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A Simple Game of MC
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Well, our MC-playing muscles have probably become a bit atrophied from lack of use, so how about a simple game so we can all limber up a bit? Let's see: There. I don't think I can simplify things any further than that without making a travesty of the entire game. So, let's get on with it then.
Caledonian Road & Barnesbury
I always like to start with a station beginning with 'B'.
Cyprus
Because the weather might be better.
Borough
As usual, though I'll delay delay my home declaration until I see who's going to be involved and what the effect of the restriction on pegging will be.
Bank
I feel confident.
Bow Church
Cautiously sounding things out.
Goldhawk Road
Similar caution, but undermined by a usual brash declaration of home at Goodge Street.
New Cross Gate
A little early, I know, but I couldn't miss the chance to put Knobbly in knip.
Russell Square home at Morden
Easy does it.
Holborn
Gently does it.
Aldgate East
Narge-peg.
Snaresbrook
Blast! INJ spotted what I was trying to do.
Southfields
With a Green podume as a counterweight
[Knobbly] Neat escape though.
Chalk Farm
An oblique, hah!
Sloane Square
Threatening a Bakerloo Line inversion
Pimlico
Keeping the possibility of a lateral strile open.
Earl's Court
Wow. It certainly has been a while since I had a good game of vanilla MC. Not, however, quite so long that I'm going to let nfras get away with that Pimlico.
Leicester Square
Which makes |sdLV| about 0.9114 if I have this diagram the right way up.
Putney Bridge
Protecting my Western flank, and ensuring I won't have to play an oblique if placed in spoon
I'm not sure if I can frume in the apropros box, so I'm doing it here just in case.
Chalk Farm
Doubling my delta value by following Simons Mith. Pung declared.
Canada Water
Blocking off the base identifier for zone 3: red tokens awarded for all broken vending machines.
Goodge Street
And here was I thinking that this would start off with some gentle, friendly play.
Elverson Road
With a lateral demi-strile.
Wimbledon
Overground, I'll have you know.
Finsbury Park
"Simple" doesn't necessarily imply "gentle" :) Anyway, aligning the quadrants here, except for 5, of course, which isn't open yet. Brown token on Marble Arch.
Baker Street
Brown token shifted across to Oval. Please note this implies (rule 7b) that Oval now has a brown token on it. Any players nearing Oval, therefore, should be aware that there is a brown token on Oval (rule 7c). Also, brown token on Oval.
West Ruislip
Trying to open up the suburbs; unfortunately, engineering works may be an issue.
Edgeware Road (Bakerloo)
Tapping Baker Street.
Warwick Avenue
Untapping Baker Street and forcing inversion of the Metropolitan line.
Morden
Unmounting Northern Line.
Temple
Reversing the Polarity of the Circle Line
Rotherhithe
Sorry for the late start, but I think I've spotted an opening.
Dollis Hill
That's as may be, Kim, but I've just closed it.
The Seven Suzuki Samurai
Red Face
That should of course be somewhere else
Dollis Hill
I suppose.
Wembley Central
Collecting what seems to be a sushi podume.
Dollis Hill
Obluques implying open laterals. Spoils the fun a bit doesn't it?
Dollis Hill
There's always one, isn't there? I certainly haven't got either the LV or the reverse polarity to get us out of this.
Dollis Hill
I feel like I'm in safe territory now.
Pass. I nominate Raak.
Blackwall
Tunneling, obviously. Oh, and I nominate Raak as well.
Cannon Street
Um, why is everyone looking at me? Invisible podume on Monument.
Bank
Covering Raak's podume with a radioactive token.
Covent Garden
Increasing Token weighting by 1.3
Aldgate East
Crusher's gambit, of course. Token on Tower Hill, but we won't know what colour it is until someone unblonks quadrant 2 and collapses the waveform.
Woodside Park
Just. That.
Park Royal
Thus.
Turnham Green
So.
Greenford
Quite.
West Acton
Joining late, now didn't I read somewhere that a late entrant automatically crushes any waveforms in quadrant 2?
Kentish Town
Yes. Consider yourself crushed.
Angel
Now we can have lots of good fun that is funny.
Farringdon
As illustrated.
Colindale
When does FGZstar have to take the penalty for early revocation of the Parks and Greens cascade?
Green Park
Did someone say parks and greens?
Kew Gardens
This weather perhaps indoor gardens.
Earls Court
[Softers] Streeton's Gambit, eh? Accepted. Cerise token to Elephant and Castle.
Monument
[INJ] Undeclared, so I think technically he gets away with it. Wouldn't work in a spoken word game, of course, but that's technicalities for you.
*farkles*
Seven Sisters
[Tuj] Well, 'technically', of course you're right, but there's just the faintest whiff of Ruttsborough about it. Given that, I give notice that my move is Oblique and that therefore the laterals are opened.
Russell Square
Trying to counteract the oblique with a bit of squareness.
Sloan Square
Closing the laterals.
Trafalgar Square
It's a square world.
Euston Square
Completing the square and claiming the bonus.
Leicester Square
Moving into the fifth dimension.
Dollis Hill
Not the fifth dimension, softers! That's where all the gravitons are!
Chalk Farm
Such larks.
Finchley Road & Frognal
First larks, now finches.
Oval
[INJ] Ah of course, I'd forgotten the original precedent. Although when in doubt, it was usually him who tried it on first ;)
Dollis Hill
Did someone play Dollis Hill?
Dollis Hill
[Software] Just when I thought we'd managed to avoid the loop thanks to Spangle's sacrifice. Still, I suppose you had no choice - I certainly can't escape it, not with my anti-clockwise LV.
Dollis Hill
This time round I'm jumping in with glee!
Dollis Hill
I'm sorry, but it seems Software missed some elementary physics, entered the fifth dimension (that's where all the gravitons are), and got us all caught up in a huge loop of gravity. The only way I could possibly hope to free us was to send us into a more stable loop and invert the gravitational pull. Now, how do we get out of this?
Ongar
Sacrificing 6 green podumes in the process.
Dollis Hill
Rather looks like those podumes were sacrificed for nowt. Ongar has run out of rail.
Dollis Hill
I'm sorry about this guys, I didn't mean to trap us all, but I didn't want the world to end in a black hole, either. Maybe this video will help to explain things.
Dollis Hill
Invoking "Squares Only" for the next fifteen moves.
Farkle
Putting a square token on Dollis Hill.
Bradford Foster Square
Surely this would be far enough away to escape the gravitational pull...
Woodside Park
...which for some reason is my only legal move. I'm suspicious one of you gentlefolk has laid a trap here...
The Square and Compasses at Worth Matravers
What happened there?
South Ealing
We seem to have neutralised the loop, but I have sealed off the jubilee line for the next ten moves, or we might risk creating a black hole, and that would be bad. However, I rightfully claim the anti-gravity scout badge for my efforts in defeating the graviton.
The Inn at Whitewell
Be still my beating heart
The Three Tuns
Bond Street
Kentish Town
Cranking up the game play after a month's enforced stoppage.
Laterals now open. Glory be.
Putney Bridge
Thank you, that's freed things up nicely
Epping
Canary Wharf
Collecting bonuses.
Finsbury Park
Well you said it was available at all times!
Acton Town
We apologise for the one month delay to this service.
Stratford
I'm new here (but played a bit at Orange a few years back). This is a reliable station for hitting the ground running.
Turnham Green
But only in the rush hour.
Ealing Broadway
Darn it. The trains are packed at this time of day.
Golders Green
I presume I don't need to explain why.
Mildmay Park
Why INJ?
Hounslow West
Good question.
Osterley and Spring Grove
Willesden Green
For the potential for placing cats amongst pigeons.
Greenford
Because I'd seen nights' move coming, of course.
Quex Road
Cryer's Gambit.
Waddon Marsh
Sobbers Stratagem...
Harlesden for West Willesden and Stonebridge Park
Putting the pigeons amongst the cats...
Dalston Junction
Spitting feathers.
Archway
Taking flight with seven puce tokens
Croxley Green
Hiding
Nereid Avenue
Wait...wrong country.
Upper Hutt
Why not?
Funsbary Perk
No, wait, I mean Pork. No, Berks.

Wasn't this supposed to be the simple version?

Sod it, Moanington Croissant.

I hate this game sometimes.

Fulham Broadway
Possibly missing the point.
Aldwych
Deliberately subverting the point.
Vauxhall Cross
Jumping the points.
Dollis Hill
Perpetually, it would seem.
Oval
Burning (yes, actually) all my podumes. An expense worth paying, with the game state as it is.
Mildmay Park
Nipping to the Railway Tavern for a beer...
Putney Bridge
Has anyone questioned the leisurely nature of this game? Oh. That'll be me. :)
Hyde Park Corner
With incredible transparency, which I hope will be missed in this glacial pace.
Oval
Glacial? I'll show you glacial...
Harlesden
Above the line for four, then below.
Pinner
Striling on the NE diagonal
Amersham
Shunted.
Cockfosters
Which isn't too bad.
South Kensington
Rewiring the Bakerloo line.
Swiss Cottage
Sounds like it should be made of cheese.
Temple
To throw out those pesky Wonga people.
a simple solution
A Simple Game of MC languishing, unloved and without moves, for three months deserves a simple Lurker Victory. Mornington Crescent.
Audience
shouts, screams, generally goes wild for penelope
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