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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.
Initial rulesets are Reverse Chalk Farm 1984 and Boardman's Combined.

Mornington Crescent (thanks rab!)/Chute Horse Road

Spending my last silver token on reopening the Northern Line, leaving me poised at Picadilly Circus / Burnt Bush
Well, I've sorted that out . . . Moorgate / Barbidoll
Oh dear, what a mess, hope someone can make better work of it than I have... Chorleywood/Alperton / North South Junction
I agree it's not ideal, but I have a feeling I might be in quite strong position if someone can just close this wretched bifurcation. Vauxhall/Oakwood / Victoria Beckham
[Projoy] By Belenos, you're right! North Acton/South Acton, unadventurously, announcing my imminent departure from this never-ending game... / Wapping Great Cock which gives me enough escape velocity to bifurcate into / Sound Charades... TV, 1 word
  • Felicity Bounds-Gibbing: Gracious, vicar, my husband's coming home and you've got no trousers on! Quick, you'll have to hide in the wardrobe with Lord Carfax!
  • Rev. Surplice: Mercy me, how frightful, by all that's godly... [Loud knocking at front door]
  • Lord Carfax: Thundering cannons, woman, get me out of here this minute! Ouch! Oof! bless me father for I have sinned...
  • Felicity: [straightens hair] Come in, the door's open sweetheart. [Enter Batman and Robin]
  • Batman: What do you make of it, Boy Wonder?
  • Robin: Holy chandelier, Batman, the Penguin must be hiding in this West End theatre!
  • Felicity: And you're wearing my husband's cloak as well, you paunchy icon of kitsch, you. Wherever did you get it from?
  • Batman: Ah, now I see. This is what I call my...
    • South Acton / North Acton [Projoy] Yey! // Old Loo / [MF] Is it What Not To Wear ?
    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
    *sigh*. It seems these things always include a furcation I can't do as soon as possible. This has two already...
    [Ibid] That's what strategic passing/fudging manouevres are for. I'm not really sure how to do Sound Charades and Oh, Yes It Is myself, but am willing to give it a go.
    Shame, I was hoping Ibid'd play, as I know he's got a Sound Charade ready to roll. So here's a quick... Bluffer's Guide to fudging Oh Yes It Is!:
    1. Enter [entirely new character]
    2. Exit [extraneous character who hasn't said anything]
    3. [hero] and [sidekick] do visual comedy bit that doesn't work in a completely verbal medium
    4. "Graziela, you remind me of my wife! Why, she's so ugly, her visit to the beautician's took 10 hours. And then they gave her an estimate. When she walks through the door, the mice start throwing themselves in the traps. But then my face lights up - she shoves it in the fire."
    5. "Whaddaya think of it so far?!"
    6. "I knew I should've done Today With Des & Mel instead"
    7. "I've had better audiences than this in a phone box"
    8. "I read a book about you lot the other day, it's called Bleak House"
    9. "Goodness gracious!" [points offstage]
    10. "I say, boys and girls, if [villain/ghost/zombie/alien/giant ant/bloke with sheet over head/terrorist/DEATH] shows up, you will say It's Behind You, won't you?"
    11. Curtain
    (But don't use the last one)
    To avert the impending Projoy Paradox I've had to reunify the original bifurcation, venting excess pressure into the limerick strand. Let's hope the result is stable.

    i
    Stratford    		 Graziela: Thy fortune, wretch, is plain for all to see
    If dance ye not, imperilled shall you be
    All men who walk these sands accurséd are
    Their choice: to die, or do the Cha Cha Cha!
    Azulejo: Bloody 'ell!
    Boleti: Thou ain't kidding, sunshine!
    Graziela: If you wouldst live beyond this night, then go!
    Grab thee a weasel, slow slow quick quick slow!
    ii
    Oh Yes It Is!    		 Graziela: Oh yes I did!
    Boleti: Oh no... fair enough, you win.
    Enter Prince Charming
    iii
    Fork Charm 48    		 Wembley Olympia, shunting Projoy into the Mens' 10m platform competition
    iv
    Small Earthquake    		 Britney's
    v
    Sound Charades    		 [Martha] You're right, that's not it. The old words-not-used test should help -- and remember which department Fred's in.
    vi
    Limacres
    And laid a green egg   Then sat up to beg

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