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Stanmore. Well, hello. I think this counts as the first actual move on this server. I'm overwhelmed.
Victoria Like the Tux, Watty. You take this inaugural move thing seriously then?
Canada Water - controversially. (But it's my server so you play by my rules)
Aldwych I claim the first ghost for at RabMC!
Bayswater not declaring home just yet.
Right let's deflower the Thames shall we! Elephant & Castle, where I will declare home, in fact I am declaring home there. The river has been crossed! Let slip the dogs of war, etc...
Keeping it sane with Borough
Bank, home at Colindale
Chigwell I had to really. Home at Osterley
The pale blue (Victoria) theme to this site inspires a pale blue kick-off with Pimlico. Home at Brixton.
A whole new long game. Better dig in for a long stay. Bounds Green.
Clapham Common
Staying in there with Swiss Cottage
West Brompton. Home at Perivale.
Stockwell keeping calm and increasing my options.
Seven Sisters, but not (I repeat not) invoking a Septimus Divergence.
Chalk Farm [Paul Way] not even a little one?
Blackfriars forced
first farkle of the game I fear....
Quarter-strile to tum-ti-tum...let's see...ah, yes, Upminster. Fat German & Inkspot in knid, Ibid gives me two gold podumes, Paul Way receives 3 red from me (crafty old bugger!) and rab is forced into city slither and has to give me four blue podumes. Surely such friskiness cannot last!
An Earl's Court Riposte should put paid to such skittishness. Time to hand over the aubergine podumes, if you please.
Alperton [Chalky] No.
Then I must warn you, if you don't Heathrow Terminal 4 gets it.
Not if I do Hanger Lane it doesn't.
Being in city slither requires me to pass for one turn.
Barking. Sends a nasty little spike down the District, but as long as no-one is at Upminster they'll be just fine...
Camden Town - No one will ever get closer!
Dollis Hill - Kill Death, Kill Death, Kill Death!
Pleeeease no! Not while I'm in knid Dollis Hill ... I'm not a happy bunny.
Pooh. Dollis Hill
Idgibum kibuntis!* Dollis Hill ignoring the flashing green man.
*What does this mean?
Dollis Hill - this seems a bit deep - I think we may be stuck here for a little while yet ... unless ...
Neasden is worth a try.
Chalky]Good move but I fear there may be dire consequences for other players, meanwhile Bethnal Green.
Let's try Tuffnell Park.
Ah, we seem to be in a P & G cascade ... therefore I feel forced to play Parsons Green.
Wimbeldon Park maintaining Zone 3 LV and placing a blue token on Park Royal.
Kensal Green, unremarkably enough.
farkle...
Well, if you must ... Clapham Junction
Chalky]Thankfully your move was as a result of Artaud otherwise that move may have put you in knid during a P&G cascade. Stabalising with Holland Park .
I'll play a correctly spelt Tufnell Park
Green Park scoring double - and gaining a bronze podume I believe.
Elm Park and placing a blocking blue token on Upton Park.
St James' Park
St. Quintin Park and Wormwood Scrubbs
I'm forced into a double-back move which places me on top of Harrow-on-the-Hill
Willesden Green. A narrow escape there.
[growse] but Harrow-on-the-Hill is actually at the bottom of the Hill. Westminster
Ah Ha! Easy money! Parsons Green.
there's nothing more sickening than "Turnham Green", a rough sea is usually quite good for that sort of thing.
Cannons Park its quiet out here.
I think I'll invent a station Queensbury.
Pants! Gants Hill
A sublime move that forces Ibid into Quince. Hmmmmm.
By my podume, someone will pay for this indignity. Northfields.
Hmm... Southfields.
Kew Gardens to terminating the elusive P&G cascade and pick up an oak podume.
Tricky.......will womble down to Wimbledon to live things up about. And colecting a pink token en route
West Acton. Polarity is reversed. LV is doubled. Freem is raised. Consequences are 'hilarious' as they dubiously claim before bad quality sitcoms.
Time for a cuppa. Put's the Kettle and nips round to South Acton
Declaring Do you think it'll suit me? at North Acton
Declaring trumps at Stratford
Spades at Green Park
Hyde Park Corner - It's the best we can do and more than enough for the job, starting a P&G cascade.
There's a certain deja vu element to recurring nightmares Wimbeldon Park
Indeed. Onward and upward to Stepney Green, allowing use of DLR in non-shuttle manoeuvres.
No way am I being tempted onto the DLR. Parsons Green
Keeping safe with Euston Square
Introducing panic with a quick hop to Whitechapel.
*panics* err, err, Canada Water
[Boolbar] DON'T PANIC Perivale
Ambling sedately to Rayners Lane.
Victoria
Ladbroke Grove, augmenting diagonals with a 3/1 Twill Pickering.
Ouch.
*Flumuxed* Bifrucating adjacent stations St Paul's Bank capitailing on Twill but confounded by Pickering.
Looping around Pickering problem by using the Saintly prefix method. St. Oval. Twill ratio at 4/1. LV forced to minimum 3.6 on Northern line. Tea and buns served in 5 minutes. Becks squared on the diagonals. Blue token surprise!
That LV caught me out forcing a Twill Twisting on the Northern Line, looks like no alternative West Central.
Dollis Hill, I'm new here and nt playing fair
Welcome Software - to make a move in bold try putting it in dohingy HTML things. HTML stands for "His Masters Voice Language" as it was designed by Richard Branson for operating the old ZX 80 Sinclaire computer games. For example, this <b>Dollis Hill</b> when typed in will come out like this Dollis Hill. Which leaves me to make my move. Erm, Dollis Hill.
Blue touchpaper, Dollis Hill, retire.
St. Dollis Hill (see previous move). Tea/Bun ratio now at 2/1. Twill set to green. Blue token optional.
[rab] I've checked with my financial advisor, and apparently my pension stocks aren't anywhere near enough for me to take early retirement.
Invoking a reverse cycle (the 4th Finsbury option, I think) and playing St John's Wood.
...which I believe requires Ongar for complete effect.
[Lib, GIII] Horrah! Now let's sort out that annoying LV hole at Bank by shunting rab to London Bridge after playing Neasden.
[Boolbar] Thanks. Thwarted my battleplan...
Throwing a Manx Kipper in the arena, I play Cornaa.
[rab] That was the point :o)
Elephant and Castle
Okay! I play Castletown.
Almost a week and no move in the long game?!? Hoping to spice things up with Ealing Broardway.
Mill Hill Broadway
Tooting Broadway - smoking Puckoon's kipper.
Fulham Broadway oblig.
Broadway-Lafayette St.. Sorry, My LV jumped, and now I'm in New York.
Dagenham Heathway
Holloway Road
Hanger Lane
South Kensington
South Ealing [Boolbar] Kippers are smoked anyway... least-ways those from the Isle of Man...
[Puckoon] What! An Isle of Man kipper! That leaves me with no choice but to proceed directly to Finsbury Park.
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*
*hands Chalky some Intimate Cream* Hanger Lane, claiming 2 crystal tokens for a Gaveston manoeuvre.
Not if I get there first! Gavestone Crescent
Perivale, airily.
Bushey, sniggering.
West Brompton, delicately.
Boston Manor, unusually.
Benfleet, stupidly.
Thanks ZK [I hadn't spotted the palm frond]. Hmmm .. time to don this false moustache and make a move on Woodside Park [invoking facial hair].
Facial hair eh? Well, I'll play Marx and move to Highgate then.
Then I don a false beard in the hopes that I'll be asked why I'm wearing a false nose and move to Smyrk's Road
The Smolny Institute, reversing.
Eek! Um, pass, until I can think my way round that one...
I shall come in with the trimmers and play Kensington Park
Ah, good one. Now well prepared with South Kensington
Kew - I've been waiting to play that one.
Borough. I haven't.
Damnation! Cornered at Balham.
Chesham - this isn't Balham.
Amersham - nor is this, but then you knew that.
Berkley Square - And let that be a lesson to you!
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!
Bank defiantly.
Rayners Lane, impulsively.
Epping, effervescently.
Buckhurst Hill, oddly.
Barking, loudly.
Wapping predictably.
Kings Cross slyly.
Mudchute, bizarrely.
Shepherd's Bush, Dairylea.
East Finchely, spurning the Dairylea in preference of Primula.
Alperton,seeing your Primula and raising a pack of Red Cow Triangles.
Waterloo sunset over La Vache Qui Rit. [Dazed - Laughing Cow, surely?]
Alexandra Palace past the man with the Kraft singles.
Euston Square, and throwing Philadelphia into the equation.
Camembert, Camembert, Cam-den Town.
Goodge Street
Notting Hill Gate, and don't forget the crackers!
Double Gloucester Road. I think it's a bit runnier than you'll like, sir.
Going out on a cheesy limb here - Chesham cheese.
Edam Court if we're into a dairy cycle
Red Leicester Square. Cycling further.
East Ham; different sources of protein.
Well, just to throw it open, I'll use a turquoise podumeto get to Limehouse.
Is that like a pimento?
Colindale- a well known cheese from Yorkshire. P.S. I sufa from dailysex, so excuse me if I mess up
Hoho - it seems the joker has arrived. I feel it may be just the moment to flourish a trump - Elephant & Castle!
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
In keeping, a 5-point turn to Royal Oak
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
*feels a fool*
Chigwell hoping to cause some havock.....
Only if you're blond! I however am not, so the simple but cunning repost would be Lancaster Gate. Get out of that!
Bayswater. So there.
Hoping to make restitution with Barbican, and really rather think I will.
South Kenton, knipping Poisoned Pigeon.
After much deliberation, Salmon Street, avoiding a tricky zone change and invoking Rutherford's Defence.
Hmmmm time to fall back on Minskis "5th random step" and bring a BAKEWELL into play. Try that one for size!
Mmm, delicious. Bakewell - the thinking man's tart.

Great Portland Street.

[Pp] Sadly I'm not blonde. Heading towards St Paul's, but might nip across the brdge.
[Lib] I shall do it for you Zoar Street
Bank [and no playing in my beard]
Holborn, restoring some sense of normality.
Westferry removing it again.
BOSTON LODGE anyone???
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!
Goodge street where the lifts are out of order! HA!
And so to Hammersmith, where they aren't.
Goldhawk Road. Rather to easy to leave you straddled there, ZK. Go careful.
Covent Garden [my beard performs there regularly]
*on the MC equivalent of tiptoe* Bank! What is that technical term I'm looking for?
COPPICE LANE and gives you a free go!
Thanks widey. Will enhance my empire by taking Oxford Circuswhich means unless someone scuppers my plan world domination will soon be mine!
Ah well, then, here's that obliging spanner - Ruislip Gardens placing Zone 2 in spoon and power failure on the Northern Line north of Warren Street
Farringdon for your trouble
Well, just to stir up some pandemonium, Warren Street, lacking power and so spiking the SG coefficient.
Evil! I believe I can just avoid danger by hopping to Barbican. Fa la la la la, la la la la.
hmmmm a cunning move, which forces me to play a Kiev, giving me a direct diagonal into a Konstantinovka
Ha! I supercede you with a Moscow and play Tsvetnoi Bulvar
hmmmmmm I can only follow that with a simple Scotch Corner. I believe you now have the upper hand!
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...

Wien Westbahnhof, naturally.

Moving it back into the zone and trumping wildly with Pigalle
3457879
*fanning the air around Angus* returning to a kind of ironic normality with Edgware Road
And leaving it again with Barkingside.
I would like to try a sub-sonic turn about for I may go to this place of a long time and stay.
Right... You're new to this aren't you? Custom House with a silver podume to boot
I declare Golders Green putting Angus in nid
And while all that's going on, I'll quietly hum on to Tooting Bec.
I see I see, I always did like London road
White City putting Pigeon in nip
Mansion House, pulling Angus out of knid and putting Poisoned Pigeon in spoon as well.
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!
Golders Green/Willesden Green/Kensal Green forcing Pigeon to change lines at Rayners Lane
Its always an outisde move but I'll slip in a Stanmore in the hope of getting at least 1 point!
Old classic then - Hangar Lane gaining on all sides.
I think this move may become a new old classic. Reverse petticoats to straddle over Hackney Wick.
Bounds Green - am I too late to play trounce?
Sadly not. I, however, shall shorten the laterals and play Old Street
Clapham Common then becomes a good forcing move then. Avast!
Zut alors! New Cross!
You bounder! Gallions Reach - so there!
moving in a kind of zig-zag "don't step on the vortex" way, to Earls court
biding my time at Brent Cross and placing an oak podume on Moredon in preparation for my next.
a good plan. East Ham.
Devons Road with teak podume on Temple
East Finchely, just because....
aaaww... finchley. Bermondsey.
Have a care sir... Clapham Common because...
New Cross (Zut Alors!) opens a neat temporal vortex, and by pre-re-investment I now have 1550 silvery-turquoise podumes!
Camden Town - I wish I'd bought property in the 70s.
[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.
[momus] feel better for that? Loughton
Tuttlebee Lane due to the retreating furcations
Ongar a)because its a safe move and b)they have real Scorpions there!!
widey]after my last play you are so kind, a simple use of Goldensteins Lever, the way is open for a simple slip pivot to Brompton Road.
Stamford Brook, gesticulating wildly.
Ealing Common, returning the gesticulations with some of my own. "And your mother too" attached.
Mafeking Avenue bringing Rankin's Hypothesis into function.
[angus] what line's that one on? In the meantime, Stanmore, playing Mr Tickle's Special Ruling...
declaring all my genes.."taxi!! to the runway!!"..Heathrow Terminal 4..fake fingerprints in hand
[nights] It's not. Being a seasoned player, I'm sure you're aware you do not have to restrict yourself to stations. Graham Garden famously played Quex Road (and Willy Rushton went on to win from there), earning a 10 for using Q & X. I shall now play Yeoman's Row, taking one of your onyx podumes for asking obvious questions.
Lord, it's taken ages to find my way back to crescent after madeira and/or lethargicness set in. Well, as i'm here, er.....Kennington
So my Scotch Corner move was valid after all? I want my red n blue podumes back and demand a free go!!!!
Christ was the source of the Nile.. Mornington Crescent
[angus] hilarious. does that mean I can play Sandwell & Dudley?
[comus] surely you realised you were offside then? Never play a Crescent after Scotch Corner after all.....Ealing Broadway to move us past the fourth parallelogram
Perivale obviously.
well, then. Bounds Green again.
adding a little nautical flavour and moving sideways to Chatham
[LJ]I was off side indeed then , like Ike was in Turner, Mornington Crescent
...sorry, lad, but everyone knows you can't do that after Chatham!. Essex Road is a far more suitable riposte.
[Tuj] good point, well made. I'm going to invoke Mr Tickle's Special Surprise and play Walthamstow Central, Belsize Park, Blackwall and Chigwell all at the same time. I should clean up later on!
[nights] Not if I can help it, we'll halve the furbication to just a bi with West Acton and Turnham Green. Careful players, note the potential blocking moves from the south*wink*.
[Jim] Why warn us? We all spotted them of course... Green Park/White City swooping in from the north east and cornering Jim at Hammersmith.
reconstituting with Earl's Court. please retune your radios now.
[prune] fallen into the old trap eh? I cunningly had ou all looking south...now, I can swiftly counter charge with Upminster
[LJ] Had you bargained for Lambeth North, I wonder (cackles sinisterly)?
weaving madly at Canons Park.
Barking, threatening Little Jim with the Upminster Trick.
Farringdon. [LJ] Aha, so my cunning ploy worked...
Taking it right to the edge of the board (so you will need a telescope to get a good view!)and playing Cromar Beach allowing me to use the Eddison rule thus bringing Battersy Power station into play...
In which case, bifurcating with Battersea Power Station / Borough.
Crivens! We'll all be naught and washed away if I dinna stave things off wiv a bad Scottish accent and The Thames Barrier.
In that case I'll have to keep north of the river for now till the back wash dies down Island Gardens
Keeping to Tuke's Arboreal with Aspen Way
A bit off-side there Angus, but I suppose that can be permitted in the circumstances. Stockwell picking up the tangerine podume JLE so cleverly diverted our attention from with his threat of the Upminster Trick.
[Bob the dog] You really should have learned by now. My bluffs are never *single*... I assume a certain amount of intelligence on the part of my competitors, and thus knew the Upminster trick wouldn't fool you. But what was the tangerine podume a decoy for?

Here's hoping you don't find out till it's too late.Warren Street - *not* playing the bi-directional driveback I suspect you were expecting, and planning to be knocked out of trouble with... and where are you going to move from Stockwell? You're fine where you are, but every move is a disaster...

Words words words. And I was NOT off-side, not even by a little bit. Progressing, with Junkin's Defence, to Dalston Kingsland
Angel
That makes it safe for Stamford Brook but I'm running low on tokens, time to look for an opening, if I raise the LV 0.5 that should gain a bit of time.
Time to slip into Ealing Broadway and await the next move!
Thanks widey, just what I was waiting for. (Apparently) sniped by JLE's double double crossing - Holborn. For those of you who are new to the game, this effectivly puts the Central and Northern lines into doubleknip (see Broadbear & Broadbear 1975). Any takers for the Jubilee-Grey tokens I left at Stockwell?
Me! I claim them by high-tailing it to Burnt Oak, placing the DLR under curfew conditions.
Perfect. Holborn, via Green Park, shunting Bob to Bethnal Green. On a double-knipped line *with no means of interchange*... I could escape from Warren Street by the Victoria.
AP] That was uncalled for and terribly mean, that leaves me in a bit of a crisis. But if I play an underscuttled Golders Green the effect on JLE should be to send him to Angel forcing a token cascade along Northern, all I have to do is sit here and wait.
Double G's and all to play for, Picadilly circa 1937.
*elbows her way in with* North Harrow if you'll excuse my audacity, I've been at the pink lemonade again.
So, beginning from Angel, I guess I've got nowhere to go except on foot from the double-knipped Northern (and a remembrance that, okay, Inkspot has a few extra podumes, but with the double knip he's going to need them all - I'd be surprised if he actually gains anything by setting off the cascade, given what he's about to end up spending.)

So, at risk of wearing out a pair of shoes that weren't really meant for walking long distances, Great Portland Street.

Best to steer clear of that foreclosed diagonal then. An incredibly underhanded Cavendish Square, cutting off all of JLE's retreats.
So satisfying to catch JLE finally caught out. Not being mean, you must understand (curse his pro-playing hide!). Charing Cross begginning snood alignment.
Oh come on! Stop being so wet Googolplex and hit him where it hurts! Manchester Picadilly via Euston
Hmmmmm using my space-time conveter thus changing picadilly into London road circa 1928 and using the old link into Victoria for a swift halfmoon manouver!!
[Little Jim] I'm afraid of what he'll do to me!
Well I think that went rather well all things considered. That double knip was a small price to pay. But thanks to the cascade I seem to be up one red and one blue token. Standing back at Gants Hill after placing a well worn Oak Podume on Epping , with what looks to me like E R srcatched into its surface.
Oh balls. *farkle*.
It thus seems logical to play Uxbridge, particularly as there's no-one else around, and thus earning back two podumes from Angus that were confiscated a few weeks ago. But I forget - do I get to choose what type or do you, Angus?
Neasdon. For religious reasons.
[ZK] I do. You can have a yellow one and this peppermint one I found at the bottom of my coat pocket. Sorry about the fluff. Meantime I shall move to Turnham Green, leaving JLE, Little Jim and Googolplex only one possible move. Not that they needed warning.
[Angus] I assume you are using the Derwhent Game of 1950 as a precedent? Which means you would expect me to play Harrow-on-the-Hill, but if you remember, Hugh Paddick was lucky enough to have a Rainbow Token. I cash in all my tokens to gain this marvellous object, place JLE and Angus in knip and play Parson's Green, enabling me to control all lateral passes at my own discretion.
With the exception of the Minsky Lateral, as a halfmoon maneouvre has been played in the last 10 moves, of course. Therefore I can counter (and more!) with Walthamstow Central.
[Tuj] Not so, I invoke the Wrinski Convention, keeping my own control at the cost of being in spoon.
[GtABGfL] However, you must remember that Tuj has the option of using 4 red tokens to deny the Wrinski. For my own, I shall re-emerge from Clapham South by Alfonse's Manifestation.
[LotUS] Not unless he wishes to leave himself open, nor risk a snood invasion, and I'm pretty sure he only has 3 red tokens anyway.
I think its my turn..... Grange Hill, HA! that should shut you all up!
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.
Taj Mahal
[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.
Well, somewhat saddeningly forced to Mudchute.
[Tuj] And therefore, off you go to Willesden Junction. Heheh, I'm on a roll: you're next JLE! Scattering the fractals by reverse passing to Embankment on the Bakerloo Line.
[JLE] needs to get out more....Seven Sisters.
[Little Jim] needs to actually look at what's *around* him more... Walthamstow Central.
Gants Hill maintaining a northward drive with banked Notley Spin.
[JLE] needs a sense of humour;) heh, let's go Picadilly Circus for the clowns!
*splats Little Jim in the face with a custard pie* Oxford Circus. Clowns? Does anybody actually find them funny? :-)
[JLE - no - terrifying!] Circus Street. Always preferred sword swallowers myself....
[Angus Prune] No comment. Still ensconced in my powerful position, I redirect Little Jim to Northwick Park, place one teal token on my stack and move to Stepney Green.
Chalfont & Latimer, the standard riposte.
That has opened up Mansion House what a gift! I'll just reverse the flow on the Circle and the District to shunt Googolplex the Amazing Balancing Goat from Luxembourg to Upminster.
[Inkspot] You utter swine! Well that's my advantage gone. I am now very cross.
[Inkspot] That's a bit of a big shunt isn't it? "From Luxembourg to Upminster"... Blackwall.
I'm horribly confused - my Fronsky diagram and Becks calculator are giving me completely contradictory readings. Nothing for it, then but to * Farkle * until the situation has stabilised.
*whangs an egg nog at JLE* that's the spirit laddie! Chalk Farm via Rosemary Avenue and Morden. Dark, isn't it?
Chalk Farm shunting Little Jim to Amersham. [LJ] Dark enough for you?
... ... Camden Town (Bank to High Barnet Branch). Crossing points 20a & 20b very carefully... that's where the train derailed last October.
Bugger it. *F A R K L E*
Yeah, I'm left there too, again... *farkle*.
Chiz chiz [Molesworth]! Oval.[LotUS] pass'us the torch then...
Stops off at Embankment to see what the Metropolitan District Railway Company have done to my specially designed riverside...
What about the drains in Hackney?
Well, last I heard they were more concerned about the earthquakes in East Acton.
Ello 'dere. Winds light to variable. Errm... Balham gateway to the South.
Hello everybody! It's me: Blunebutton! Places lug in lug 'ole and sidles up to Eccles. Ooooh, I like 'dis game: no hit hit hitee or deading! Bermondsey incognito.
Essex Road, to avoid dedding again.
Cannon Street, firing.
Our father who art in Hendon,
Little Portland Street, Little
Tooting, toot toot.
South Harrow, touche...
West Harrow, threeche, even... how are you at mathematics?
Holloway be thy name.
Being flusterd and botherd at Kings cross.....pah, where's my sandwich?
Crusts on or off? Crusts on, it's just behind the bread bin, crusts off, not sure....oh, hang about, Morning-...arse! Neeped and tattied!
Stopping off for a scratch in flealess East Finchley.
Thy Kingston come,
Thy Wimbledon[sorry SNS]
In Erith as it is in heaven.
Give us this Bray in Maidenhead,
and forgive us our bypasses
I see others are sad enough to know The Bus Inspectors Prayer.
as we forgive them that bypass against us
lead us into Thames Ditton,
continuing the flow...
***Squorrox!*** the second line is meant to read, "Lead us NOT into Thames Ditton... damned keyboard never could spoil proper.
but deliver us from Perivale
[JLE] that line should be "but deliver us from Ealing." which is followed by
For thine is the Kingston,
the Purley and the Crawley.
For Iver and Iver, Crouch End.
Here endith the first lesson...
Running in reverse through Chatham and working may way to Neasden and getting a shinny pink and green Drogna on the way.
Are we playing "Weakest Link" variant [Herr Bratsche]?.....Shepherd's Bush, just near the Safeway
Pimlico, snadge! declared.
Shepherd's Bush, the one not near Safeway's...
Safeway's, the one near an item of shrubbery belonging to a herdsman.
Queensway.
Ongar with a quick stop for a brew and a change of pants!
Kingsway, trumping Puckoon.
Hmmm... [LotUS] I'll see your Kingsway, and raise you Kingsbury.
A foul!....Scorer, a point away from [Puckoon]. Ummm....Neasdon, but cautiously and maybe slendiferentially.
Foul denied. Point deducted instead from Little Jim for incorrect challenge. The move to Neasden, however, stands (although being misspelt) and is strategically sound, and forces me to Colliers Wood.
Re-entering the arena with a 'safe' Victoria.
That forces a Boardmans round for the next six (at least) - Neas Up.
Bowditch, straddling.
Shorechurch, leaping... and why not?
[puckoon] Because of the pond there maybe? Appears you may have taken a dive there my friend....Mortlake for the brewery, and to move [Herr Bratsche] off centre.
A quick trip home, leaving from Heathrow Terminal 1.
A quick reversing manouver via Kings Cross picking up one aquamarine podume on the way....
Paying a veridian token for a quick stop at Temple.
[Little Jim, re. Puckoon] He's fallen in the water!!

Knightsbridge...

Clapham Common / Finchley Road, for the hell of it.
Bakerloo and stopping for tea (Assam) and biccies...parp!!
A holding measure Dollis Hill.
Absolute Elsewhere to Putney Bridge in a single bound.
Highbury, obviously, though sadly.
Recentring on Oxford Circus.
Slightly off centre at Kennington
why does the scrabble server keep breaking down. ihave withdrawal symptoms
Singing sea shanties and being all nautical whilst pausing at Cutty Sark
This is very hard work ... Ruislip Gardens
Crossharbour & London Arena. Safe.
bank
Homerton.
Arkansas. For obvious reasons.
Finsbury Park, with fond memories of seeing the Grateful Dead at the Rainbow.
[Little Jim] There not that obvious. Oh errm Mill Hill Park and be damned.
Moorgate and watch those damn buffers....
Ongar and a quick slip into reverse!
Alperton and sending an LV spike down the Picadilly.
Wrong way, I'm afraid. Sending it *up* the Piccadilly would have made more sense, but as things stand, the very first person your spike hits will be your own good self after it passes around the Heathrow loop.

Of course, this could have been your intention, but it seems unlikely from where I'm sitting. Meanwhile, Eastcote.

Boston Manor, dissipating that spike.
Millwall Junction
Ipswich (yehyehyeh!)
Pall Mall neatly spiking [JLE]! I know now why [LotUS] went that way...
I think I do too. Goodman's Manouvre places me (oddly) in Battersea Rise.
I have but one word for you... Greenwich Park
Err... [YOGF] that's two words... My response is Welsh Harp.
Not a common move, but Preston Road and be damned I say.
Walthamstow Central
Kew Gardens
Hatton Cross (and Richmond furious :))
Belsize Park, sideways. [ZK] HA!
Archway. Not too much sauce
[JLE] Isn't it nice when you can get other people to do your work for you ;) [LJ] Thank you very much.

Now, careful use of the Holtz-Friedel Platform Twist allows me to play a rather powerful Angel. That'll be two silver podumes or four purple tokens from everyone please.

[LotUS] Ah. So I'm not the only person who bears grudges across servers. Pray you never face me in the Lock Cup ;-) In the meantime, one silver and two purples passed over since you seem to be assuming equivalence, and I shall start plotting my revenge in *this* game following my retreat to Uxbridge.
[JLE] is that Metropolitan, Belmont Road, High Street or Vine Street?
Twyford Abbey Halt
Using Sir Albert Nodworths second rule of "low pressure steam condensing" I'll play Cutty Sark and await the arrival of my TEA!
[Ye olde gong farmer] Yes.
Using Pete Watermans defunct "Manx Rule" Union Mills
[widey] 'Fraid you'll be waiting a long time, with this blocking move on Custom House.
[JLE] I can quite imagine that circumstances may contrive themselves to bring about that state of events. I look forward to such a battle with anticipation. I have but you (and other MC luminaries, of course) to thank for my education here.
Ditto
I'll try Walthamstow Central,although I've never heard of any other kind of Walthamstow.
Oh Bugger.........moves back ten paces...........
Has no one read Fanshawe's third? Or Teddy Pendergast's second? Well, Tooting Beck and shame one you! Shame!
Wimbledon. Fifteen-love.
Arriving late, but still well before last orders, I'll play Goodge Street.
Three blue podumes to me, as that's my home, considering Flernson's Amendment is in force after my previous farkle. I'll leave them at the Bank.
Blackfriars, gesticulating wildly.
Wonders if he should move from Shepherd's Bush yet. Decides not to.
Tottenham Court Road, getting out the way of the spike, and adding a vertical block on Bank. Wall yourself away in Custom House all you like, LotUS: keep those blocks building higher and the chances are you'll find yourself on the wrong side of them...
Damn, another missed turn...............has anyone got volume 12 of the rule book, mines missing!
[widey] I have volume 6's, will they do?
South Kentish Town, to you all!
Oh farkle that should have been I have two volume 6's.
West Ham [JLE] You forget about my ruby red podume stack that's pulsing quietly away in a Secret LocationTM. Declaring token boon for all players EXCEPT JLE and Ye olde gong farmer - nothing personal, just that you two are out of position to take advantage.
I'd just bought a nice new token at Hammersmith but ta for the offer LotUS....I might just throw in Krapy Rubsnif for the sheer frivolity of the moment!
I've just run into a bloke called "Cyril" at Lavo. Any ideas?
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Following that slight detour through Hackney (where else would you get such *shocking* behaviour?) South Quay DLR
Someone's left their radio on, static interference... though i think what Boolbar said could've been for the Lies game? Deptford Bridge.
aha found volume 12 and invoking Blechfords quantum diversion rule (part 2b).........Tooting Beck
Back after a shocking absence! And what the hell was all that highly intellectual conversation above about? Anyway, making allowances for scurile rogues - White City
No, never White City, not White City, please for the love of David Bellamy not White City!...it can only lead to Kennington....I can feel the tube map wincing...
Blackfriars. [LotUS] Nothing personal intended, I'm sure, and none taken. Purely a matter of circumstance. So, a relatively benign side-straddle here, but a sound defensive block to counter any attempted drivebacks or pincer movements.
Fishtailing to Gunnersbuty - pegging Kew Gardens.
Blimey, what have I wondered into here? White City.
Fenchurch and a quick chat with the ghost of Derek Guyler.....
Finchley Road and Frognal, because I can.
Tottenham Hale for reasons that will become obvious.
Blindingly. Colindale, as I feel it is feeling underused
apropos of nothing ....Russell Square.
Just because I wanted to be the posting person on every game in MC5 this evening.
Aren't you the lucky lot? Non-sequiteurs rule OK.
Matrimony Place because I'm celebrating!
Ickenham. [Angus Prune] Congrats!
After a shockingly long absence, I come in with a move very close to my heart; Bank. Please note the subtle double loop with reverse.
Kew Gardens, with noted lack of subtlety.
The unerlying transmigrated mainline you left open would be perfect for...Kentish Town
Snaresbrook - canceling out previous imposter move.
Kew Gardens, playing a driveback on Tuj, and shunting him firmly into the buffers at Richmond and watching him bounce back past me to Willesden Junction via the North London British Rail line. [Tuj] As LotUS will no doubt enlighten you, I bear cross-server grudges ;-)
Well, funnily enough, thanks to that NLBR detour I can get to Essex Road and quang you. Don't worry.
[Tuj] Yes, I still bear the dizziness from the cross-server loop that JLE shoved me into. And all because of one innocuous comment. I dunno, the quality of MCers today...

Anyway, Shadwell blonking Poisoned Pigeon.

[LotUS] I seem to recall the esteemed JLe and myself having a bit of a coming together back at !York way back when (unless my memory fails me)...
Still, why not bring some competitiveness and enthusiasm into it? Bearing that in mind, I'll *farkle*
Adding craftiness to the bargain with Lizard Street. Although I think I've blonked myself...
i just peed my underwear hows that for being cool yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I'd just like to say that edna is nothing to do with me, and I am still perfectly continent. Thank you.
Managing Director I am fucking serious guys, I love to suck off goats, particularly Welsh ones. English ones I just tease.
Laugh you may
But I fucking love it
I can't believe it, they ask me to fax it over and I've faxed it twice already, and then they got the cheek to tell me that the prices are wrong.....now, hang on a minute, no disrespects but, what do they know about cottage doors?...eh?
E=MC squared
Time to shut down the lifts to stations on the Circle, and move safely to Croxley.
Interesting. Oxford Circus (Victoria Line only) - trapped underground for the time being.
Tottenham Court Road from the south. Underground naturally but tunnelling past [LotUS]
Shall go with Gram's Conjunction and slip through the shadows to Marble Arch
I'll play the Schizoid Tangent with... Highgate, which became Archway (Highate), then Highgate (Archway) to end up as Archway...
And, I note, implicitly invoking the Piccadilly Ruling. Just as well I'm not trying to shunt from Ealing Broadway or we could have another Moon Over Morden incident. As things stand, Essex Road, de-quanging.
Simplicity can be beautiful - Highbury & Islington. Now just look at what has happened.
It's... all... opened up. That's quite staggering. Never in my years have I seen such a wonderful reduction as that. All players are back in ground state, the diagonals are open, all barriers are up, power is back on...

So I might as well take advantage and set up anew at Great Portland Street.

Hold on Lotus, I think Boolbar is onto something and I'm just a tadge bit concerned, are you on the Circle or Hammersmith & City? I won't mention District. I thought we had agreed not to mention the "Moredon incident" , but the damage has been done now. As you know I'm not one to point fingers, but, if JLE could just delay the backwash from the de-quanging for a couple of turns. Stroking on a bounce at Gunnersbury
[Inkspot] In fact he's on the Metropolitan, since the District doesn't serve GPS. The logical ramifications of this should be obvious to you. Backwashes be damned, Swiss Cottage, with a semi-inversion.
Hmm. So, am I presuming that, from the Metropolitan I can make it to Edgware Road? That leaves all the diagonals clear!
I'll see your ER and raise you GR or Gloucester Road.
Holland Park staying clear JLE and the diagonals, he is up to something but not sure what, and perhaps in league with Tuj. Or am I just being paranoid?
I'm certainly not in league with Tuj. On the other hand, when am I *not* up to something? MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHHH!!!

Sorry, just had to get that evil laugh out of my system, it wasn't because any plan of mine has come to fruitition.

Yet.

Edgware, driving Tuj off-Road.

JLE] That was very naive of Inkspot, wasn't it? Mind you, I can snatch a podume by leaping off-road over to Bounds Green. Funny that.
[Tuj] Ever heard of the "Poisoned Podume Variation" of the Cripplehead Lateral Attack? If not, I believe you're about to...
[JLE] Nasty! Still it leaves me clear to sweep up a few tokens on the Central Line - Woodford with token extension rule through to Epping.
At last, someone with their head screwed on the right way round, and Boolbar straight away sees something in JLE's play. Very mysterious. I need to dig out my Fronskey Diagram again. Attack being the best form of defense Amersham.
JLE] True, I have now. But I believe that when Inkspot dredges up his diagram it will show the optional spike currently in play which delays the PPV of the CLA until 99 years have passed or all players have died, whichever comes first. And before I start to feel smug, I think I'll be at Dollis Hill for a long time anyway...
Avoiding all of these shenanigans at Shadwell.
At your peril LotUS. I have my rather well worn diagram now but no spike! Has Tuj hidden it in one of the folds? Very cunning you old fox. Moving to Bermondsey increasing my podume defences by factor of 0.01.
Inkers! I fear I am unmasked! Hiding my whiskers and sniffing the chicken coup at Leicester Square.
Well, I'm going to enter safely with a Plinge defensive at Chalfont & Latimer. Oh, and I believe that'll have some interesting repurcussions for those on the Circle line...
*wonders why all the green tokens on the Circle Line have disappeared*
*notices that Tuj is suddenly going very green indeed*
*laughs evilly*

Yes, where do you think I've been diverting them to. A severe case of Unwanted Token Loading, methinks - let's see how he gets rid of *that* lot. I'll carry on laughing from a safe distance, namely Loughton.

I can see an oppurtunity here... I invest my podumes in a number of suspect packages which I strew all over the Northern Line, and create an escape for Tuj with Alperton.
Googolplex] I owe you one, very muchly indeed. A relieved Pimlico, where I build a statue in honour of Luxembourg.
I have been following this game since the beginning and, after long and careful consideration (and deep regrets that I did not play after the obvious mistake at move 2795), it would seem that you have finally left the right flank open. Barons Court.
Well in regulation play it would be Mornington Crescent and home for dinner! But as it is a long game, I shall have to be content with a half-strile to Roding Valley.
London Road because I'm lost and living in a time warp and haven't played for a week or too..........boo hoo
I have a question! If you are placed in knid do you have to wear the green waders or the yellow calf cut wellies?
A predominant *farkle*, adjourning.
[widey] Personal preference depending on where you went into knid. You don't have to wear anything but it might hinder an escaping move through Westminster or Embankment if you don't.

I shall saunter along to Camden Town, adjourning to the World's End.

[Tuj] I didn't want one in that colour...

That farkle does allow me to play a rather sneaky Ruislip Gardens/Angel however.

[widey] the only rule re-footware is that it must cover the whole foot... which leaves me with a move to St James' Park nipping to the Buckingham Arms for a dose of Waggle Dance.
since this is the first time I've ventured in 'ere, better play it safe... salsa to Shoreditch where the choice of shoes is endless (matching handbags available for many styles)
I am new to this game, although having observed for some months and researched the rules in some detail, may I be so bold as to assume that my loafers will enable me to skip nimbly to Edgeware Road as an opening move?
Or even Edgeware Road (steep learning curve)
Having been out of it for a while, and seeing an easy opening, I trump you with a pair of circuses, Picadilly Circus and Oxford Circus Of course this does rather narrow the options available to everybody, but does open up some rather interesting loops!
A little unusual I know but what the hell - Hillesden Junction! (Reverse Zarkofsky Side Step)
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However, your move was pretty damn hot for a novice. I am now in knip and will have to farkle.
Having not played for over a fortnight, I am allowed to use Pegg's Convention and get to Monument, with a purple podume on Bank.
I can only think of playing Camden Town which pretty much means I won't be winning. Not even sure why I bothered entering the fray...
A quick reverse and slip via Euston and envoking Shmidts 3rd rule of Teleportation....I await my fate!
But I'm in no position to take advantage. So it'll have to be Euston Square on foot.
Westferry, which, if I'm reading my Perigar Table accurately, takes widey to... Northmapton!? Hang on, that can't be right...
Eeeeegods!!! Now I'm in a bit of a pickle, going nowhere on the avoiding loop at Northmapton not to be confused with Northampton I will bide my time.................twiddle, sigh,***
After such a break in the game play, a bullish Elephant and Castle.
Followed by an elephantish Bull & Bush.
Keeping the ampersand employed - Chalfont & Latimer
Finchley Road & Frognal, almost constructing a cascade, but settling for picking up a puce podume instead.
As a complete beginner, I find all these ampersands a bit intimidating. So with due deference to my more experienced elders of MC I will hie me to the relative safety of Old Street
Tee hee. Sneaking into Barbican.
I think I'm getting off the underground network just in case. Alderley Edge...
LotUS's proximity at Barbican is making me a little nervous, threatening as it does to unsettle any semblance of balance in my early game. So I will move on with alacrity and plumes held high, to Blackfriars - hope this isn't too much of a newbie move..
[Kiwi Chris] newbies are always welcome, you will find me fair, kind, conciderate to other players and always generous. However there is some unfinished business! Ruislip Gardens and introducing an LV spike on the Jubilee westbound.
Egads! How did you do that? Retires in disarray to Seven Sisters to reconsider.
Just as well I *did* get out of the way. Long Buckby, still out of town.
*farkle*, demurely, watching the melee.
Springing from Barbican to Arsenal and wading into the melee, sabre up on high.
Seeing new opportunities arise - Leicester Square
Amazing, I can semi-straddle to Putney Bridge, and initiate a cross-server blot!. I have no idea where you can go from there...
Well there's nothing for it I'll have to play Church End, Finchley.
Well that does cut down the options somewhat ... the only place I can reasonably go without shedding too much LV now is St Pauls... so that's where I go
Bank
Such a long pause, a gathering of breath before a huge plunge perhaps? Unnerved by the long silence, I scuttle to Southgate
Well... I can but move Junction Road for Tufnell Park, via Junction Road Junction.
*farkle*, established since 1985.
Oooh nasty... Well I think that laves me with a quick visit to Broad St, for Petticoat Lane Market (Which isn't in Petticoat Lane).
Right then, feeling a little continental (but she doesn't mind, really), it's Holland Park for me :)
Which forces me to Stratford.
Using the Butter Warble precedent I shall stride manfully into Ealing Broadway
I don't like the look of the Deschapelles Oscillation caused by that last move. Consulting my Federov Tables suggests that the best way to return some balance to the game is to march boldly to Blackwall and place a mauve podume into play. This I now do.
hmmm... Looks like a quick colour (color for those on the wrong side of the Atlantic) round Whitechapel
Invoking a colour cascade to get the necessary momentum to strile to Silvertown, doubling my podume stack at New Cross Gate.
And now for a Double colour move Golders Green.
Mearly a crossroads, in the middle of fields, in my day.
Moving carefully, so as not to disturb newly re-established balance ... tip toe cautiously to Edgeware Road
At last the W&C delivers me to the correctly spelt Edgware Road, Circle Line.
Alas, this edging about has bunched up so finely that according to my Dominant Lane Axis Graphs, I could unravel the entire structure and enter the game with a single Reverse Archipelago Pin straight across the third bilateral to Mile End.
Westminster, but I seem to have dropped the legume counter somewhere.
Gadzooks! Surely this doesn't leave me with a fiendish Dollis Hill?
Sucked in.... Dollis Hill.
Fidgetting madly at Dollis Hill.
oh for the love of God no! Dollis Hill!
You know, I think I saw this coming ... doesn't help me avoid it though. Sighing now, at Dollis Hill
Sorry I'll have to pass as my daughter's "Dolly's Ill".
still hopelessly mired in Dollis Hill. Sniff.
Guess Where. Again.
I'll spend 4,186 purple podumes to break out of this D****s H**l loop, and play Temple
Podumes well spent methinks ... move with alacrity to Hackney Central
Taking an artistic move to the North of Hockney Central aka Blackfriars
nice and elaborate. I counter with Sudbury Hill.
Announcing Ongar
...and introducing Bermondsey, reversing.
Stepping in through Lancester Gate.
ah. OK then, changes things a little. *thinks* Cannon Street.
Getting fired up - Monument
Swooping magnificently upon Northfields
Shuffling schemingly to Seven Sisters.
stuck at Euston for the last 9 weeks..........arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
BANK!
Since [widey] has Euston stuffed, I'll travel to Birmingham (Moor St) via Marylebone.
Having wed the french medial condyle of the humerus we move swiftly to a reception at Highgate to be reunited with distant relatives
Nipping up to the High Level station, I wait for a train to Alexandra Palace
Breaking into this throng of Knights of the Realm with Knightsbridge.
Taking a leaf from Sir Joe - Mudcute (sorry!)
.... er should read MUDCHUTE . . damned war wound
Sidling back in to Stockwell.
Holborn, raising overall LV by five points.
Ahem - Morningto . . . . hang on, is Haskin's Tally invoked? If so I'd better change to Victoria (handy for New Scotland Yard.
I would salute that move, except it's not very military, so I'll go to St. James' Park for the guards barracks.
King William St
Barons Court
Queensbury
Tottenham Court Road
S'easy Arsenal
Descending upon Great Portland Street with my ravening hordes following along behind me...
Waiting at Pontoon Dock for the railway to come
you might be waiting a while. New Cross, chav declared, and shunting ZK (wherever she is) to zone four.
Vauxhall [nights] sorry but you can't declare chav unless you can achieve a diagonal four vector leap - which isn't possible from Pontoon Dock, unless I am mistaken! Perhaps the new-ness of the station confused you?
Oxford Circus, without lions. [Sir H] you might be right. on the other hand, I might just be being an idiot. it's your call. n.
Denying chav at Knightsbridge.
Come on people what's poor old Chav done now?
Muswell Hill.
Roding Valley - natural counter I believe.
Pimlico [Major] which line would Muswell Hill be on then?
It's on the line between Highgate High Level & Alexandra Palace the other station being Cranley Gardens.
Island Gardens, narwhal amendment denied. [Major] thanks for clearing that one up...
Belsize Park
Aha! The dreaded Inverse with red uncovered! All players with red tokens are required to forfeit their Transport Card.
Oh, sorry... Latimer Road. I'd dozed off there for a mo...
don't worry mate. in the meantime, Knightsbridge.
what sort of move do you call that?
It's pathetic really...you should have used the Midland Railway's Harlesden for West Willesden and Stonebridge Park
[hugh] oh now that's not on. look at the rest of the page. does anyone else ridicule moves made by other people? thought not.

Brixton, inverting LV on Jubilee line via Hetherington Corrolary.
[Hugh] that's easy for you to say! I much prefer Essex Road.
nights] Well... *bites tongue*
Barons Court, shifting up a gear.
[Tuj] none of that, thank you.

Notting Hill Gate.
I say - Arnos Grove!
[nights] maybe I know who the other player is & this how we normally greet each other, and all this in Colindale
[nights] [Hugh]'s right I known the idiot for years, we used to go the school together near Holloway Road.
I stand corrected. And slightly bent over. Holborn.
All knights please rise. Brighton has been played, with odd numbered wheels scoring double points.
Aha - Earls Court double points all around and a pint of fosters (pref not cocked)
I shall lop my way across to Fairlop.
Rayners Lane, playing ping.
Since the clock has just chimed, I'm really left with no alternative other than Bank. Has anyone here ever played Stanley Random Chess? I would think it would appeal to dedicated MC players, since the same principles are applied to chess.
I declare home at Cannon Street and make a monumental opening move at Monument.
All northern stations are declared closed on account of snow. After enjoying a delightful Exhibition Game in a cafe, I move to Midland, rolling a double and so turning both wheels.
[santa] what a very festive link. you do realise, that people have had limbs removed for lesser acts of HTML excitingness...

And so to the matter at hand. I choose Baker Street, sideways and with a cucumber.
Oh no - drawn inexorably towards Monument . . does anyone smell burning?
Sir Henry] Yes, and it's Santa Claus. Well, he did put up a flashing hyperlink and it's been a long day...
Move? yes, OK: Lewisham, spreading flame coloured podumes.
Oops, that was a clumsy (accidental; br/hr) line... imagine it's not there...
Imagine Seven Sisters instead. On second thoughts, maybe not...
Covent Garden, declaring Carrot.
Ahem, Santa, we have work to do before the 25th, and we don't have time to play around with HTML. Get back on the train! Counting three trees and using the return ticket, we board again at Dollis Hill.
Plane stupid. Heathrow, taxiing of course, due to a strike by the underground worker's union. Baggage Handlers Amnesty proclaimed, all unclaimed luggage will be auctioned in the next turn.
The North Pole is an illegal move at this point of the game, due to the International Time Zone Restriction, correct?
Ahm,possibly. It depends on how far you are from the Greenwich Meridian, you're speed of motion, and of course, when you last had lunch with Zaphod Beeblebrox. But I'm sure you knew that already. I put a blocker on the auction, by buying the baggage at Heathrow Terminal 5 for Forty Million Tons of Rice!
Google - yay...I win!
[mickey] you wish. Tottenham Court Road.
Amersham, hey, bet it's a long time since you all saw a back-pass trump manouevre!
Mahsrema - Beck's coefficient to you to!
If that's the way play is going... Tricentenario on the Metro de Medellin
recentreing - Charing Cross
West Hampstead - being a creature of habit, i will blonk. I think you'll all find you've been shunted.
woargh, I find myself inexplicably at Walthamstow Central.
Well I shall head to Willesden Junction for repairs.
Relaunching my conquest at Latimer Road, hoping to get rid of those flashers sooner rather than later.
Baker Street ...and not of my choice! Seems I'm at the mercy of a diagonal and oblique interacting with a paraboloid.
IJB, that will be flux drift-through. Without wishing to help you too much, try a traverse to a parallel line. I'm dropping into Morden with a Crossmeads Spiral.
Redbridge, with snoods set to 'preheat'.
Ooh, preheated snoods. That'll be a bit painful if I inadvertantly straddle to Perivale.

Ouch!
Ouch! More than a little unmitigated shunting around here... I'll shelter at Morden for a bit.
Breaking free to Mile End with a Henderson Expansion.
Getting as far away from Morden as I can with a swift move to Verney Junction
I will defy what appears to be a developing problem with time zones and quadrant equations and escape to Ruislip Gardens
Oh, the pull of suburbia! A Huguenot's Gamble I presume Mr. D. Go further, visit the Shires. Junkin's Progression. Chesham beckons.
Hope you didn't part with too many podumes there. You stand the risk of tangential momentum follow-through which could see you unintentionally exit the game. Me, I'm urban, and some say urbane. Bank
Bank!
Canada Water!
Knip! Knip! Knip! Harrow-on-the-Hill.
knip yourself. Redbridge.
*farkle*
*farkle*
*forkle*
"There's no place like home. There's no place like home." Look Toto, we're back in Kensal Green.
New far-flung player starting at Saunakallio with extra sanding option to counteract the wrong kind of snowflakes on the line
stehvelo] Far-flung mentally or physically? Or both? Anyway, welcome aboard.
In response to your move, I'll straddle maniacally to Korppaanmaki.
Kiitos! Saunakallio is my local station from which I avoid tangential momentum by trundling south with my personalized quadrant equations to Tikkurila. I've a plane to catch. Korppaanmäki has never been straddled before by anyone, let alone maniacally, according to the 2005 MC Intergalactic Compendium. Congratulations!
stehvelo] Probably only managed it because I couldn't do the umlaut. Anyway, I should be able to bring us back to this realm with a quick Alperton / Amersham stabiliser.
Massive accrued spin and residual momentum still available even after queuing to exchange eurotokens for the local variety at Heathrow Central.
Walthamstow Central I think. careful now.
Perivale. I think.
Perivale station is great. A good view of the former Hoover factory, that 1930s art deco factory of the future. Currently occupied by a supermarket, apparently. Picking up 5 culture tokens and using residual momentum ("Maa-innnd tha FLAAAAN-dge!"), I swoop tubularly to Piccadilly Circus for the lights.
Careful stehvelo, they are setting a trap. That's the last advice I'll provide. Knerdling to Chalfont and Latimer.
I'd better move away from Chalfont & Latimer then as I've stood there for ages. Morden, *token flipping* ahoy!
Frisbeeing a culture token to IJB for preknerdled advice, gratefully acknowledged, I emulate the Hopkins Progression and digress to Covent Garden. For the mimes, natch. Ooh b*gger! 'Oo stole me walle'?
Leaves me free to move ellipsoidally to Oxford Circus for the Dreaming Spires and clown costumes.
Theydon Bois again, sorry.
Ah! The Hopkins' Flange (note the apostrophe - she came up with it not only after the Progression but also her unfortunate but amazing accident) takes me to... let's see, my chart says Euston Square.
Declaring Shenanigans at Burnt Oak.
*cough* Oval!
*russell* Square!
Tuj, you have a chart? *Hendon* Central!
Whisperer] *cough* No. FaRkLe, and here's 30 silver podumes for you.
hey why don't I get handouts? Lewisham.
With the Periwinkle pejorative as my guide...Chalk Farm
inevitably leading me to *PeriVale.
Ah ha! Invoking the Sixty-Fifth Perorgative I can thus use the Green/Green Lateral loop moving to Wood Green and jumping with the double twang bonus to Cockfosters.
Ah ha! Invoking the Sixty-Fifth Perorgative I can thus use the Green/Green Lateral loop moving to Wood Green and jumping with the double twang bonus to Cockfosters.
BZZZZZT! Repetition! But Rayners Lane will do me whether that last move was valid or not.
Euston while we're waiting to find out.
Caledonian Road seems like a good option from here. Now, if I can just avoid creating a vortex on the way through Holborn...
Dropping Line Velocity to 1.5 from 15 with the intention of causing board rotation as a result of kick-back inertia. This should take me off on a diagonal and shift me to the adjoining paraboloid, hopefully leaving me resting at Harrow on the Hill with the rest of you in confusion.
Not only in confusion but also in spoon. I shall retreat to Morden and await developments.
CHalfont & Latimer, waiting.
Have just been shunted into a siding at West Harrow. Come on, who was it?
innocent - I was quietly restacking my podumes at Southfields.
Out of shunt by shuttling to Rayners Lane.
Bank - L.V. generally 2 rising to 3 shortly.
Finally I'm able to re-enter (this is only my fifth move in this game despite playing the 9th move back in January 2003), Boolbar's Gants Hill really knocked me out ... two years I've been sitting on the sidelines waiting to play Oval ! Phew ! At last !
You're not leaving much choice for a new fellow! Earls Court I suppose then, despite it being a junior move.
Skittering to Wanstead. Sorry Blob, I don't think that does much for you, but I had to secure the potential peach podume point on the diagonal at Homerton.
I'll just drop in here with Colindale.
Employing Watson's Strategy to take a diagonal to Baker Street thus impeaching the Jubilee Line to the river.
Dropping by with Clapham Common to sidle out via a broken ticket barrier.
London Bridge, bonuses applied for (six week wait expected).
[Blob] I see you are back! Gants Hill
Boolbar] Or at least was... Pudding Mill Lane, knip invoked on IJB.
Ouch! Heading South to Green Park to chill out, leaving a Henderson Expansion as a parting gesture. Deal with it as you will.
The 1833 Half Scrotum to Battersea Park. (...Not very inventive, though)
Hmm. Kentish Town, hoping my scrotum is a whole one.
What are you people on?
[Efros] The 18.42 from Sanity, calling all stations to Madness Junction.
Calling Kathmandu Time with a line to Timbuktu
The Dark Side of the Moon
Ooh, a tough one to follow. I'll have to bifurcate to A Night At The Opera/A Day At The Races.
Going mad with Locust Abortion Technician / Trout Mask Replica
Taking my prudhommes to Piccadilly Circus where I intend to go to Starbucks.
EUSTON!!
Angel
Inexplicably found an orange podume, so on to Canada Water. Hey, don't shoot the messenger.
Ah, remembering Stratagem 3: Revenge of the Stovold I'd have to pick Morden.
day? night? dark? light? That leaves Temple on the right.
A rather rapid Victoria.
out of patience, Blackfriars
Not again... Tooting Bec
En route Paddington
back to the Circle with Sloane Square
missing the point completely, BANK!
Aldwych please
(Still awaiting developments four months later) *Farkle*.
I'd better °farkle° as well.
Turnham Green!
uhm... Lewisham, sideways, for three and then three more.
Gordon Bennett, I haven't been here for a couple of years! How are the lot of you, loathsome spongers to the lot!...have half a crown and Morden
why hello Little Jim. I think you'll find I am not a sponger, being closer to a leech in technique. Turnham Green.
Redbridge
New Cross Gate, keeping powder dry for now. Well...if seven years between moves isn't dry I don't know what is.
Impressively dry, that. And still a good aggressive move after it! Gallions Reach
Which puts me on a unicycle somewhere north of the river, looks like Mile End.
Highbury & Islington, straddling the Chelsea-Hackney Line and the East London Line extension, a move so staggeringly illegal it glows in the dark.
Woah. It's silenced the game for THREE WEEKS, it was that staggeringly illegal. I suppose I have no choice but to BZZZZZZZZZT! for Offside!
Right, on with the game then? A throw-in to Gants Hill.
passed to Pimlico, which I spelled with two 'p's a minute ago. heh.
...and driven boringly down the left wing to Arsenal
Hmm. This one needs some energy. I suggest a non-tactical bifurcation with spiral tendencies: Oval / Alperton. Hopefully people will try to deal with this problem rather than running away, but then tactical bad play always was risky...
Seven Sisters / Ongar. not a lot else to be said there.
Which leaves me cornered: Paddington (Circle)/Tower Hill. May as well yodel for a bit.
Oops, ah well. I seem to do this a lot. Ravenscourt Park / Ravenscourt Park, one heading north, the other south. I feel a little lost already.
Enforced lapse in play means I can reunify at Finsbury Park. Thank heavens for that!
Do I detect the faint, tinny smell of another zeroed line velocity in quadrant five? Bromley By Bow it is, then.
Cheeky play Botherer, though you've reversed the LV and I can shunt you to Leytonstone via Turnham Green for your troubles. Sorry!
Negative LV? Now there's a novelty.
Which leads me, neatly, to White City of course.
I see another four months have passed. Time for some decisive action, methinks. * Farkle *
Taking a tentative leave of absence from east London and sodding off to Tooting Broadway for last orders. Mate in three.
Herne Hill collecting unused toots.
Time to invoke the Third Left-Handed Rule of Dominance - Archway
East - West moves, followed by some unused toots & some Left Hand Dominance... getting rather kinky in here...
Which leaves no choice but Pontoon Dock invoking the new DLR route rule!
So there!
Royston Vasey a local move for local people.
A strange situation...nearly enough for the Waterloo & City line to be diddled, which has never happened in my lifetime. Sudbury Town out of sheer fear.
After 3 changes of underwear... Rhyffedd Coed, just in time for 'Snowdon Ranger' to arrive, with the mid-day summer special service.
I'll just change to a new suit thanks, with a step towards Alexandra Palace
In that case York Road
By jove, I just broke my red podume in surprise. Misses turn.
Well that leaves me with no choice but... Ludgate Hill and let that be a lesson to you!
Anyone mind if I just jump right in with both feet and a non-skid buffer, i'll make my play to Surrey Quays
Oh my goodness - I've been asleep. Sorry everyone, Croxley.
(Playing what seems to be my annual move in this game) - Pimlico side-swiping Salamander Pudding. One purple podume please.
Take yer' podume and off with you. That being my last purple I feel I am no longer safe on the defense in the southern regions. Whitechapel seems the only safe bet and may get me into a more balanced offensive set. As today is Little Ricky Day (Marking the arrival of Little Ricky on I Love Lucy in 1953) I believe I am entitled to three Red podumes from each of you.
[SP] Three Red you say? You're welcome - I wasn't using them anyway. Oh well, new year, new strategy. * Farkle *.
Oh dear, I'm stuck between Bank and Monument. How the hell did that happen?
Mill Hill to put it simply...
Just to see if this thing is still awake Knotty Ash.
Seven Sisters, bifurcation wild.
I'll bifurcate away then, as is my wont: Warren Street / Kilburn.
Liverpool Street / Tower Hill HA-HA! Take that. Winning is finally in my grasp.
Am I too late to join the long game...I have a 'get into St Johns Wood Free' card?
Oh my, everyone's welcome in the Long Game. While I'm here, Cannon Street / Walthamstow Central.
Well then - I'll play my 'get into St Johns Wood Free' card, and bifurcate the move, placing equally 4 red counters and 3 yellow squibs on St Johns Wood and Finchley Road. Not too bold a first move I hope?
Poplar / Swiss Cottage, obviously.
Camden Town / Seven Sisters, not so obviously.
Ahhhh! A little lateral thinking suggests the not so lateral Dollis Hill
Damn you tube station, you! Dollis Hill.
Ha ha!!! Dollis Hill *bugger*
What a lot of simpletons you are, one guy moves to Dollis Hill and you cant find a way to stay out yourselves? I suggest you all go back to the grammar school leagues and leave this game to REAL players. Dollis Hill, ahhhh crap, anybody have some crow?
[Salamander Pudding] I still have a "Get out of Dollis FREE" card.....coff.
Thanks my friend, would you be interested in a trade now?
Maybe SP...but careful who you call 'friend'...You may say other 'things' when you see my latest Locks move...Ah heck...*passes card*. See you at North End on our head to head...*smirk*
Paying the cost of LV redoubling, I make a break for Cockfosters.
With podumes tumbling left, right and centre I make a break for Bermondsey. Oh, the humanity!
Well, I think Temple.
Seems a little slow lately. Ladbroke Grove ought to speed things up.
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