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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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