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The Black Hole
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Inverse Crescent. You are drawn by a gradually increasing force towards MC. The measurement of the force (which we will call "Pull") is basically -LV, but it does not increase at a uniform rate. This is probably due to quantum. (The technical specialists among us can expand on this.) Periodic announcements on the current level of Pull will be made by Mission Control. The aim is to resist the increasing attraction to MC as long as possible. The higher your LV away from MC, the longer you can resist, but if your LV becomes greater than 186,000, then you break free of Pull altogether and spin off into outer wotsit, ending up god knows where. The first person to arrive at MC, obviously, loses the game.
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Now arriving at Cockfosters. Aiiiieee! Zone 5 - this station is unplayable. LV is now 256,000. Houston, we have a problem...
Well, Canal Street, so I'm still going in the wrong direction, but I'm sure there's a wormhole on the A line somewhere. LV now down to 88,263, though, and at least I'm avoiding the turkey.
Euston Square, holding on with my fingernails. LV now 127,365.9 and still climbing
(sorry it has been since my last move) wandering aorund dollis hill has fiven me an idea, i toss a rare venezualand pistachio podume into the air, the speed i am traveling is so great thatafter two complete revolutions i am at the exact same spot and get hit in the head with said podume. i can only move to dollis hill, i cannot move to dollis hill. the resulting reciprivesexclusion puts my LV at some number outside the scope of real or unreal numbers, the absolute value of my LV is less than 10. i am now somewhere and declare insufficient losing chances. call the judge i believe the game now ends in a tie. if not you get two minits added onto your clock.
O my, it seems tat the stray mission control transmission was from the future, this future!! what have i done!!
LV struggling to keep up. Tower Hill, with crampons attached.
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Hello?......Is there anybody out there?.....
Well, my LV is infinite now, so I'm either disqaulified or at MC. Or possibly both. Can I *quantu-farkle*?
And I'm back at Walthamstow Central, with an LV of 21,004.93, so utterly stable. Except that the date appears to be 1962, so I'm still waiting for the Victoria Line to be built. And Hugh Gaitskell is Prime Minister, so this may be a parallel universe, and I might need to get the overground.
Good morning. We apologise for the quantum subspace gravimetrion fluctuations in temporal stability that have caused MC5 time to effectively stand still for the past few seconds. Pull has been measured at -43,394.27 closing off all borders at Zone 2. Crypto-straddles into Zone 3 are still theoretically possible but should not be attempted without an LV terminal capacitor. Today's special is..err...Tang. That is all.
Well it would appear I'm stuck at Bond Street where my LV has shot up to 7.327 recurring. Although I'm not sure if my meter's been calibrated in hundreds, tens or units, or even base 8. Hang on, that's not a 3, it's a capital E. Someone's set me in hexadecimal again...
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3 is where I am, LV Euston. If my LV gets to MC, what happens?
Oddly, I'm at Euston, LV 3, but I can't see you anywhere. LV*XX = MC, surely?
Good morning. Pull has been measured at -100,000.000000001, making only a small area around MC and environs playable. Quantum tetrion inversion magnitute has virtually disappeard, the end is in sight. Today's special is Consommé. That is all.
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Consommé is waaay too runny and insubstantial to be any help in slowing down the vortex that is gradually drawing me in. Last time I looked out through the broth I was swirling under Camden Market... I surfaced at Mornington Crescent with my hair full of noodles and a perfectly final LV of -1-. How did that happen?
*shouts, screams, generally goes wild for penelope*
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