Mornington Crescent

[gothwalk]

You know, it just occured to me that LJ is the perfect forum for games of Mornington Crescent. This was mainly caused by olethros starting one on fibbers, mind. So while I'm playing in that one, anyone who's interested can join in here.


olethros is using the rather liberal West London ruleset, so I'm actually going - in honour on Connie Willis, who writes books about time travel - to use the Blitz 1943 rules. This tends to cut down on the slides, but allows a good deal more emergnecy transport, and has an Ambience Rating of twelve and two-thirds.

So, with all of that in mind, we'll start at Willesden Junction. Red token for me...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well if you're going to be petty and Air Raid right after an all clear...scrabble to Westministe.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Hey, the ruleset allows for eight in a row for historical reasons. I have to admit I'm a bit stumped by that one, though, so I'll have to just do a cat-on-the-tracks-en-passe to Embankment. A rather sad move, I know, but I can't honestly see anything else with a decent fare/pigeon ratio...

Fandango Line

[juanfandango.livejournal.com]

I no theenk that was veery clever, my leetle meenion, for eet allows me to go to:

Mudchute.

Re: Fandango Line

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Ho-yay! Pudding Mill Lane! Sir.

(And I know that was mean, but what can you do when an opportunity presents itself for a Double Wallace?)

Re: Fandango Line

[(Anonymous)]

Buff Knightsbridge, then (rather unsportingly) take advantage of the fact that Blue hasn't moved yet, and shuttle the two of us to Whitehall, crosswise.

Gar

Re: Fandango Line

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Gar, you cad! In defense of Blue, I'll take a few minutes away from what turns out to have been a rather ruinous obsession with actually getting the Double Wallace (and I'm not letting out any secrets when I say that putting a possible Triple Helinki anywhere near me is like cream near a cat) to enable three future slipshods and get myself to the little-used Bermondsey. I know that's an overland, but at least I refrained from the Air Raid. All clear from next turn?

Re: Fandango Line

[(Anonymous)]

Triple Helinki is eminently possible in a small game like this, with only three active players. (We need a Black or Yellow to activate.) So, I'll go Whitehall->Oxford Circus, picking up an umbrella at Paddington on the way, and then use the Thitch-Horsely Air Defence rule (assuming the tide's out, which it should be by my reckoning) to get the All Clear without calling an All Clear. Howzat?

Gar

Re: Fandango Line

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

I'll leave an expensive handbag in Holborn to secure a spot at Covent and dig in there for now. I expect unless someone decides to invoke a Quarter Status, I'm all right.

Re: Fandango Line

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

I can't get a Quarter Status out of that, and I'm caught without an umbrella. But... I can manage a Wimbledon Piratical Daguerrotype to bring me all the way to Acton Town. Seven and three-quarter points to me.

Re: Fandango Line

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Using Transatlantic Conversion, I can probably snag two meager points from that if I reverse direction to Caledonian Road.

Re: Fandango Line

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Ok, that one had a go at losing me. Air Raid time, and a Rasta Exhibition, Mode III, leaving us, likely somewhat out of breath, and still lacking an umbrella, in Pimlico. And the tide is coming in.

Re: Fandango Line

[(Anonymous)]

I'm liking the look of Holborn, so I'll Lemon Shufty there before the air raid hits. Rasta Exhibition means that all Type 2 stations will be impassable (full of plucky Londoners sheltering from the blitz), so I'll spend a detachment and go via Liverpool St.

Re: Fandango Line

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

And a neat and clean Swish gets us to Woodford. Grange Hill is nearby, so watch out for Serial Loops. Not mention Half Bricks. From the looks of things, we may be entering the end stages now.

Re: Fandango Line

[mytholder.livejournal.com]

Damn. I was vaguely hoping you'd forget about the game, letting me win by Slacking Churchill Rule. Fine.

Goods train from Liverpool to the nearest circle line station, then head north, closing the river crossings and calling you a Rickety Chinaman as I head for Holborn, two stops, mind the gappe.

Re: Fandango Line

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

No forgetting here, as I move to Euston on a Quixotic Charge. I think I'm safe on the gappe, and unless you can come up with a move I just haven't seen, I'll win after your next move.

Re: Fandango Line

[mytholder.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Overland move to Morninging High Street, and (Half-Bosworthly) windmilling my arms. Tilt that!

I can think of at least one way for you to get around that, but if you don't spot in, I'll be nipping down the steps to sweet Crescent-shaped victory next move...

Re: Fandango Line

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

And indeed, there is at least one way to get around it: A quaternary wicket, at least in the '43 set, will bring me, albeit via a Blitz costing me all my remaining tokens, to:

Mornington Crescent.

Jolly good game, chaps.