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There has to be one of these, doesn't there?
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Clearly, it has to be Turnpike Lane
Trying not to be caught at Blackhorse Road
You were caught, by the Angel (fish).
Leading to a rather flat "Plaice"tow
Eeling Broadway. Jellied
Bugger. That means we're stuck at Dollis Gill.
No we're not. Not if I'm right and can play Goldfish Green.
Forces me to Whiting City
Hammer(head)smith
Nicely closed... Charing Cross, rectifying spin and declaring home at Goodge Street. It's nice to flex the old Html muscles again!
Ooooh! Northwood Hills.
Pimlico declaring all puce tokens void.
Rules out an early Jansen's Shift from Pimlico then...
I think I'll play Parson's Green anyway, though it might trigger a cascade.
If it triggers anything it'll be an improvement. Things haven't exactly been moving fast... Golders Green
whats'appening? Vauxhall
There's a slight vibration on the Circle, Hey Presto! Tower Bridge.
That spurges me then. Chalfont & Latimer.
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.
JLE] Nice to see you back around. As a mark of respect, I'll resist re-spurging at Cannon Street and bi-furcate to Shoreditch / Dollis Hill.
What's been started I can't stop, don't have enough tokens to fix the situation so will just weather the storm.... Dollis hill/ Dollis Hill
Barons Court / Ongar, for two different kinds of denial - Attacking and Orthodox.
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
[AP] It's not how old they are, it's how you use them. Woodside Park!!! knobbling Tuj for 5 green tokens.
Forced to pass then, aren't I, to pay them!
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.
Arnos Grove, sideways.
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.
Pimlico (quietly).
Anything but Pimlico! I'm stranded at Alperton of all places - for 5 moves!
Four Wents. Need I say more?
[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!
My first foray into the MC5 long game sees me playing my traditional opening move by declaring home at Croxley
[Huxley] Now that's unbalanced me somewhat. I'd best retreat to Cockfosters and replot.
This is the opportunity I've been waiting for, that allows me straight into Covent Garden, closing the gap to the right with three red tokens.
[Inkspot] This isn't a game of Baker Street, you know. East Ham - since I don't have to play West.
Alperton/Alperton, highly unorthodox and could cause trouble. Enough about me, the move was quite naff too.
Great Portland Street.
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...
JLE] I hope Prof Plum is not watching this. And it's my turn again!
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!
Brondesbury Park Thankyou!
[boolbar]Didn't mean to tread on your toes there. Ongar permitted.
Very well. I controversially plump for Pimlico
Not that contraversial. Vegard was partial to it in similar situations. Fulham Broadway
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.
Alperton. Looks like knib, I'm afriad.
bzzzzzzzzzzt [Tuj] Are you allowed to go to Alperton again so soon?
[Tuj] Hang on, ignore that, I just read back! Apologies.
South Kensington
You know, I haven't done this in years, but I'm going to hop on down to Oxford Circus. What happens to my green tokens now, do I still need them?
Twas knib was it not? Better hang on to them until we have a referee's decision on that. But while there isn't one around, Russell Square
*cackles evilly*
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*
Dagenham Heathway with a triple Helsinki.
You swine!
Wapping. I love's a good wap.
Epping I've always been partial to a good epp.
Barking. So I'm told.
Pudding Mill Lane, prasmotically so.
Spindrift Avenue and no more puddings from Blue Bananas. They've gone off.
That was the yams, wasn't it?
Alperton, threatening a Grumley shift.
*farkle* threatening no-one.
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.
Down Street, using aforementioned backpass trump manoeuvre.
Bugger. Onslow Square then, and hang the expense.
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.
[html] Distinctly. Pinner superceding Ken's bifurcation with the Lombard Manoeuvre, last seen in the world cup final 1992.
AP]Quite and a manouvre made increasingly less used since the HP2000, but Plaistow should strech the envelope a bit further.
As Angus didn't declare which Paddington, I think I'd better be safe and play Edgware Road / Edgware Road.
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.
Aldgate East, declaring power failure at Whitechapel.
[Tuj] I didn't say paddington! (well I did just then, but that doesn't count) Anyhoo...Dalston Kingsland 'cos I'm feeling rebellious.
Tower Hill. Circle Line Clockwise
AP] Never mind, did no-one any harm.
Bromley-by-Bow, as a last resort to try and avoid a Kanskiy Lope.
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.
Declaring can't see the wood for the trees with a larch at Green Park.
In that case, Cyprus to counteract Boolbar's larch
Aha! Baker Street!
Dang! Bob the dog's knip is transferred to me at Covent Garden
- Freeing me to do some shopping in Brick Lane. Shoreditch and I claim the Green Podume that Riff had his eyes on.
Damn, too slow... Stepney Green to open and Oranges and Lemons loop.
Charing Cross, being the station nearest St Martins (Martin-in-the-Fields)
Bow Church praying someone has some turquoise podumes!
Hey, I needed that! [Shakes fist at BtD]
Um, Shored- no, not enough LV... King's Cr- no, that'll put me in Spoon... Periva- no... pass, dammit, pass!
St Pauls being the nearest to Old Bailey
Ah-ha! As I currently have 4.5 turquoise podumes after avoiding the Kanskiy, I can ghost to Praed Street.
Pass.
Very good Tuj, but you forgot the Cromwell Bypass Leap. I therefore collect a wealth of grey podumes at New Bond Street
Whence to Dollis Hill
[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?
[ZK] '95 actually, but otherwise acurate. Dollis Hill and damn you!
Hillis Doll, invoking a temporary Boardman's.
Indeed! Extremely temporary! Dollis Hill.
Dollis Hill Are we nearly there yet?
Not until I move extravagantly towards Dollis Hill, and I can't help feeling someone owes us a move.
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
If I could suggest anything but Dollis Hill I'd gladly help. And keep your mitts off my tokens, it took me months to earn that last one.
Dollis Hill... Maelberg Variance up 3/8ths... nearly there.
Right then, you give me no choice. Neasden it is, with one sienna token swiped from ZK for causing all the cafuffle in the first place.
I plead insanity.
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.
Fine, but on the King James principal I'm claiming the teak one back, and while I'm about it, on to Mansion House
Green Park as I'm in a genial mood. Oh, and a couple of ash tokens for me, I think.
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.
[ZK] Chuckles... Was that a move, or just a passing social snobbery?
Bank! forced
Oh alright, we'll take it as a move... Rayners Lane
Covent Garden. JLE, have you nicked my cadmium tokens too? I can't seem to lay my hands on them.
No, that was me, I was feeling sneaky, and you weren't looking... Osterley. Obvious I know, but it's late...
Hammersmith!
You swine! Erm... Maida Vale, putting at least three players in spoon.
You'll never spoon me! Er, put me in spoon, rather. Aldwych using the Old Lines principle. It is almost Remembrance Sunday, after all.
[AP] Sorry, I'm all in a quandry. Am I in spoon?
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
In that case, Barons Court, calling to mind Sandy's Bona Crescent strategem of 1966.
Oooh, that allows me to sneak in a quick Hackney Wick. Remember 1959 MCWC?
[Boolbar] Ah, if you remember it, you weren't there. I remember Adlestrop, though. Highgate, cemeteries wild.
Cemetery Lane then, in deference to the great Inigo Sanchez, Mexican champion 1923.
I play a Bounding Gambit and opt for Belsize Park, hopefully with impunity.
Not with me around. Lancaster Gate with slate podumes towards Kentish Town.
Well, avoiding Kentish Town that leaves me tagging 2 green 'uns at Hampstead.
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)
bzzzzt! Gospel Park doesn't exist!
It didn't sound right when I was typing it in. Gospel Oak, then, and you get all my sienna tokens, dang and blast you!
Oakwood and thanks for the tokens!
wafting in on an ambient westerly breeze, scattering a few crystal tokens over Zone 6 and landing neatly on the tropicana in Kew Gardens.
*OUCH*
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