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The Furcation Game
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Each game fork has its own rules. Additional forks may be possible if the particular game would allow it at the time. Reunifications must be legal in all affected forks.
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And yes, my Old Loo should be in bold
Bifurcating the Reverse Game into Stratford-upon-Crescent:

Act I, Scene 1. A beach in Bohemia. Enter Boleti and Azulejo

  • Boleti: Hail Azulejo! what's the news with thee?
  • Azulejo: I prithee, hearken to this mystery:
    Twice fourteen days hath pass'd with ne'er a sight
    Of ghastly phantoms from the depths of night
    That formerly presaged our country's doom
    Within a month, they said, we'd be entomb'd.
    And yet no sign nor sniff of enemies!
    So can we reinstate the Boat Race please? / [Projoy] Well, you'll have to give me a bit of time on that... Farringdon/Angel, as a stopgap measure // Victoria & Albert Museum (ghost stations wild) / [wearing my "Audience" hat] Booooooooooo! (One word)
    • Ok... let's see if I can work this out.

    ( [Offstage wailing] / Damn this bifurcation. Ruislip Manor/Tower Hill, a move which keeps me in play but costs me all but one of my silver tokens ) / ( ( Swiss Ham / Kylie's ) / Dunno. Don't watch telly.)

    Where I've used brackets to indicate furcation levels, and introduced a game of Small Earthquake... somewhere in the middle. Arrrgh...

    Boleti: Didst thou perchance speak too soon?
    Who makes that frightful caterwauling?
    Enter Graziela and three Weasels
    Graziela: 'Tis I! / Parson's Green/Green Park [Projoy] Ha bloody ha. / Act Up / New / That'll be Farce Cape, or I'm a monkey's uncle.

    Film , 5 Words, Desperately Contrived

    Fred: Oi, Eric! Which department are you doing tonight?
    Eric: I'm on greens, mate. Why?
    Fred: We're down two olfactory testers over in root veg and there's a big shipment coming in. I was hoping to get some help.
    Eric: Sorry, Fred, there's no way -- we've got two container-loads of lettuce that need sniffing, and that's before we even get onto the spinach. Can't you pass some of it on to Ernie down in pulses?
    Fred: Done that already. He's got one of his chaps working the overflow on turnips and carrots, and I think we can handle the surplus parsnips in-house, but I still need someone to take on...

    Weasel 1 : Eeeek!
    Weasel 2 : Eeeek!
    Weasel 3 : And thrice, Eeeek!
    // Hyde Park Corner/Queen's Park /// Water Water / Zealand//That's got me stumped - something to do with peas ? / There once was a man with a dog
    It turns out the following is easier than the work I'm doing at the moment...

    Furcation I : Stratford-Upon-Crescent Boleti: And why, forsooth, are you accompanied
    By these vermine, so dank and tawdry?
    Furcation II : Reverse Chalk Farm '84This should help matt out a bit: Euston (Bank Branch)/Euston (Charing Cross Branch)
    Furcation III : Boardman's CombinedSquare Oval
    Furcation IV : Small Earthquake in ChileLamb
    Furcation V : Sound CharadesAttack of the Killer Tomatoes is the only fruit/veg related film I can think of, but I don't think it's that.
    Furcation VI : LimericksWho kept a very dull log

    I almost considered making the last game Limacres for a minute.

    I hate tables, which is why I've nicked rab's. Torn between the grips of Melpomene and Thalia (nice if you can get it), I've bifurcated Game I.
    Furcation I : Stratford-Upon-Crescent Graziela: These secret, black and midnight weasels three
    Doth speed my coach, and double as my tea.
    'Tis quicker, by my troth, to get them trained,
    Far more than all my shrews, as yet untamed.
    But I, I am more shap'd for sportive tricks
    Than shuttling messages beyond the Styx.
    I prithee, vaunt my skill as ballroom dancer!
  • Boleti: Nay, tell us of our fortune, necromancer!
    • Furcation II : Oh Yes It Is!
    • Graziela: It's weasily explained. I always travel on them, it's more cost-effective.
    • Boleti: What you mean?
    • Graziela: Things run better on Weasel!
    • Azulejo: I don't wish to know that. I hear you're a medium.
    • Graziela: No, I'm a size 6 but you're too kind.
    • Boleti: [whispers] Watch out - it's a small medium at large.
    • Graziela: I can indeed.
    • Azulejo: But can you predict the future? ...Oh, that's very good.
    • Graziela: You're called Azulejo, you're 38, married and the father of two lovely children.
    • Azulejo: Hmm, not bad. I'm actually the father of 3 children.
    • Graziela: That's what you think.
    • Boleti: I went to your steaming hovel the other night. It said "Closed, owing to unforeseen circumstances." [All groan mightily]
    • Graziela: Yep, saw that one coming.
    Furcation III : Reverse Chalk Farm '84 [Projoy] I admire your attempt to reunify the entire game; as to your other question, hmm. Green Park/Park Royal, leaving it open for matt.
    Furcation IV : Boardman's Combined Waterchute
    Furcation V : Small Earthquake in Chile Attacks
    Furcation VI : Sound Charades [matt] Yes it was Farscape - knew you'd get it. As for the this: best I can get is Smeller's Scents Of Snow (maybe Sorrel?), but I know that's wrong.
    Furcation VII : Limericks The dog cocked its leg
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