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Mornington Crescent - New Game, Beginners Welcome

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Grey Area

12:07 / 17.05.05

Hmm. I do believe that the use of umlauts allows me to perform the Reichmann Steam-powered Inverter Shunt and land us on Oldenburger Straße.

wembley can change in 28 days

13:18 / 17.05.05

Strictly speaking, they're not considered umlauts (nor diaereses, even) in the locality in which they were used. Do we need to consult the rulebook, or should I just let it slide?

grant

18:03 / 17.05.05

Well, they're definitely *something*, right? I mean, it's not like they're just decoration on the letters.

So if it was me, I'd let it slide.

Red-to-orange, The former Ramses, current Mubarak Station.

I think I'll have London in two, depending -- livestock rail variances are legal in cross-Alpine play under this ruleset, aren't they?

Grey Area

18:24 / 17.05.05

Yes, I do believe they are. And while this totally playing into your hands Grant, St-Francois Xavier is too nice-sounding a play to pass up.

grant

16:37 / 21.07.05

So, two months and two terrorist incidents later, where does that leave play?

the Fool

08:16 / 22.07.05

you could try the otherside of the world...

Tryphena Absent

01:06 / 23.07.05

Well I suppose you have to spend a little time avoiding the lines that aren't actually working or you'll have to perform a replacement bus shunt. An incredibly complex move. 2003 inevitable attack weekday revision.

Our Lady Won't Do That Again
(prev. Our Lady in Her Haus)

15:51 / 23.07.05

Hmmm, tricky. I know this caused the Great Schism of 1942, between those, mainly in the counties, who insisted on playing Mornington Crescent as they always had, and those, mainly in London, who played with Nids and even the archaic Woffs (have any of you tried playing with Woffs? That's a real head-fuck) on damaged stations and lines.

I know the King and Queen insisted on following the county version, even when in town. When the bomb hit the palace they changed their game to the city rules and the then Queen was heard to say "Now we can look the East End in the face." To which the King quipped "Bromley-by-Bow". Great days, real gents they were, even the women...

Doesn't really help much I'm afraid.

grant

15:42 / 25.07.05

But if the buses are affected at the same time as the trains, there's going to have to be a different ruleset for replacement bus shunts.

Didn't Woffs involve animal-drawn vehicles, or is that something unique to one of those retro/steam-punk post-Blue Chalk Farm rule books?

Our Lady Won't Do That Again
(prev. Our Lady in Her Haus)

12:06 / 12.12.05

Well, due to the long suspension of play I can now bring in Kentish Town on the Queen's Shunt...

pointless & uncalled for

12:57 / 12.12.05

You're not going to get away with getting that close.

Mudchute

Better than three nids for half a crown of the realm.

Just to bring back the excitement I'm releasing two ninja monkeys, a pirate shrew and a murder of oblique carriage crows onto the system.

If you try to make exit from the system there's a GMTV chance that your travel card has been nicked.

grant

22:34 / 12.12.05

I'm completely lost.

Someone tell me what's open to me -- we're back on London-only mapping, right?

pointless & uncalled for

11:03 / 13.12.05

OK, it's a new game.

London only, international travel was barred after someone ratted on Lady's smuggling ring. Seems there was a strong market for contraband german teacups.

Nids are fly until the third round when the tracks become fully charged. After that it's all fair game. Switches, shunts and finagles are good - counds, blocks, shorts and traversions are bad. Pints are imperial, nodes are silent and everything else is 1942 Caxton-Watts GMT.

All change please because the note slot has been chewing up fivers all morning and I've already got a queue of angry tourists as long as your wossname.

grant

17:54 / 13.12.05

All change? Oddly, I happen to have a pocket full of Susan B. Anthony dollars I got as change from a stamp machine last night. Weird how things work out.

So, new game, tracks charging up, I'll play Waterloo. As opposed to the other kind of loo.

grant

14:50 / 14.12.05

(I wonder if this thread should be moved to Games & Gameplay...)

pointless & uncalled for

15:22 / 14.12.05

Such wondering has put you back three spaces. Miss a go and give all the other players something that has stuck to your shoe.

The Freewheeling Penis
(prev. The Freewheeling Convo)

16:29 / 14.12.05

A bit risky but, Southwark

The Freewheeling Penis
(prev. The Freewheeling Convo)

16:36 / 14.12.05

(btw, are we going to allow full pickerings in this game?)

Our Lady Won't Do That Again
(prev. Our Lady in Her Haus)

16:35 / 15.12.05

I've personally never liked pickerings, I can use them but on a point of personal preference they leave a nasty taste in my mouth.

Kentish Town

Perfect Tommy

22:54 / 15.12.05

You truly are a lady, Lady-- can't stand the brutish things myself. In that spirit, Cannon Street.

pointless & uncalled for

16:18 / 16.12.05

Thirded - no pickerings.

Grange Hill

Something tells me that the ninja monkeys are currently wreaking havoc on the Picadilly Line. The crows seem obsessed with the DLR. I knew this would happen.

Our Lady Won't Do That Again
(prev. Our Lady in Her Haus)

16:46 / 16.12.05

Keep up, you called a new game so the wildlife doesn't get released until all players have progressed from zone 5 to zone 1, or half the players have progressed and the next player is left with no recourse except to Nid hirself.

East Finchley.

grant

19:39 / 16.12.05

You decide what it is.

I take Kings Cross.

The Freewheeling Penis
(prev. The Freewheeling Convo)

21:00 / 16.12.05

Cockfosters

Our Lady Won't Do That Again
(prev. Our Lady in Her Haus)

15:09 / 17.12.05

Strawberry Hill!

Perfect Tommy

11:22 / 18.12.05

Erm. Bermondsey, no trump.

Perfect Tommy

11:23 / 18.12.05

(I always thought this thread was in Creation because there wasn't a better fit... Gameplay seems logical.)

The Strobe

11:51 / 18.12.05

East Finchley, no trump. (G&G is for discussion of such matters, not playing. It stays in Creation.)

Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH

13:22 / 18.12.05

From East Finchley I'm going to Turnpike Lane, in order to get that tricky internal glide out of the way before the Christmas rules kick in.

Thaddeus "B." Glands

21:20 / 18.12.05

From there, I'll head to Goodge Street in order to prevent someone attempting a Hangman's gambit which could be potentially disastrous at this point in the game.

Perfect Tommy

10:53 / 19.12.05

Paleface: Okay, I'll buy that. Thaddeus: I like it, but I'd consider what'll happen the second time someone leaves demi-nid...

Warwick Avenue

grant

17:49 / 19.12.05

Shunting to Acton Town. For God's sake, keep me away from Heathrow before I go mad again.

Thaddeus "B." Glands

08:10 / 20.12.05

Tommy: As long as they perform a frontside diagonal shunt, we should come out of it okay. This is assuming we're playing the '74 rules, of course, which allow such a move thanks to Trumpleford's 3rd Amendment.

And onto White City!

pointless & uncalled for

11:45 / 20.12.05

Sorry Thad but it's still Caxton-Watts '42 and Trumpleford was but a twinkle in the milkman's eye at the time. No Swithering Blues either, just in case you were thinking of it.

White City was not a wise move.

Caledonia Road is though and that spells danger for X, Y and Z.

The Freewheeling Penis
(prev. The Freewheeling Convo)

13:12 / 20.12.05

You think you all have it in the bag. But I give you... a Pembleton's Coupling which means grant and Paleface have to play their next moves from Ruislip. Don't worry, though, I won't be playing a Trafford Cough this time. That really didn't go down well last christmas.

Onward to Northolt!

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