of these shenanigans at
Shadwell.
Inkspot - At your peril LotUS. I have my rather well worn diagram now but no
spike! Has Tuj hidden it in one of the folds? Very cunning you old fox. Moving to
Bermondsey increasing my podume defences by factor of 0.01.
Tuj - Inkers! I fear I am unmasked! Hiding my whiskers and sniffing the chicken coup at
Leicester Square.
Flix - Well, I'm going to enter safely with a Plinge defensive at Chalfont & Latimer. Oh, and I believe that'll have some interesting repurcussions for those on the Circle line...
Boolbar -
*wonders why all the green tokens on the Circle Line have disappeared* JLE -
*notices that Tuj is suddenly going very green indeed*
*laughs evilly*Yes, where do you think I've been diverting them to. A severe case of Unwanted Token Loading, methinks - let's see how he gets rid of *that* lot. I'll carry on laughing from a safe distance, namely Loughton.
Tuj - Googolplex] I owe you one, very muchly indeed. A relieved
Pimlico, where I build a statue in honour of Luxembourg.
Nebs - I have been following this game since the beginning and, after long and careful consideration (and deep regrets that I did not play after the obvious mistake at move 2795), it would seem that you have finally left the right flank open.
Barons Court.
Robin - Well in regulation play it would be
Mornington Crescent and home for dinner! But as it is a long game, I shall have to be content with a half-strile to
Roding Valley.
widey -
London Road because I'm lost and living in a time warp and haven't played for a week or too..........boo hoo
widey - I have a question! If you are placed in
knid do you have to wear the green waders or the yellow calf cut wellies?
Tuj - A predominant
*farkle*, adjourning.
LotUS - [widey] Personal preference depending on where you went into knid. You don't have to wear anything but it might hinder an escaping move through Westminster or Embankment if you don't.
I shall saunter along to Camden Town, adjourning to the World's End.
Puckoon - [widey] the only rule re-footware is that it must cover the whole foot... which leaves me with a move to
St James' Park nipping to the
Buckingham Arms for a dose of
Waggle Dance.
sandycat - since this is the first time I've ventured in 'ere, better play it safe... salsa to
Shoreditch where the choice of shoes is endless (matching handbags available for many styles)
Ella - I am new to this game, although having observed for some months and researched the rules in some detail, may I be so bold as to assume that my loafers will enable me to skip nimbly to Edgeware Road as an opening move?
Ella - Or even
Edgeware Road (steep learning curve)
Poisoned Pigeon - Having been out of it for a while, and seeing an easy opening, I trump you with a pair of circuses,
Picadilly Circus and
Oxford Circus Of course this does rather narrow the options available to everybody, but does open up some rather interesting loops!
Novice - A little unusual I know but what the hell - Hillesden Junction! (Reverse Zarkofsky Side Step)
Bob the dog - Novice] Hello! In most cases a move may be indicated by making it
bold. This is done by typing a '<' followed by a 'b' and the a '>'. Type the name of your move before typing another '<', a '/' then another 'b' and closing with a '>'. Try it out on 'preview' to see if it works before hitting submit.
However, your move was pretty damn hot for a novice. I am now in
knip and will have to
farkle.
Tuj - Having not played for over a fortnight, I am allowed to use
Pegg's Convention and get to
Monument, with a purple podume on
Bank.
Newkid - I can only think of playing
Camden Town which pretty much means I won't be winning. Not even sure why I bothered entering the fray...
widey - A quick reverse and slip via
Euston and envoking
Shmidts 3rd rule of Teleportation....I await my fate!
LotUS - But I'm in no position to take advantage. So it'll have to be
Euston Square on foot.
Tuj -
Westferry, which, if I'm reading my
Perigar Table accurately, takes widey to...
Northmapton!? Hang on, that can't be right...
widey - Eeeeegods!!! Now I'm in a bit of a pickle, going nowhere on the avoiding loop at
Northmapton not to be confused with
Northampton I will bide my time.................twiddle, sigh,***
Inkspot - After such a break in the game play, a bullish
Elephant and Castle.
JLE - Followed by an elephantish
Bull & Bush.
Boolbar - Keeping the ampersand employed -
Chalfont & Latimer Tuj -
Finchley Road & Frognal, almost constructing a cascade, but settling for picking up a puce podume instead.
Chris - As a complete beginner, I find all these ampersands a bit intimidating. So with due deference to my more experienced elders of MC I will hie me to the relative safety of
Old Street LotUS - Tee hee. Sneaking into
Barbican.
JLE - I think I'm getting off the underground network just in case.
Alderley Edge...
Kiwi Chris - LotUS's proximity at Barbican is making me a little nervous, threatening as it does to unsettle any semblance of balance in my early game. So I will move on with alacrity and plumes held high, to
Blackfriars - hope this isn't too much of a newbie move..
Inkspot - [Kiwi Chris] newbies are always welcome, you will find me fair, kind, conciderate to other players and always generous. However there is some unfinished business!
Ruislip Gardens and introducing an LV spike on the Jubilee westbound.
Kiwi Chris - Egads! How did you do that? Retires in disarray to
Seven Sisters to reconsider.
JLE - Just as well I *did* get out of the way.
Long Buckby, still out of town.
Tuj -
*farkle*, demurely, watching the melee.
LotUS - Springing from Barbican to
Arsenal and wading into the melee, sabre up on high.
Kiwi Chris - Seeing new opportunities arise -
Leicester Square Tuj - Amazing, I can semi-straddle to
Putney Bridge, and initiate a
cross-server blot!. I have no idea where you can go from there...
Kiwi Chris - Well that does cut down the options somewhat ... the only place I can reasonably go without shedding too much LV now is
St Pauls... so that's where I go
Kiwi Chris - Such a long pause, a gathering of breath before a huge plunge perhaps? Unnerved by the long silence, I scuttle to
Southgate Sir Joseph Bazalgette - Well... I can but move
Junction Road for Tufnell Park, via
Junction Road Junction.
Tuj -
*farkle*, established since 1985.
Puckoon - Oooh nasty... Well I think that laves me with a quick visit to
Broad St, for Petticoat Lane Market (Which isn't in Petticoat Lane).
Kiwi Chris - Right then, feeling a little continental (but she doesn't mind, really), it's
Holland Park for me :)
LotUS - Which forces me to
Stratford.
VB - Using the Butter Warble precedent I shall stride manfully into
Ealing Broadway Kiwi Chris - I don't like the look of the Deschapelles Oscillation caused by that last move. Consulting my Federov Tables suggests that the best way to return some balance to the game is to march boldly to
Blackwall and place a mauve podume into play. This I now do.
Puckoon - hmmm... Looks like a quick colour (color for those on the wrong side of the Atlantic) round
Whitechapel Tuj - Invoking a
colour cascade to get the necessary momentum to
strile to
Silvertown,
doubling my podume stack at
New Cross Gate.
Sir Joseph Bazalgette - And now for a Double colour move
Golders Green.
Mearly a crossroads, in the middle of fields, in my day. Kiwi Chris - Moving carefully, so as not to disturb newly re-established balance ... tip toe cautiously to
Edgeware Road Puckoon - At last the W&C delivers me to the
correctly spelt Edgware Road, Circle Line.
Rasputin - Alas, this edging about has bunched up so finely that according to my Dominant Lane Axis Graphs, I could unravel the entire structure and enter the game with a single Reverse Archipelago Pin straight across the third bilateral to
Mile End.
nights -
Westminster, but I seem to have dropped the
legume counter somewhere.
ZK - Gadzooks! Surely this doesn't leave me with a fiendish
Dollis Hill?
Lib - Sucked in....
Dollis Hill.
Tuj - Fidgetting madly at
Dollis Hill.
nights - oh for the love of God no!
Dollis Hill! Kiwi Chris - You know, I think I saw this coming ... doesn't help me avoid it though. Sighing now, at
Dollis Hill Puckoon - Sorry I'll have to pass as my daughter's
"Dolly's Ill".
nights - still hopelessly mired in
Dollis Hill. Sniff.
Tuj -
Guess Where. Again.
nights - I'll spend 4,186 purple podumes to break out of this D****s H**l loop, and play
Temple Kiwi Chris - Podumes well spent methinks ... move with alacrity to
Hackney Central Sir Henry - Taking an artistic move to the North of Hockney Central aka Blackfriars
nights - nice and elaborate. I counter with
Sudbury Hill.
Tuj - ...and introducing
Bermondsey,
reversing.
Lib - Stepping in through
Lancester Gate.
nights - ah. OK then, changes things a little. *thinks*
Cannon Street.
Kiwi Chris - Swooping magnificently upon
Northfields Tuj - Shuffling schemingly to
Seven Sisters.
widey - stuck at
Euston for the last 9 weeks..........arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Puckoon - Since [widey] has
Euston stuffed, I'll travel to Birmingham (Moor St) via
Marylebone.
Sir Henry - Having wed the french medial condyle of the humerus we move swiftly to a reception at
Highgate to be reunited with distant relatives
Tuj - Breaking into this throng of Knights of the Realm with
Knightsbridge.
Sir Henry - Taking a leaf from Sir Joe -
Mudcute (sorry!)
Sir Henry - .... er should read
MUDCHUTE . . damned war wound
LotUS - Sidling back in to
Stockwell.
nights -
Holborn, raising overall LV by five points.
Sir Henry - Ahem -
Morningto . . . . hang on, is Haskin's Tally invoked? If so I'd better change to
Victoria (handy for New Scotland Yard.
The Red Bladder - Descending upon
Great Portland Street with my ravening hordes following along behind me...
Sir Henry - Waiting at
Pontoon Dock for the railway to come
nights - you might be waiting a while.
New Cross,
chav declared, and shunting ZK (wherever she is) to zone four.
Sir Henry -
Vauxhall [nights] sorry but you can't declare chav unless you can achieve a diagonal four vector leap - which isn't possible from Pontoon Dock, unless I am mistaken! Perhaps the new-ness of the station confused you? nights -
Oxford Circus, without lions.
[Sir H] you might be right. on the other hand, I might just be being an idiot. it's your call. n. Tuj - Denying
chav at
Knightsbridge.
LotUS -
Roding Valley - natural counter I believe.
nights -
Pimlico [Major] which line would
Muswell Hill be on then?
nights -
Island Gardens,
narwhal amendment denied.
[Major] thanks for clearing that one up... Gregory Topov - Aha! The dreaded Inverse with red uncovered! All players with red tokens are required to forfeit their Transport Card.
Tuj - Oh, sorry...
Latimer Road. I'd dozed off there for a mo...
nights - don't worry mate. in the meantime,
Knightsbridge.
Hugh Jampton - what sort of move do you call that?
It's pathetic really...you should have used the
Midland Railway's Harlesden for West Willesden and Stonebridge Park nights - [hugh] oh now that's not on. look at the rest of the page. does anyone else ridicule moves made by other people? thought not.
Brixton, inverting LV on Jubilee line via
Hetherington Corrolary.
Puckoon -
[Hugh] that's easy for you to say! I much prefer
Essex Road.
Tuj - nights] Well...
*bites tongue*Barons Court, shifting up a gear.
nights - [Tuj] none of that, thank you.
Notting Hill Gate.
Hugh Jampton - [nights] maybe I know who the other player is & this how we normally greet each other, and all this in
Colindale Puckoon - [nights]
[Hugh]'s right I known the idiot for years, we used to go the school together near
Holloway Road.
nights - I stand corrected. And slightly bent over.
Holborn.
Gregory Topov - All knights please rise.
Brighton has been played, with odd numbered wheels scoring double points.
Sir Henry - Aha -
Earls Court double points all around and a pint of fosters (pref not cocked)
Tuj - I shall
lop my way across to
Fairlop.
nights -
Rayners Lane, playing
ping.
Gregory Topov - Since the clock has just chimed, I'm really left with no alternative other than
Bank. Has anyone here ever played
Stanley Random Chess? I would think it would appeal to dedicated MC players, since the same principles are applied to chess.
Custard - I declare home at
Cannon Street and make a monumental opening move at
Monument.
Santa Claus - All northern stations are declared closed on account of snow. After enjoying a delightful
in a cafe, I move to
Midland, rolling a double and so turning both wheels.
nights - [santa] what a very festive link. you do realise, that people have had limbs removed for lesser acts of HTML excitingness...
And so to the matter at hand. I choose
Baker Street, sideways and with a cucumber.
Sir Henry - Oh no - drawn inexorably towards
Monument . . does anyone smell burning?
Tuj - Sir Henry] Yes, and it's Santa Claus. Well, he did put up a flashing hyperlink and it's been a long day...
Move? yes, OK:
Lewisham, spreading flame coloured podumes.
Tuj - Oops, that was a clumsy (accidental; br/hr) line... imagine it's not there...
Robin - Imagine
Seven Sisters instead. On second thoughts, maybe not...
Rudolph - Ahem,
, we have work to do before the 25th, and we don't have time to play around with HTML. Get back on the train! Counting
three trees and using the
return ticket, we board again at
Dollis Hill.
Dasher - Plane stupid.
Heathrow, taxiing of course, due to a strike by the underground worker's union. Baggage Handlers Amnesty proclaimed, all unclaimed luggage will be auctioned in the next turn.
Prancer - The
North Pole is an illegal move at this point of the game, due to the International Time Zone Restriction, correct?
Scalp the Impossible - Ahm,possibly. It depends on how far you are from the Greenwich Meridian, you're speed of motion, and of course, when you last had lunch with Zaphod Beeblebrox. But I'm sure you knew that already. I put a blocker on the auction, by buying the baggage at
Heathrow Terminal 5 for Forty Million Tons of Rice!
nights - [mickey] you wish.
Tottenham Court Road.
ijb - Amersham, hey, bet it's a long time since you all saw a back-pass trump manouevre!
mmm - Mahsrema - Beck's coefficient to you to!
Puckoon - If that's the way play is going...
Tricentenario on the Metro de Medellin nights - recentreing -
Charing Cross ijb - West Hampstead - being a creature of habit, i will blonk. I think you'll all find you've been shunted.
nights - woargh, I find myself inexplicably at
Walthamstow Central.
Robin - Well I shall head to
Willesden Junction for repairs.
Tuj - Relaunching my conquest at
Latimer Road, hoping to get rid of those flashers sooner rather than later.
IJB -
Baker Street ...and not of my choice! Seems I'm at the mercy of a diagonal and oblique interacting with a paraboloid.
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.