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Mornington Crescent - New Game, Beginners Welcome

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Tezcatlipoca

15:36 / 18.12.03

Finsbury Park? You..er..do know how this game is played, don't you KKC? I mean, you're not just making this up as you go along, are you? It's just a move of Finsbury Park after Cockfosters would appear to suggest you are hoping for a Victoria Backloop or some equally near-suicidal move, when, as every fule knowe, the presence of a train station only move (Balham by the good two-towered lady) within the last three plays precludes any sort of play to a Zone 2 location on an even-dated Thursday.

However, a democratic player to the end, I am willing to throw this open to general consensus. Should KKC's move be permitted, or should - since she has played a Victoria/Piccadilly parallel - she be forced to Reverse-Shunt to another Zone?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:12 / 18.12.03

Well, it is Christmas... (and it'd get me out of semi-Nid, which could, I'm sure you're aware, be beneficial for quite a few players above and beyond myself).

Our Lady of The Two Towers

05:12 / 19.12.03

Yeah, let it through, though I shall have stern words with our lady of the chocolatey biscuits next time I see her. I do so dislike frivolous Mornington Crescent...

Anyone want to play on from where it's fallen?

Kit-Cat Club

08:16 / 19.12.03

Tez, don't be a twerp. Did you not note my invocation of the festive backsliding rule (Stapleton rules, 1887)? As you will no doubt recall, this allows me to avoid the restrictions imposed by the train-station only move by using the Trumpleton-Fincham Fork to block the Victoria and Piccadilly double backloop and sit tight at Finsbury Park waiting for some fool to blow a gasket and take the Circuitous Route down to Bank via Stratford and Westminster. As any fule kno.

Tezcatlipoca

08:35 / 19.12.03

Agreed. But wasn't the festive backsliding dropped from the Stapleton 1887 ruleset following that disasterous game at Bognor in 1919? Well, regardless, it is the time for peace on earth and goodwill to all players, and given also that the general agreement is to allow the move, let's forget about it.

So, after that brief clarification of the rules, anybody care to continue from Finsbury Park?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:29 / 19.12.03

Oh God yes. (For reasons outlined above.)

Chancery Lane

And I'll try to keep it nice this time, semi-Nid or no-semi-Nid

■

15:48 / 19.12.03

I think that brings us back to parity as my Redmond amendment earlier allows a diversion via Brookside Close to Chancery Lane along all stopping lines (as long as the next move is always Bond Street, which then makes things precarious in itself).

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:28 / 19.12.03

Essex Road

Damn, so close and yet so far...

Baz Auckland

17:10 / 19.12.03

This is an admittably iffy move, but...

Canada Water

The Strobe

20:18 / 19.12.03

Cunning. Back to an old favourite:

Mile End.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:55 / 19.12.03

Turnham Green, I think.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

10:54 / 21.12.03

Croydon EAST bay-bee!

Jack Vincennes

14:25 / 21.12.03

After much frowning and deep contemplation -

Camden Town.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:17 / 21.12.03

While I ponder the "so near yet so far" ramifications of Vincennes' oh-so-sneaky Trumble Interchange, I just thought I'd share an interesting MC-related fact (to destroy everyone's concentration, for I am eeevil.) I found out today that Humphrey Lyttleton actually TURNED DOWN a Knighthood in 1996! What a guy!

OK... let's do this.

Mill Hill East

■

21:54 / 21.12.03

No.
Can't be, can it?
Has someone used the chaffinch trump yet? [Checks thread]
No.
The Mole diversion? Berkley Square bird hop?
I don't believe it. I've never managed this since aunt Mabel passed on.
MORNINGTON CRESCENT!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

03:09 / 22.12.03

(slaps forehead) FUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe I just did that.

Fair play to ya, Cube.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

17:11 / 12.01.04

Invoking the Jealous Gods Jurisdiction was always going to end in tears, Chairman. Turnham Green indeed!

Let's start the new round with a classic Deedpol Opening Gambit :

If I change my name to Russell Square, will you change yours to Warren Street?

(or Victoria Line, for any ladies who may be playing)

The Strobe

18:58 / 12.01.04

Edgware Road.

grant

20:41 / 12.01.04

Glad to see the game got revived in my absence.

If I enter on Goodge Street, think I can make a knacker to Mornington in three moves? Five?

Perfect Tommy

06:26 / 13.01.04

I can see it if I play West Finchley, grant, but I'm curious to see if you can pull it off from Finchley Central. (My first game, though; maybe that's trivial.)

The Strobe

09:36 / 13.01.04

No, Tommy, I think you're right. Besides, I don't like the way grant pulls those knackers off - something a bit unsporting about the Knacker as a move, really.

Jub

14:28 / 13.01.04

Paleface, I think the Knacker is fine - according to the bridge hatch rules (1978). It did stop a lot of arguments and maybe it'll do the same here.

As for the game - I'm stumped!

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

15:16 / 13.01.04

All I can see is St John's Wood. I might be playing this rather short-sightedly though.

pointless and uncalled for

15:19 / 13.01.04

Good god Jub, it's perfectly clear here. With grant on the shuffle for a knacker and Paleface clearly angling for a shinebox bypass the most obvious option is to play a Maltese Inversion off of the disused Aldwych station right into the devilish Kew Gardens. No man alive has managed to clean Kew Gardens to Mornington Crescent in one move after a Maltese inversion.* Thus this is my move.

*Note - In the highly coveted 1932 Wynnstanley Postal Game one Mr. Persimmon Sodworthy managed a highly complicated conjugation of thirteen seperate rules, plus addended clauses, that allowed him to successfully win the game after a Maltese Inversion to Kew Gardens. However, Mr. Sodworthy was run down by a 390 bus just minutes after posting the letter. As the move could only be registered upon the opening of the letter the game was technically won by a dead man.

Bomb The Past

15:37 / 13.01.04

TSK's little excursion to Kew Gardens seems to have kicked things into the long grass for a while. To avoid the sort of tedious stalemate that has beleagured many a game since the revisons to the original 1982 ruleset (still legal in the Papal States!) I shall opt for Ruislip Manor.

pointless and uncalled for

15:46 / 13.01.04

Ruislip Manor, you fool.

Now both of us are in quasi-nid.

Thanks, next time I'll use a Slipstream Finagle and trust my chances to the hands of fate.

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

16:17 / 13.01.04

Ruislip Manor can easily be retrived through invocation of the Kingsland Overture; being born of Australian mother and Lativian father, I am able to summon it forthwith.

Which does, rather unfortunately, take us to Elephant and Castle

grant

17:09 / 13.01.04

Finchley Central and Ruislip Manor?

I'm heading to Canada Water. Modified knacker, I suppose. Four moves left for me to make it.

The Strobe

18:11 / 13.01.04

Hmn. I don't think you're going to have much luck, grant.

Dollis Hill.

(Hah!)

pointless and uncalled for

19:17 / 13.01.04

Hmm, what can I say grant, a modified knacker is not much use at all. Fortunately for you I'm quasi-nid but I can still play.

However, what to do.

From Dollis Hill it is tempting to use some serious technicalities to place you on a switcher. But why go complicated when a nice simple, slightly chaffinched, move to Perivale will cause all manner of perplexity and take me a notch* out of nid.

*Notching - approved by the 1984 convening of the MCC for full usage on all rule systems.
It may be worth of note that since the instigation of the title of master notcher it have been awarded to such people as Buddy Holly, Pablo Picasso, Moira Stuart, Paul Wilson of Cirencester and the lovely Gail Porter.

Perfect Tommy

07:36 / 14.01.04

Heh. Chancery Lane.

Jack Vincennes

09:19 / 14.01.04

Fun. And to think that I suspected this game was going to be one of those dreadful, tortuous ones (along the lines of the 1868 Worlds final between Prussia and Sweden, a fiasco with which I am sure all here will be entirely familiar).

To continue in this frivolous spirit : Kensal Green.

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

10:39 / 14.01.04

Ooh, Vincennes, you little tease you.

But: Angel.

How d'you like them apples?

grant

14:01 / 14.01.04

Fuck you, Perfect Tommy. You cannot stop me.

One extra move, though, with a transfer at Euston Station. Four moves left to Mornington.

By the way, are we playing with 1974 construction schedules or current ones? The thread starts saying we're using 1974 rules, but I'm not sure if the tracks are 1974 tracks, or if we're just using that ruleset with the current set of rails? I think it makes more sense to use today's underground with the '74 rules, but I want to be sure before making my next play.

adamswish

15:30 / 14.01.04

London Bridge

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