Mornington Crescent
Can be played in Haiku Form
Let the game commence!
And so it begins...
Boolbar - Let me start this game
By playing at
Belsize ParkHome at
Edgware Road
penelope - Wise move for Boolbar
But he could be yet undone
With my
South Harrow
Chalky -
Undo Boolbar?
*grin*I'll keep it buttoned with
BankHome at
Chalk Farm [natch]
Software - Think you are clever?
What about
Dollis Hill loop?
That will spike your guns!
Boolbar - The
Dollis Hill loop
Is a cunning ploy to play
So early in game.
Raak - The strongest move
Is the move that is not made.
Pass.
Kim - Low centripetal
Force allows a
Campbell SpinSettling at
Ongar
JLE - [Raak] Why sell us short?
You're missing five syllables!
Starting at
Moor Park.
Raak - The loud silences:
Like the closed river crossings.
Tower Gateway,
fring!
Robin -
Walthamstow Central: Waiting for the moment when
Someone bifurcates.
Tuj - I'll trifurcate then!
Angel / Balham / IckenhamAnd...
home at Goodge Street.
Dunx - Reunifying
With
West Ruislip; puts me in spoon.
What a way to start.
Darren - I will start with
Bank Placing blue tokens along
The diagonal.
Tuj - Invoking
Elst's PloyI believe I can straddle
To
Fulham Broadway.
Boolbar - Not moving but yet
Pushing up the LV by
Playing a
*farkle*
Raak - The wrong sort of rain
Pulls down outer zones' LV.
Tottenham Court Road.
Inkspot - Looking for open track
North or South? No try
AmershamThat should raise back th LV.
Haiku Police, correcting Inkspot: - Looking for clear track
North or South? Try
AmershamThat should raise LV.
The rules of haiku
Are of counting syllables:
Five, seven, then five.
As the game title says, "5-7-5"...
Tuj - Capping the LV
To no more than 3.2
With
Walthamstow. Yes.
Robin -
Crossharbour & Lon...
...don Arena is quite diff..
...icult to make fit!
Boolbar - Going around but
Not quite a circle. Now is
the time for
Oval.
penelope -
Shapeshifting cascade!
Squashing poor Boolbar's Oval
With my posh
Sloane Square
Software - Never mind all that
put purple podumes on
Bankno diagonals!
Gusset Login - Now I join the game
The start is all important
But I must
*farkle*
LotUS - I too can now start
Heading south of the river
Ho! To
Clapham South.
Darren - Rebounding Software
Into
High Street KensingtonI strile to
Uxbridge.
Inkspot - Yet more hopefuls come,
Try to follow at their peril,
Knip for you;
Elm Park
Raak - Pickering northwest --
Insufficient red tokens --
Harrow-on-the-Hill.
Boolbar - I pick up my prize
Two gleaming silver podumes!
And move to
Morden
Tuj -
High Street Kensington.
A move which sets up a spike
Along DLR.
LotUS - Red token from
Bank, Power failure - Northern Line
Cuts LV in half.
LotUS -
sorryRed token from Bank,
Power failure - Northern Line
Cuts LV in half.
JLE - Looks like I have been
badly derailed at
Elm Park.
Dammit. Bugger. F***!
Uncle Korky - I cannot join, then.
That strands me at
UpminsterI'll spectate from there.
Tuj - Sucked into
the loop!
The repetitive
DollisHill we all dreaded.
Dunx - A costly side move,
Barely dodging loop entry:
Willesden Green, gently.
Dunx - <p> not <br>?
Gag me with a spoon, but my
HTML sucks.
plump - A flick of the wrist
A nudge with the right buttock
And
Cockfosters bound.
Inkspot - Long left straddle
Red token at
Colindale Tea and two biscuits
Boolbar - That puts me in
spoonSo I shall raise two fingers
And sulk at
Debden
LotUS - Avoiding knip
To
Roding Valley I'm bound.
Shiny gold podume!
Tuj - Still at
Dollis HillBah, humbug. I hate Dollis.
At least the rain's stopped.
Dunx - Trapped on Jubilee!
A lifeline for Tuj? Not now...
Swiss Cottage, revenge!
Darren - To
Latimer RoadI move, there depositing
Fifteen blue podumes.
Boolbar - No-one moves, a pause. They await with baited breath. Suddenly -
Balham!
Boolbar - (Let's try again)
No-one moves, a pause.
They await with baited breath.
Suddenly - Balham!
LotUS - Like lightning I strike
A flash from heavens to earth
Illuming
Morden.
Bif - For my first move here
I play conservatively:
Tower Hill looks safe.
penelope - To hell with safe play
I need excitement, and fast.
Walthamstow Central
Prof Plum -
Bank, For Monument I suppose. Or should that be
Monument, For Bank?
PVC - I have to visit ESSEX, and go to a valley.
Roding Valley
penelope - Let's get this moving
Heathrow 1, 2, 3 and 4 For ALL departures
Boolbar - It is 'plane' to see
That
Heathrow Terminal 4Is now the best move.
Bif - The crowd has gone wild!
(Some crowd; most of them went home).
High St. Kensington
LotUS - Amidst the shadows
I stalk towards
Marble ArchInverting the snoods.
ZK - Whilst I went gaily,
Through
Elephant and Castle,
I dropped my podumes.
JLE - If there is one thing
That I truly cannot stand
It is the haiku.
ZK - I tend to agree
But, dearest friend JLE,
It's art in MC.
Breadmaster - Don't know about you,
But I think that
Golders GreenRestores my spirit.
Bif - Podumes a-plenty,
Token stacks climb heavenward
So:
Lancaster Gate
Inkspot - I shall grab just one,
As I needed the plastic.
Now, make for
Loughton.
Tuj - Battening hatches:
Caledonian Road and...Barnsbury! So there!
Topaz - Thus I chance upon Edgware Road, Who is so wise that could have knowed?
Darren - Is Topaz playing
The same game as we all are?
Clearly
Tower Hill.
penelope - He/she is, but lines
are not his/her strongest point
Me?
Queen's Park Perfect!
LotUS - Wherefore the Rangers?
Perhaps they be lurking in
the depths of
Green Park.
Bif - To the uninformed
This move could look quite stupid.
What do they know?
Bank.
Topaz - My humblest apologies, fair grindlings My HTML should prove to be grander Should I penetrate the walls of Museum...?
Topaz - Damnation and curses, my train has gone twice its terminal velocity at Museum... I have retired from this game... the pace was simply too fast for a poor old codger such as I, trying to get from Museum.
Ham - Alas, Topaz, had you been the smartest of the game, you should have followed the bakerloo line to
Regents' Park
Hai Killer -
Up the Northern Line
The End's in sight. Here we are!
Mornington Crescent.
Tuj - Laughing at mistakes
Made by assassins. Ha-ha!
West Acton. Full stop.
LotUS - Resuming this game
With verve and alacrity -
Onward to
Leyton!
gil -
Tottenham Court Road! That's where we all aspire to,
In our wildest dreams.
Chalky - I don't have wild dreams
So I have to make do with
boring old
Chalk Farm.
Bif - Aspiration Trumped,
Gil: Glorious Ascendant
Forces
Warren Street
Tuj - Interestingly
I can now half the LV
And advance to
Bank.
Kiwi Chris - Fresh and new to game
Stand in awe of veterans
And head for
Burnt Oak
Glimoni - Knightsbridge (or maybe Latimer road??? Never)
Darren - Let's go to
Old StreetBrandishing podumes so green
And strangely tacky.
Kiwi Chris - Lacking clearer hope
Gather stray tokens, and move
To
Fulham Broadway
Boolbar - I'll play
Cutty Sark(for Maritime Greenwich) - Bang!
Hit your battleship.
Darren - That was not clever.
It clears the way to
Green Park You know what
that means.
Bif - Indeed we
do know
And must ask why you force me
To play
Dollis Hill
Tuj - And in turn, escape
Via
Ongar, threatening
MC in seven.
Robin - MC in seven?
We'll soon put a stop to that!
Kings Cross St Pancras.
Kiwi Chris - Kings Cross St Pancras?
I was going to go there
So,
Shoreditch instead
Chalky -
*whiskering* Temple.
MC now impregnable.
ner ner ne ner ner
LotUS - To shed my LV
Forces me all the way out
To
Colindale. Rats!
Bif -
Dagenham Heathway!
LotUS, Chalky, Kiwi Chris,
All now caught in
Spoon.
penelope - MC in Seven?
Just your moves, or total?
Almost there -
Archway!
Darren - You seem to ignore
The power of
Aldgate EastTo distort the map
Tuj - pen] Academic
Now at least. Limiting the
Damage:
Chiswick Park
Kiwi Chris - Oh no, caught in
spoon what oh what can I do now?
limps off to
Croxley
Darren - Kiwi Chris is blocked:
Purple tokens on
Croxley.
Main move to
Holborn.
Chalky - I've just bent my
Spoon!
That means I can progress to ...
Wait for it ...
Fairlop.
Kiwi Chris - First spoon'd and now block'd
Times are hard for Kiwi Chris
Flees now to
Blackwall
Darren -
Blackwall is no use!
Your number is almost up!
Westminster / Temple
Bif - I'm feeling unwell
Ravenscourt Park? No help there!
Oooh, OoooooYAKABOO
Robin - Needle nardle noo
Quickly moving to
Neasden (Beware of Lurgi)
Tuj - You silly twisted
Boy you. However, I play
Walthamstow Central
Kiwi Chris - Feel a bit beset
Seek refuge with the scout troop
Found in
East Finchley
Darren - East? No,
West FinchleyTo prevent Chris from using
The secret tunnel.
Kiwi Chris - West Finchley? Ha ha!
My trap is sprung with
Oakwood Darren now in
spoon
Chalky - Kiwi Chris. Spoon? Pah!
Custom House for Excel which
places you in
knip.
Kiwi Chris - Oww, Knipped in the bud
My boyish good looks ruined :)
Knips off to
Hampstead
Darren - And now play can start
With a strile to
Oval, yes!
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! No.
Bif - The fountain, lions,
Nelson's Column. This is not
Mill Hill East, is it?
Tuj - Is this
North EalingI see before me? Ah no,
Nought but
Perivale.
Kiwi Chris - Out Out damned spot!
Is there a laundromat at
Leyton, I wonder
LotUS - You'll find no dirt here
So says my new lawyer friend
In
Canary Wharf.
Simons Mith - A phantom player
Plays a hidden ghost station
Then leaves silently.
Kiwi Chris - The Phantom Player!
Out Out accursed eidolon
Flees to
Bethnal Green
Boolbar - Moves barefoot to
BankDoes not notice sharp podume
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!
Darren - Movement projected
Exceeds
Charing Cross limits
Starting global
spoon
Bif -
Global Spoon? Well now,
We'll see about that when I
Shelter at
Ongar
Kiwi Chris -
Global Spoon you say?
Stocks up on anti-spoon pills
At
Brondesbury
Chalky -
Global Spoon? My arse.
Flounce all you like, Darren, but
Leyton will triumph.
Tuj - Sliding through via
Charing Cross for two podumes
And to
Leytonstone
Simons Mith - Is this a spoon which
I see before me? The hand
le toward my hand?
Kiwi Chris - Come, let me clutch thee
I have thee not, and yet I
See thee still, at
Bank
Bif - Not me, squire! You Err.
Your bifocals need changing
For I'm in
Stanmore and have been for Lo! These many days and then some, Alone and Adrift
Darren - I notice Chalky
Has played the famous "my arse."
This means
Farringdon
Tuj - Escalating the
Violence, and invoking
Uh-oh!:
Upton Park.
Kiwi Chris - Fresh from the weekend
I check my favourite game
And move to
Archway
Simons Mith -
Stale after the pub
I check my favourite game
And then return here.
nights - After a long shift
I am pleased to see my home
MC on the screen
nights -
(and miss the point entirely)
ZK - Dropped in yonks ago...
Harrow and Wealdstone!I say, and then leave.
ZK - When I am sober
I can count my syllables
before I submit.
Chalky - Release those podumes!
[Standard mis-counting forfeit]
Now I'll play
Oval
Tuj - A shot in the dark
And a
really sinister
Podume found at
Bank.
Kiwi Chris - Taking heed of the
Sinister Podume alert
Hiding at
New Cross
Bif - Poisoned litter to
Scatter at
Wimbledon should
Bag a few Wombles
Kiwi Chris - What have the Wombles
Done to you? Moving to build
A refuge at
Bank
Bif - All those Christmas songs!
You should mind your own beeswax
Meanwhile,
Leicester Square
Kiwi Chris - But they are so cute
Didn't know they made beeswax :)
Anyway,
Uxbridge
ZK - Only heard one song.
What are the other ones then?*Hops off at
Temple*
Simons Mith - The commentator
speaking in hushed tones tells us
the endgame is near.
Commentator - Speaking in hushed tones
I tell the players that it's
A game of two halves.
Tuj - I'll have to
*f*a*r*k*l*e*While I shoot myself in the
HTML head.
Bif - Simons continues
To comment without playing
I move back to
Bank
Kim - Making a late tilt
At undeserved glory
I essay
Bond Street!
Kim - (that's "un-de-ser-ved", BTW)
Tuj - Reasserting my
Authority (podumes-wise)
One more at
Poplar.
Simons Mith - Perhaps I should
frumeBut even now I think that's
unduly forward.
nights - once again I see that
the haiku game is living
I say: "right foot
Bank"
nights -
and spontaneously forget how to count...
Kiwi Chris - Counting carefully
Moving off to
Mill Hill East Scheming a dark scheme
Simons Mith - Is everyone lulled?
I don't really need to know,
I'm just curious.
Tuj - Exploding onto
The scene and pushing onward
To
Fulham Broadway
Simons Mith - The time is now right
For me to enter the game;
Mornington Crescent.
Tuj - I call thee offside!
However, I'm not, and:
Mornington Crescent!!
Audience -
*shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Tuj*
Tuj - I did enjoy that
But all good things must come to
(dot) (dot) (dot) (dot) (dot)
This is the end of the line. There is no more.