This is where the plan unfolds. The two red tokens I had are therefore magnified thanks to Winski's, and I can trump on the Piccadilly line at Pimlico. HA! indeed.

[Tuj] Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's a lateral pass, I redirect you to Cockfosters.

Battersea Rise, getting me out of knip & putting Googolplex in it. Also availing myself of one of Googolplex' ochre podumes, cutting off all his lateral retreats, as well as the odd flying one, foreclosing all of the area NW3 and disqualifying anyone who attempts the Krasivy Contrivence or the Johannisthaller Device (1872 ammendment) in the next three goes.

Not that you needed telling.

I needed it! 'cause at first I thought you were talking twaddle. Let's duckwalk to Mile End for more tokens, mine's a shandy.

Mine's a Vodka and Orange. Brewhouse Walk

Belsize Park Pah! NW3! I laugh in the face of danger. Oh look a nice little shiney for my collection

Barbican, natch.

I shall have to defer to those who now better: doesn't Alfonse's Manifestation mean that Inkspot made a lateral pass? In the meantime, Convent Garden.

With a perverse glee, King George V

Bowing to pressure: King George V

More royalty in the form of Kings Cross - sans pancreas.

[GtABGfL] Nah, it just looks like a lateral pass - it was in fact an X-straddle. And a rather nifty one at that! I shall go Kingsway - three of a kind thus lets me change my home station to Barbican, and collect two silver podumes from Jenny.

[LotUS] Thanks. I've noticed that everyon'e avoiding lateral passes at the moment, making for some rather static play, but Goldhawk Road will put a stop to that!

Ah! Earl's Court.

Tuj] He may well be! But Hangar Lane could well be to my advantage here.

You are all far too crafty, but the options are running out.

Bum.

[Googolplex] Enough of your predilections. ;-) Ealing Common

I think I can straddle to Clapham Common, can I not?

[JLE] First time you've ever complained ;-)

[Tuj - yes, but I wouldn't shout about it!] Nectarine Way with a purple podume and in preparation for a Washington Gambit

AJ]Seeing as my token stack is a bit more healthy I can counter that with Scunthorpe Twist to lower the LV to Zones 1 and 2 at the same time as playing off South Acton

Banbury Cross to see [Inkspot]'s fine lady upon a white hoss...

restarting from Tooting Beck as I have missed several goes, but aim to do better this time!

[Googolplex] *BOOT* (friendly of course). And on that note, Chigwell

[JLE] Thanks, and you! Westferry with a small ice cube. I can see lateral passes on the horizon!

*swallows ice cube* Hampstead, splinge reduced.

Clapham common as I feel a womble hunt is way over due, followed by a diagonal shunt to Green Park...

Thence for continuity....Turnham Green and Dollis Hill, reversing parallels, shunting [Widey] to the extremities of the Victoria Line, Nuffielding [Tuj] and placing me in a rather good position for the shipping forecast.

[LJ] I should've seen that coming. Good ploy with the parallels, but I think that Beck's Coefficient's too high for a charge on the Northern Line, or even just a shunt to Blackfriars. Meanwhile, I *farkle* again resignedly.

escaping the victoria line by deft use of the blue and black levers (but not the red ones!)and using Webbs theory of independant transmission to loitre at Box Hill!!

Oh no, you don't - Temple!

[HB] Wrong religion, mate, wrong religion. At least at this juncture in the game. St Pauls would have served you better if you'd gotten there first.

...but Alperton even better, yes?

Only if you really *believe* in atheism, rather than just not giving a damn.

Oh ye of little faith, so many prayers left unanswered, Oval.

Then build a Monument for your piety.

Oh, and Elephant and Castle, which is named after the pub, for all those who believe that the real meaning of life will be found in booze ;-)

Oh, and according to "What's In A Name?" by Cyril M. Harris, the definitive guide to the origins of station names, the name of the Elephant and Castle (the pub) does *not*, as is popularly supposed, derive from "Infanta of Castile" after a Spanish princess, but from its original proprietors - the Cutlers' Company, whose use of the Elephant as their coat-of-arms derives from the ivory used for their craft: the first recorded appearance of the Elephant-and-Castle coat-of-arms is by the Cutlers, at the marriage in 1445 of King Henry VI to Queen Margaret, who was most certainly *not* Spanish. (One presumes that the Cutlers were at the time one of the more important of the ancient trade guilds, who would appear turned out in their best livery as part of important processions and ceremonial occasions.)

Royal Oak, continuing the licensed premises cascade.