Mornington Crescent - 2006 Trellis Anniversary Edition

[tubeguru]

Ah, but what you have failed to grasp is the little-used, but highly effective buffer bounce which, if played during a three step lock breaking spoon trap attempt can actually force the positive aura onto the defensive, regardless of the presence of any tokens occupying any intermediate zonal fluxes.

Thus, we can, with careful consideration to any move The Masked One may make (because he's bound to try to ambush this idea) move with the off side currents and avoid upsetting the equilbrium of the token table to:

CROXLEY

All interchanges are now wild; all other stations are in contempt AND we now have a unique situation where Barry is up the creek without a paddle because he's lost his topaz tokens.

Ha!

[CrunchySaviour]

Magnificent - that's just what I expected you to do in the circumstances.

I had planned for this since three turns ago. The half-round is now complete and, as we we enter the fifth half with anticipation and the station reset looms ever larger out of the fog, we begin to realise our drastic predicament.

TRAFALGAR SQUARE.

[tubeguru]

That's a smart move. Beginners should take note of the parity of this move in all future contortions.

With time on our side, however, it is permissable at this point to enter some kind of loop. Hainault is out of the question thanks to the earlier trouble and any kind of East London Line crossover might destabilise the gaps.

DOLLIS HILL

(Hopefully we can gain enough line speed in the ensuing loop to move us a sufficient distance from Zone D).

[zeibura]

bollocks.

DOLLIS HILL then.

[CrunchySaviour]

The line differential should allow a slingshot manoeuvre, yes.

DOLLIS HILL.

[zeibura]

in response to that slingshot maneouvre i shall teleport to willesden green catching the stone, and then incorporate the collins-robert shuffle, taking me around the grey pivot picking up a scarlet token and phasing me into..

DOLLIS HILL

[CrunchySaviour]

Look, over there! That signal is BLUE!

(Roget's distraction, 1974, Trans-Pacific Cup, semi-final).

Now you've all gone to have a look, I can cunningly play

DOLLIS HILL

taking care not to upset the circular balance as described by cDonald's [sic] Theorem (n^2 + 9 + 9).

[zeibura]

well, i think it's time to change the tactics here. i'll use the polarsky shuffle, which takes me, astonishingly, to

DOLLIS HILL

[jonny]

Dollis Hill

[tubeguru]

Well this is certainly a very unpredictable passage of play here. I didn't see any of the last few moves coming I must confess.

Since the power rails are still live and the moon is on the wane, I can see no other solution apart from:

DOLLIS HILL

[CrunchySaviour]

Tubeguru!

I personally haven't seen a move of such genius since the famous Mafia scandal at the Rome World Cup, 1985!

You leave me with little choice. PLacing Kings Cross firmly in Spoon,

DOLLIS HILL.

[zeibura]

congratulations there tubeguru, i can now invert line velocity and swing to point 7-east, which is now

DOLLIS HILL.

[tubeguru]

Yes, I'm glad the loopage wasn't disturbed too much there.

At this rate we'll break the world record Dollis Hill loop of 266 repetitions, set back in the 1677 Munich Open.

But simply playing Dollis Hill here is no good unless we are certain that parity will be maintained in all gold sections. So I'm going to have to force a shunt with:

DOLLIS HILL

[CrunchySaviour]

Well, I would counter with Dollis Hill, were Moor Park not inverted, and were the entire District line suspended until further notice.

As it stands, however, I must employ a Meissner strile, effectively transporting Dollis Hill around its own loop, with

DOLLIS HILL.

[Adham]

Well, strategically, the only other place I can go now is:

DOLLIS HILL.