We will play standard rules on a map where the names have been replaced with random english words. (eg. Goodge Street is now Hedge). To make things easy we will use the example map on page 23 of the 1957 MC annual.
And so it begins...
all - Hmm...
Socks on the diagonal
Clamp - So has
Mornington Crescent been replaced with
Jumper, its all a bit
woolly
Gusset Login - [Clamp] You must be thinking of the 1967 annual. I'll put a grey podume on
Socks and play
Spoon.
Boolbar -
Moist - home at
Thighs and playing two
furry whisks.
Kim -
Prolific, home at
Start, believe it or not.
CdM -
A, home at
widdershins
Darren -
Therefore. No home yet, following A.
Robin -
Phlegm (main line only)
Tuj - Hmm. Shunting Robin to
Mangle, I'll lead at
Contraption, home, of course, at
Hedge.
Darren - A strile to
Calculus, opening the way onto the Simply Line. Home at
Phelgm (thanks to that Robin/Tuj episode).
Darren - (That's
Phlegm of course. That's what it does to you.)
all - I'm in a bit of spot here, I guess I'll limp to
Diary. [GL] Curse you and your podume!
Chalky - [all] Oh dear ... I'm afraid we're all spiralling now. I'll try
Laser Display Board and pray for a block.
Gusset Login - Well I don't have the LV to avoid the
Laser Display Board loop.
Lib - Breaking the look with
scissors.
Valentin -
Polyester, putting the Police Line in
Saboteur
Darren - In that case, black token on
Saboteur (get out of that) and I'll shuffle along to
Asymptotic (from the North, in case you think I'm still developing that spiral). I'm collecting a coefficient upgrade at this point, which we very rarely see in games on these sites, so that means that Circle Line moves are now cubic instead of quadratic, and the diagonals are now parabolics.
Uncle Korky -
Cheesegrater, with a helium sponge on
nipple creep.
Kim -
Borstal, increasing LV on the Police Line and inverting
snoods.
Robin - Thank you, the inverted
snoods mean I can re-enter at
Misanthrope, home at
Aardvark.
Wol -
Flange, home at
Merkin.
Wol - ... oh, and leaving my epithet on the train. Again.
Tuj - Going Boardman's to avoid being spiked on the
Piledriver Line,
Moist Display Board
JLE -
Sesquipedalianism, by contrast.
Darren - Now you're not even trying.
Antler.
Gusset Login - I'll re-double and shunt JLE to
Hedge by playing
Sky.
Chalky - ... which might over-complicate the art-house laterals in the
Thoroughly Sated Line. OK - simplifying with
Scart and declaring
*chunkiness* for the next 3 moves.
Clamp - Settling down,
Basilica
CdM -
Basilica, shunting Clamp to
Clamp
adam -
Basilica, oh dear.
Darren -
Basilica/Basilica (bibasilification)
Tuj - And the standard
Ossify denial.
Chalky - consolidating with
OK Magazine
Boolbar - [UK] That was clever to
*fondle* on top of Chalky's consolidation. -
Flange shunting Lib to
Grapefruit.
Gusset Login - Which leaves me with a clear shot on
Constipation
Boolbar - I'll play two rubbers at
Balloons.
all -
Cheesegrater raising LV by 2 3/4.
Tuj -
Leg Break, reversing.
Inkspot -
Lid off a Daffodil for a dual reverse straddle.
Boolbar - Darn, that forces me into the
Laser Display Board loop. Perhaps a Bi-Fur-Cat-Ion will help?
all -
Laser Display Board/Basilica
Valentin -
Laser Display Board/Harmonica
CdM - I'm forced to
aspirate
Darren - In that case I'll have to sub-bifurcate with
Laser Display Board/(Asymptotic/Saboteur).
Gusset Login - I think I can manage a simple loop breaking sub-bifurcation using section 35 of the Nash convention
(Trap/Balloons)/(Cheesgrater/Hedge).
Boolbar - [GL] Neat! Now I can join the right hand side on the
Kettle Line -
(Moist/Socks)/Lard
Chalky - ... and I'll swing to the left
scrotching with this reductification -
Splendid/Lard.
LV rating is now at
beast.
all - I'm not in a good place to complete the reunification, so I'll play a simple
Stampede/Asymptotic
Kim - [all] Simple, yet effective, as it allows a reunification via
Mascerate, using a
lytotes advance.
Valentin - That leaves me open to play
Rothschild's Reverse and move to
Krugerrand doubling LV on the
Gold Line
Darren - Swerving wide (thanks to excessive LV) to
Flashlight Batteries 1, 2, 3 with a blue token on
Flashlight Battery 4.
JLE - Time for a swift counterattack with
Halitosis.
Tuj - I'll straddle to
Compass North, not invoking anything.
Angus Prune - Invoking plenty by straddling
South Gherkin
Chalky - Upping the ante with
Squeamish
Tuj -
Compass South,
Spin! invoked.
LotUS -
Compass West, using Tuj's
Spin! to accelerate.
Gusset Login - Careful study of the
Spin! has allowed me to identify the status of
Quark.
Boolbar - And I shall meander aimlessly to
Compass Broken.
all - I will use this opening by slipping into
Lard.
Valentin - I'll put
all in serious danger of being
hobbled by playing
Frying Pan
CdM -
Frying Pan, shunting Valentin to
Fire
Inkspot - Aligns me nicely for
Broadband.
Tuj - Damn! Time for a quick
*fondle*!
Software - Being ever more cryptic, move to
ADSL.
all - I'm blocked in
Constipation
Chalky - Righty-ho. Time to upliven things. I shall execute a reverse shunt to
The Trocadero and initiate a
Preposition Cascade
LotUS - Rats. That forces me to
At.
penelope - reversing antique preposition flows with
Unbeknownst
penelope - oooh - a percentage of consonants almost high enough to qualify that word as Welsh!
Kim -
Rhythm, reinforcing consonant
curdle
Valentin -
Sequoia, attempting to release the vowels.
all - Darn! that's on
Circle line. I'll have to play
Move and hope to stay out of
nip
Tuj - I think
Who's Harry? neatly puts you in
nip. Whoopsy!
Darren - No more of this messing about. Let's open the board a bit with
14,384,443.23 Years, and a release of the gelatinous blob on
Aaaaaaaargh!.
Chalky - [Darren] nah - let's not.
Hector
LotUS - Hmmm, nothing for it then.
Diamond blocking
Mine.
Chalky -
splinging to
toolbox hah!
CdM - Oddly enough, I can now play
Bank.
Robin - In which case I can
steeple to
Plectrum.
Tuj - And a quick straddle to
Jet Set Willy leaves LotUS in
stilk.
LotUS - Then I shall move to
Tea which leaves me only in
silk - and that's a lot easier to get of.
JLE - Not if trumped by
Clotted Cream...
Tuj -
Lotus, beginning a
words that look like MC players cascade.
Chalky - Cascading furiously with
Seedy M [a.k.a. Si Diem] invoking anything that sounds a bit Latin-y.
LotUS - A temporary bifurcation here to garner me a grey token -
Gaol / Lea.
Inkspot - Giving up two blue tokens
Zebedee / Toolbox
Kim -
Dunks, with double
absorbtion
Tuj -
Jelly, denying LotUS's grey token.
Inkspot -
Baboon and picking up a cherry red Cerite podume.
JLE - Which, since the
Players soundalikes cascade seems to have been broken, allows me to play
Rubidium.
Valentin -
Granny Smith, declaring
fruit loop
JLE - To which, of course, the only possible answer is
Grapefruit.
penelope - Staying underground with
Carrot oblig.
LotUS - And forcing me into
Bottom double oblig.
all - Which lets me return neatly to
Constipation
Kim - How on earth did we manage to avoid a Carrot/Grapefruit/Bottom loop? That must be a first. Anyway,
Traipse depositing a leather token.
Gusset Login -
Guest with a blue token on
Suitcase. [UK] Splitter!
Tuj -
Bottom again, sorry.
Darren - I'm escaping your devious
Bottom with
Lubricant. And immediately wishing I hadn't read back what I've just typed.
Tuj -
Acre Street, and I wish I hadn't read back what Darren tyed either...
Tuj - All hail Darren, and his ability to tye things! And what a 'gignatic' talent it is too...
nnnnnnng!
Gusset Login - Still at
Guest but they seem to want rid of me.
Darren - Shunt of Gusset Login to
Overstayed. Main move to
Homer Simpson.
Boolbar -
Puddle closing all
cupboards
Chalky - which should allow me to capture
Wet Wipes and declare
fastidiousness
JLE - Erk!
Blue-tit, claiming
peanuts.
Tuj -
Security Blanket, wrestin
Peanuts in my own direction.
Darren -
Salted with green tokens on
Peanuts.
Boolbar - Moving
peanuts to
Lard -
Frying invoked.
JLE - Watch it, this is getting dangerously close to Cress, and we all know what *that* means. So, a defensive
Quasar.
all -
Saucepan, raising my LV by 0.002
Valentin -
Poll Tax inviting
freemasonry
Tuj -
Wages again, but no
peanuts.
Boolbar - Back to
Moist then. Increasing
seventeen to
cobweb.
Darren - In that case, I'm going back to
Aaaaaaaargh! and shunting you all to
14,384,443.23 Years.
Inkspot - Invoking
past tense with
slept to initiate a reverse block.
Tuj -
North Gherkin,
blocking the
Slimm Line.
Valentin -
Tolpuddle straddle to
Gherkin Gardens partially reopening the
Slimm Line (south of Constipation)
Flix - Adding
Beef & Breadbap to force all Gherkins into
Burger.
Tuj -
(Hehehe, I'd really like to see this map, I never got a '57 annual... do have rare 1913 and 1922 ones thouhg...) Nipple Creep, gherkin to
Hedge.
Flix - I fear Nipple Creep will force me to go
Moist like Boolbar.
Flix - I fear Nipple Creep will force me to go
Moist like Boolbar.
Flix -
No idea what happened there...
Gusset Login - I guess that leaves an opening to
Bush. [Tuj] I had no idea you were playing blind.
Boolbar - Vigourously
Toweling myself down.
JLE -
Match,
burning both Bush and Toweling.
Darren - A pre-emptive play to
Cress.
Tuj - Gusset Login] I saw one once, and can roughly remember the outline of it... the more moves, the more powerful I am MUAHAHA
Oh dear, excuse me!
Compass South, invoking
gherkin embago.
Boolbar -
Custom Pants (for ExDirectory)
Robin - That allows me to whizz down the blue diagonal to
Scooby-Doo.
Darren - In that case,
Homer Simpson again. I get the feeling we're not actually going anywhere.
Flix - Well, not if we carry on like that. Honestly, you're playing like an amateur. Hopefully
Marge will set us up for a Butter Reversal.
penelope - [Flix] Butter-side down, I'm afraid.
Dripping, but I warn you, it's softening rapidly.
plump - Going round the back way to
Clench
Inkspot - Avoiding any unpleasantness by going to
Bolt and closing all stable doors.
all - I think
Oats would be good here.
Tuj - Bifurcating shamelessly to
Oats / Chekhov, and wondering how many stations we've named so far, as I have no map...
Gusset Login - [Tuj] The problem is that we've spilled over into street names and I'm fairly certain "Marge" is in Reading.
Slept/Aaaaaaaargh!
Boolbar -
Lard / Wet Wipes - could this be the start of the end?
Kim -
Boatswain/puppy - let all just hope its not the end of the start!
all -
Moist/Laser Display Board - I think I've lost the map, can anyone remember what Mornington Crescent was renamed to?
LotUS -
Sven / Samantha [all] I'm sorry, I haven't a clue.
Gusset Login -
Ronnie/Barker I think we need to reunify before we end this.
Darren -
Ronnie/Corbett No need. This game can go on forever.
Tuj - Reunifying at
The Two Ronnies.
Darren - A rather self-referential move to
Code Breakers' Crescent.
all - That leaves an opening to
Porridge on a diagonal.
Audience -
*shouts, screams, generally goes wild for all*
all - I thought Porridge was Kentish Town, clearly I don't use the tube often enough. Which one
was Kentish Town?
Boolbar - [all] According to my copy of the map, it was
Dripping, easily confused with
Porridge. However it was still a valid (and worthy) winning move. Congrats!
Darren -
Exercise for the Reader
If you have a spare evening or two, why not try drawing the map we used to play this game? Fun for all the family! (I, the task-setter, would do this myself, but I can't be bothered.)
Gusset Login - [Darren] is it OK if I just copy it out of the 1957 annual? [all] Good win.
Darren - [Gusset Login] Yes, but you must post it here.
Tuj - Darren] Ye gods, I am that sad and lonely and twisted, I may just summon up my non-existent artistic talents to combine with my boundless enthusiasm to do that. Just as vengeance for someone winning while I was abroad, you understand.
This is the end of the line. There is no more.