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The Not-So-Long Game: Finsbury Option '88
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To Mornington Crescent, and let the play be fair (if devious). Quadrant 5 is wild, no podumes and striles count double.
Harrow-on-the-Hill, home withheld. Ruttsborough would have loved this ruleset, I always thought.
No podumes, Eh. In that case there's hardly any penalty from declaring home at Strand. Opening at Southwark of course.
Home declared at Turnham Green and opening with that old favourite, Neasden.
I haven't played the Game for ages, not properly! Um, opening at Baker Street, Home at Turnpike Lane.
Right then. Bromley-by-Bow, shunting Software. It's nice to be able to play ruthlessly again!
Well at least I know who to avoid for during my Cartwright's opening gambit, starting at Pimlico declaring Home at Brent Cross .
Tuj's shunt leaves me with no other option than Epping.
Ah-HA! Kennington, a green token dropped on Oval.
If it's old, and it's a street, it must be Old Street.
If it's new, it's a gate and it's not happy, it must be New Cross Gate
If it's much sharper tactical play resulting in a silver podume gain, it must be Alperton :P
If it's almost round, and there's a green podume there, it's Oval.
BZZZZTTT C'mon Humph, get a grip on those two - the rules say NO podumes quite clearly.
Oh pills, serves me right for not paying attention to the ruleset, very slack. I'll have to surrender my Zone 1 pass and restart from South Acton.
Seven Sisters, home at Harrow & Wealdstone. This promises to be a fairly long game.....
Oh dear oh dear oh dear. It was a token, actually, as seen in previous post. Very careless of me. My LV is now negative which propels me backwards... so Kennington again.
Pinner the hard way. I'm in a rakish mood, so to heck with a home station.
Wood Green, roving home somewhere in Quadrant 5
Looking at the state of play and the confiscated podumes, I'll play cautiously with Hatton Cross.
Baker Street. Just you all wait. Especially you, INJ.
[Néa] Not if I get there first! Arnos Grove!
Stumped. Could try Embankment I suppose.
Easy. Elephant and Castle making an opening for a possible strile, methinks.
Hm. Leytonstone, I think. *seethe*
[Néa] Leytonstone, yes? So you won;t mind if I go to Leyton and box you then?
[Tuj] By all means, go ahead.
Alright then. Leyton, boxing Néa.
...disasterously mistakes a straddle for a strile and ends up tripping over the escalator at Canada Water...
Oh, I see... Mornington Crescent, Mortensen's Parallax being wide open and all.
*shouts, screams generally goes wild for Tuj*
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