Ye gods, it seems to have spurged everyone else too. Perhaps it takes a new player (to this game at least, I don't think I've moved in it before) to get us going. Totteridge & Whetstone - can't go wrong with Allbright's.
Whoa, JLE, you've put me way off balance as I enter! No defence, oh dear! I think Prince Regent and Royal Albert may help even things - and, with a little luck, take the heat out of my declaration of home Royal Victoria.
I'll flick out a dusty podume to unify by Grumve's Second at High Barnet. It's unorthodox and raises the spin to 3.45, but I think that's mainly counteracted by Dujon's entry.
Ugh! I've been spun! Highly impressed by Dujon's entry as it happens, but I'll leave my personal life out of this! Kensal Rise with apologies for week-old podumes
Woodside Park from Kensal Green? Traditional, aren't we? Cornered me onto the Northern Line though, curses... Hendon Central and that should block any flying nidders.
Ah, the Cheriton-Ropley block. Angus] You forgot the Metropolitan intersection - you can't avoid niddlers. Ladbroke Grove picking up a very pretty Hammersmith and City pink podume.
Essex Road vertically with a slight limp, depositing puse podumes on the way. [Bob] Do you mean nidders or niddlers? I wish to clarify, because I was under the impression that niddlers are supremely easy to block, and only used in the infant version of the game. Their appearance here would only serve to cheapen our efforts.
[Angus] I believe that was Five Ways (just south of Birmingham) until somebody blocked one of them and shifted the game into the past tense ;-) Seven Sisters, but not with a Septimus Divergence.
Threading (and treading) warily. Bank, which should waste what otherwise would have been a jolly good lunch break. I hope it's not a holiday or I'm in too deep and have no chance of picking up the small amount of input that this would normally afford; still, I suppose I could always toss down the hat and sing for my supper!
Did I just usurp someone with GPS there? How do you get your characters in bold? Master of the Underground...yet defeated by the age of technology...sad, really...
Bayswater[Blue Bananas] Just type in < b > < / b > on either side of your move, only without the spaces, IE, < b >Bayswater< / b >. When you submit, it will tell you if you forgot one of them. Anybody correct me if I'm doing it the hard way!
East Finchley with Fireworks. If my claculations are correct then this makes all green tokens wild and all other tokens must be forefitted........ But If I'm worng then I fear that I'm in Knib. Hmmmmmmm.
The problem with entering a mid-game at Croxley is that a Knib can domino across the board and set you up for a good ol' fashioned spooning. Fortunately, I moved to Ongar (with permission) and am somewhat protected. However, it will cost me a podume and I am stuck here until the Knib is revoked. *Farkle*
An immensley threatening Clarence Gardens with glow in the dark podumes and a flashy platinum token to boot. As long as no-one employs the backpass trump manoeuvre, I can get to MC in three.
Can I infiltrate Fairlop into the equation, here, using a combination of Maxwell's bifurcation and an anticlockwise loop move? (By the way, how do you do bold?)
Ken simply follow this example <b>Paddington</b> = Paddington but as you know, it would unwise to play that move at this moment in the game. But while I'm here I'll pick up a couple of blue tokens, just passing through.
This looks like a good place to join in, since the Warwick Variance is acceptably low after Tuj's Double Edgware. Aldgate, and declaring Home at Bethnal Green.
Tuj] Thereby advancing JLEs power failure across the whole of the District line and putting me in Knip. However, I approve - anything to avoid a Kanskiy Lope. Stuck at Monument.
[Prune] I assume that those of us with pacemakers are still exempt from attack by the Cromwell Bypass Leap, or was that changed in the Health Act of '94?
I feel, Ms Keeper, that you got us verily into this mess, and verily should the burden lay on your shoulders to get us out again. I shall Dollis Hill once more, before I feel obliged to steal your sienna tokens
Nonsense. If you were insane you wouldn't be sane enough to know that pleading was required. Regents Park, raiding ZK's obvious Home while he's out, for one silver, one teak and one osmium token.
It is nice to play with people who know what they're doing - I've seen some amateurs on The Weakest Link, really, they just keep shouting Bank all the time. No style.
No, I think you're alright. I played Maida Vale too close to Remembrance Sunday, and all the poppies have cancelled the spooning effect. Whitehall with a wreath and Nimrod playing in the background
Advancing 3 podumes to Gospel Park, of the pewter variety (the podumes, not Gospel Park, although I did once craft a very attractive version out of aluminium for a modern art competition)
Berkley Square [sic]?? Hmmm - I think I'll pass on this one and spend some time examining the latest Underground map. PP - I hereby challenge your move!
Challenge my move? I think you'll find that it's perfectly legitimate if preceeded by two shams in a row! This was quite effectively deployed in the anniversary match of '22 whereby the player went on to win the game with a beltane twist!
As the song of the London Underground Railway Planning Sub-Committee tells us: That certain night, the night we met, There were projects abroad in the air; There were navvies digging up the roads [an early reference to the 'cut-and-cover' technique] And a station was planned for Berkeley Square.
I may be right, and I may be wrong But I'm perfectly willing to swear That those present voted by eight to three to cancel the plans for Berkeley Square.
So Chalky's challenge is perfectly valid - sorry, PP.
Thank you Wol :-) ... wonderful singing, by the way. OK PP - I don't want to come over all patronising-like but have you been playing the game called Mornington Crescent for very long?
Years actually. Of course i did come into the middle of this game and may have miscalculated the set of rules you are using. If the Stanislaus Basic rules are being used then I believe, despite Wol's eloquent and lyrical singing, that I am perfectly correct. If however, you are using the Kaminski revision of 1893, then I would be wrong, in which case I shal revise my move to Mudchute
Jolly good show. In my experience these Long Games often fly on the face of strict and rigorous adherence to one nominated ruleset. As the excitement unfolds then so does the action drift, organically, as it were, from one ruleset to the other. For instance, Kaminsski revisionists had their day back in June this year. For now, Stanislaus Basic appears to be driving this train, albeit tweaked by that Watling Street Variation which was forced through on the 11th anniversary of Black Wednesday as recently as September. Damn nearly caught me out, I can tell you! OK - now for a move. I'm still sporting an extra eyebrow, so I shall attempt to be rid of it by exploring that Quex lateral, hence a cautious Bethnal Green.
I am afraid I cannot let that superficially cautious (but in reality audacious), move go unchallenged. You know as well as I do that the Quex lateral can only be explored when Grebblings' Impulse Function is at a sine value of minus 1. Putting things right with Colindale. Tsk!
Aaaaagggggghhhhhh! If it wasn't for the signalling problems at Finchley Road station (correct at time of going to press) I could have put you in Nid, Chalky with a dashing move to Baker Street. That would have taught you a lesson for the reckless trumping you have been doing. As it is I shall have to respond with a Royal leap to Victoria
Tsk!Tsk! ZK I fear that you have missed the point and fallen into PP's simple but fiendishly cunning trap.I believe, however, that I can retrieve the situation by using the Faraday Lightning Strike. (It's an old trick but it just might work). Onward to Bethnal Green
I shall answer that with the Kaminski's Repost, raising his missing two fingers and going to Uxbridge on the diagonal. Handy as it has disabled access!
widey]welcome to the great game, however if I could just nudge yoou into putting a couple of 'tags' around your moves <b> to make them bold </b> , I must show no preference to any player but please accept these four blue tokens.
[Widey] And it would also be sort of nice if you moved to an actual station, or location. Indeterminate locations are all very well as a gimmick, but entirely confusing when used as a standard strategy, not least to the player who is playing them...
You think that can hold me? Me???!!! I shall come back with the three step, cross reversal. Brent Cross, Charing Cross and Kings Cross This will put Angus back in knid an LotUS in spoon and me free to roam where I will!
[nights] my father did buy property in the 70's, in Belgravia actually, my mother dined with Romanian dictators and Japanese warlords and I'm currently number 2 in the Hit Parade.......*bows head*.actually this is a soggy tissue of lies, really Amersham.