Maze Hill
(Am i the only one playing in hard mode ?)
I’ll be lurking in Cyprus then. It suits me fine if you consider this to be not hard mode enough.
(Just imagining I had chosen Turkey Street instead gives me a chuckle attack.)
This old traditionalist is feeling a bit lost, let’s try what should be a safety play with Bank.
Oh dear.
Fairlop.
The Ursines are circling. As are the Selachii.
Not sure if I should be bold or count my fingers. Methinks that @Cardigan is about to play something definitive. If you triangulate the preparatory Bermondsey/Camden Town/Chesham plays you can see a pattern. To be fair, by running to a terminal stretches my reasoning. Were the latter run had been truncated at Finchley Road the strategy would have been incontrovertible. But now, is this peregrinating artifice or has he dropped the soap? Big call.
I have no valid method to prevent that, of course. But if I splash out some hard-won tokens I can get into northside Zone2, let’s make it Kentish Town, I think Archway is too distant, from where, if eyes and concentration are blinded by all that coronation bling, the gate of opportunity might just be left that fraction open.
Well played sir. Or rather, it would be particularly well played were it not for the unfortunate fact that we’re still operating under rounders provisions. You’ll note ‘rounders’ was declared by me way back in move #35 at Royal Victoria. No one has declared an end to rounders. There were several subsequent opportunities to end it, however, I’m convinced most players have been content to accrue the associated bonus tokens. pjd and Dead_Cat certainly did not want to see rounders end, as it seems rather apparent both have been trying to outwait each other in executing the Jubilee Gambit. In any event, Heathcliff’s Rule still applies and Kentish Town is not a permitted move. Which leaves me quite open to call Erasmus.
Oh, and since nobody else has done so, I declare rounders ended (apologies to pjd and Dead_Cat)
Rounders? On a sunny 05.05., Sir? Well, it seems almost cruel – and certainly farcical – to steer the match in this way for entirely obsolete reasons due to a head-scratching, laughable arcane technicality, but it is not me who is going to object to that, because I’ll enter the fray through Marble Arch with my head up high.
FFS. my strategy was depending on rounders being active.
Those fools on the mornington crescent forums don’t know what they’re
talking about. So…
Mitcham Eastfields
Which forum, sir? The Greater Open Leicester Lashers Youths (GOLLY) truly consists of layabouts who talk out of their postertiers when it comes to The Game. I thought I recognized their fingerprints in your strategy. Their current president, Major General Stanley couldn’t find his way to MC if someone pushed him through the turnstile, and the rest of his fawners and hangers ons are no better. I bet they tried to wow and amaze you with their many “championships.” If you look closely, most of those placings and showings occurred well over thirty years ago. The Game has moved on since then. Too bad they have not.
May I suggest taking a look at the Sheffield National Associated Functional United (SNAFU) forums next time?
You could have avoided my next play:
New Southgate
Let me just amplify the venerable @Pardel-Lux rounders? Seeking material advantage from what 'twas naught but a disingenuous typographical error? I thought you’d called fish in negation. 'Tis but tosh and nonsense. Reputations have been squandered on less.
Look at the impact on your fellow travelers. @pjd, as stealthy and precise operator as ever bedazzled the baize was spun off into playing Mitcham Eastfields on ThamesLink??? Whatderhey, I asks you? Then comes the kicker, playing Erasmus, Brussels. What’s next, Grand Central, New York?
So to preserve what remains from my discombobulation and with my wits functionarily intact I still think best served to keep close to hand and play old school. Verily, Golders Green
The C’ronation is upon us and I see (and smell!) broad beans everywhere, it makes me feel sadly pythagorean. I flee to Belsize Park, blocking some peripheral lines and forcing some minor diversions for some players. Small consolation for a day like this one. At least it rains, the detail the authorities could not control turned out to be the most British one. Good thing I carry my brolly. Black, of course, not one of those modern fancy plastic things with pseudo patriotic prints made in East Bengal or Cochinchina.
Since this seems to be an ‘Anything Goes’ sort of game, I guess I’ll head right out west to Bristol Temple Meads.
Since today is coronation day, I’m claiming Imperial Privilege and taking us across the pond to Central Park North. Hot dogs and papaya drinks are on me.
I’ll eat your hot dog with relish, but pass on papaya while taking advantage of the transatlantic tranfer to nip over to Botanic Garden
That’s the one. I checked some of the MC games in their thread games category and
most of them seem to just post random station names. Bastards.
Anyway … I was hoping to keep this game UK based, but seeing as it’s sparkly hat day
i’ll go with it for the sake of US/Anglo relations (ie, can we have a trade deal please ?)
Locust Manor
I’ve only got one eligible token on this side of the pond and that’s for 34th St./Herald Square
Just like the trade deal is blocked I was thinking of blocking Willesden Junction, but I will go to Canada Water as a consolation instead. For the dreamers who still think they can merge with Canada. Cheer up!
In the labrithine structure and convoluted precedents of this gameshow meets CalvinBall, so many impossible and misfortunate things continue to be played with collective and referential eye to finical historical detail, expressed with prolixity, faux indignation and/or straight-faced banality that the echo of gentle absurdist humour lingers long and greatly amuses oneself.
But alas I still think of this as a board game … with a map. Wherever in this sessions places, time zones and faire volte-faces have been may be the new vogue but I’m not convinced that the venerable Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton wouldn’t be slowly rotating.
I guess, in the current spirit of “aventure”, at this juncture I might well call Milsons Point, but my heart is no longer in it. So I’m just going to throw my chips into the ante and call pass.
The coronation is over, and consistent with Rule XXVII(d)(ii) we must now return to London. And to mark the event, I will now spend one of my highest value tokens going to Goodge Street
Crikey! That’s only three stops away! I call foul, sir! As anyone who keeps up with the journals knows, Rule XXVII(d)(ii) does not cover the Northern Line, otherwise penultima_thule could have called MC on their turn. Luckily, rule XXIX(e)(iii) as covered and ruled in the December 2002 edition of Mornington Crescent Illustrated (not the infamous swimsuit edition - the other one) covers such breaches of decorum. Let’s bring this back to a more legal footing with:
Shoreditch High Street