Mornington Crescent

[mnemosynoid]

Player Six, Turn One
Starting Position: Mornington Crescent
Current Objective: Mornington Crescent
Starting Possessions: Starting Ticket, luggage

Movement

1) Northern Line Southbound (by starting ticket): Mornington Crescent — > Warren Street
[I'm going to keep this simple for now. This should keep options open for future line attachment strategies, while I meanwhile save up tokens.]

Ending Position: Warren Street
Ending Possessions: luggage, 2 minimal movement tokens
Ending Status: furtive

[Alicorn]

A colors legend, most colors declared by fiat:

Overground: #FFBF40
Northern Line: (plain bold)
National Rail: #FF3333
Piccadilly Line: #0000BF
Victoria Line: #00FFFF
Bakerloo Line: #804000
Central Line: #BF0000
Circle Line: #FFFF00
District Line: #008000
Hammersmith & City Line: #FF00FF
Jubilee Line: #848482
Metropolitan Line: #800080
Waterloo & City Line: #80BFBF
Tramlink: #80FF80
The River Thames: #80BFFF
Other Intra-London Locations: #BF00FF
Miscellaneous Out-Of-Bounds Locations: #FF00BF

Boards again: mine, lambda's

[AndaisQ]

Player Seven, Turn One
Starting Position: Mornington Crescent
Current Objective: Mornington Crescent
Starting Possessions: Starting Ticket, mohair scarf, unspecified cache at South Woodford [unattended baggage], luggage (burlap sack containing seventeen plastic shopping bags, tack and bridle for Shetland pony [no pony], and a hogshead of wine on a small wheeled cart; alternate luggage according to Chapter 17 table 4-B)

Movement

1) Northern Line, Southbound: Mornington Crescent --> Euston --> Warren Street
2) In lieu of spending the rest of my movement, I'm going to take advantage of my colocation with Victoria to establish a preemptive rectory in Seven Sisters using numerological coincidence by player status (Aminev 34.173). And call Gold Rush on Highbury & Islington. (Sorry, pistachi0n - never overextend on a handicap-inaccessible station, especially not on a turquoise line.)

Purchase and Exchanges

1) Upkeep: Two groats (milled, 1573; beaten, 1682)
2) Exchange: Starting Ticket --> Little Red Book, original Chinese (autographed).

Ending Location: Warren Street
Ending Possessions: Two groats, Little Red Book, mohair scarf, luggage (burlap sack containing seventeen plastic shopping bags, tack and bridle for Shetland pony [no pony], and a hogshead of wine on a small wheeled cart)
ETA: Oh, for God's sake. End Status: Reprehensible

[Alicorn]

[Okay, if andaisq's done editing, my turn again.]

Player One, Turn Two
Starting Position: Piccadilly Circus
Current Objective: Mornington Crescent
Current Possessions: His Holiness The Reverend Doctor Saint Father Soft III the lucky cat, 'call icy dip', British Girl Scout Starter Package variant M, lodestone, magic mirror (left half), tuppence

Movement:

1) Piccadilly Line, Westbound -> Green Park (spending tuppence)

2) [This one gets complicated. As discussed earlier, we doubled the Baggage Handling Fee at all stations with Green in the name. Therefore, c.f. 33.10...] I sacrifice my British Girl Scout Starter Package as a Sneaky Deed (fig. 1886), acquire the status "worried about the baggage retrieval system at Heathrow", and deploy His Holiness The Reverend Doctor Saint Father Soft III the lucky cat's lucky status to convert this status to the more locally relevant "Outraged, Overcharged, Underserved" (table 89) - he rolled a 36 which is more than enough to get me not just a success but also a bonus Complimentary Gift Kumquat (Imported). I begin abbreviated legal proceedings (60.12), and name Nemo Consequentiae as my counsel (granting him one spontaneously generated Wish Pawn, you're welcome Nemo). My status is currently a preposition hat trick, on top of that. The authorities at Green Park are forced to supply me with damages that come to one skate key, one Persian rug, six pounds, one euro, and a Blank Check. This alleviates my status and I convert it (11.9) to the string 'out, over, under' which goes in my inventory. I begin an Inventory Category for strings.

3) I formally declare my intention to remain on the Piccadilly Line until further notice and get two free moves out of this (50.112), which I use immediately to continue Westbound to Knightsbridge.

Other Actions:

I) I file a report by telegram with the British Girl Scouts (45.45) about my missing Starter Package. I collect a telegram receipt and unless something on table 3-12 happens I am due a replacement on my fifth turn.

II) I spend my lodestone to revive the Pacific salmon fishery (43.20). The lodestone is destroyed and everyone in the game who has eaten salmon in the last calendar year owes me one jar of coconut oil or an agreed-upon substitute.

III) With my telegram receipt, the fact that I still have Nemo on retainer, and His Holiness The Reverend Doctor Saint Father Soft III the lucky cat, I initiate the S'chism Tango (80.145) that will protect us from Holy War. I am possessed by the spirit of Martin Luther (478.9, "Spiritual Invasion By Historical Figures") and claim two pillars: i) zakkat ii) fasting. The telegram receipt is consumed. My legal relationship with Nemo ends at the conclusion of my turn. My cat is unchanged.

Ending Location: Knightsbridge
Ending Possessions: Strings: 'call icy dip', 'out, over, under' | Other: His Holiness The Reverend Doctor Saint Father Soft III the lucky cat, magic mirror (left half), one skate key, one Persian rug, six pounds, one euro, a Blank Check, Complimentary Gift Kumquat (Imported)
End Status: possessed by the spirit of Martin Luther; entitled, given the successful conclusion of the S'chism Tango, to the Pillars zakkat and fasting

[jalapeno_dude]

AndaisQ, is the wheeled cart in the burlap sack, or is it a separate part of your luggage? I ask because your wording is ambiguous and it will probably become important later.

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Current turn order, for reference:

1. Alicorn [just taken]
2. pistachi0n [you're up!]
3. Nemo Consequentiæ
4. jalapeno_dude
5. Lambda
6. mnemosynoid
7. AndaisQ

[pistachi0n]

Player Two, Turn Two
Starting Position: Highbury & Islington
Current Objective: Mornington Crescent
Current Possessions: baggage label

Movement

1) Victoria Line, Northbound ->Seven Sisters

Random Event: Time Portal!
Before time portal: Early afternoon
After time portal: Dusk

[AndaisQ]

The cart's in the sack, for reasons which should probably be obvious to anyone familiar with the Scurrier route.

[Nemo]

Player Three, Turn Two
Starting Position: Caledonian Road and Barnsbury
Current Objective: Mornington Crescent
Current Possessions: Wish Pawn, Baggage Label, boar's head erased

I exchange my azure label for a bowl of red lentil stew (Book 1, ch. 25), which I eat. This goes down in history as a terrible trade, see, e.g. Book 55 at 9:13 (citing 49 at 1:3) earning me an unlimited supply of Notoriety at the cost of enmity and eventual war between my descendants and all of yours. Fortunately, Holy War has already been prevented by the S'chism Tango.

Movement:

Overground, Eastbound -> Hackney Central

Oath: If anyone comes between me and the end of this line, I swear by Newcomb's Problem and Three-Player Tic-Tac-Toe that I will inconvenience you.

Ending Location: Hackney Central
Ending Possessions: Boar's head caboshed, Wish Pawn.
End Status: Unelect

[jalapeno_dude]

Player Four, Turn Two
Starting Position: Upper Holloway
Current Objective: Mornington Crescent (ultimate), Complete the S'chism Tango (immediate)
Current Possessions: no towel, trowel, cowl (wearing), 'u', Caliph Archimedes the great horned owl, 37975227936943673922808872755445627854565536638199 Karma
Current Status: Having Undergone Catharsis, Disguised (cowl)

[That Time Portal is a major inconvenience. I was planning to use a solar eclipse to complete the Tango (80.162), but that's no longer an option. It seems like my best option now is a more figurative eclipse (80.154)--which means, Nemo, that you're in my way. Sorry. You did get unlimited Notoriety with no drawbacks, though, so I'm not too sorry.]

[Normally my half of the Tango would fire before I could do anything, but I'm currently Disguised. That means I can optimize my Possession. This is going to be expensive, but I think it's worth it...]

Movement, Part 1

1) Out-of-station interchange:Overground (Upper Holloway) -> Northern Line (Archway)

2) Teleportation (by transferred epithet, Aminev 7.12): Northern Line (Archway) -> National Rail (Great Northern Route) (King's Cross St. Pancras), demoting Caliph Archimedes from Bubo virginianus to Bubo [I'll need to specify a species within the genus in the next 3 turns (see Aminev 13.63 (sidebar))] and sacrificing 10 million Karma for Bad Sport (Aminev 2.3) in ignoring "Line" and "Route".

[This was, surprisingly, cheaper than moving to Finsbury Park instead. I couldn't just take the Northern Line because I Angered the guards in Euston last turn.]

Purchases and Exchanges, Part 1

I) Exchange: Indulgences (71.4), reversed, to convert Karma -> money at the standard rate of 10,000:1, losing my Having Undergone Catharsis status in the process. [As the Tango has already begun, I don't have to worry about a reversed Indulgence untriggering the Reformation.] I'll take only the 2015 UK personal allowance of £10,600. [I have too much movement this turn to risk incurring a Bureaucracy Slowdown (32.58). If I make any more money, I'll immediately be taxed the amount over my allowance at 20%.]

[I don't yet have to tithe 2.5% of my money to Alicorn because the Tango has not yet ended and thus Zakkat is not yet in effect]

Movement, Part II

3) National Rail (Great Northern Route), Northbound (by Filthy Lucre (4.7) [paying the Disguised Penalty (4.10.3)]): King's Cross St. Pancras -> [24 intermediate stops] -> Cambridge

Purchases and Exchanges, Part II

II) Exchange: Clothing (6.2): Remove the cowl, converting Disguised -> Vaguely Guilty, finally initiating my half of the S'chism Tango (80.145). Given my location, I am Possessed by the Spirit of Ludwig Wittgenstein (478.9) and claim the remaining three pillars (Shahadah, Salat, Hajj).

III) Gambit: Effectualize (71.8): Put Hajj into effect early, gambling my remaining Karma that I'll complete the Tango. [I don't think I have another option here; 'u' is too short a string to be accepted and the trowel is simply too valuable to risk losing!]

Movement, Part C

4) Teleportation (by Hajj): Cambridge -> Hackney Central

Interaction

A) Use Philosophy of Language [from Wittgenstein] on Nemo Consequentiæ ("Am I between you and the end of the line? It depends on whether 'between' refers to an open or closed interval..."), Perplexing him and moving ahead of him in the turn order. [You can choose how to resolve the argument. I'll (unsurprisingly) argue for "open", so that your Oath is not triggered; if you want to argue the other side you'll of course need to spend the necessary Willpower or actually convince me of your side.]

Ending Position: Hackney Central
Ending Possessions: no towel, trowel, cowl, 'u', Caliph Archimedes the horned owl (species unspecified), 37975227936943673922808872755445627854565420638199 Karma (gambled), £10,483
Ending Status: Vaguely Guilty, Possessed by the Spirit of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Owner of the Pillar Hajj, Entitled, Given the Successful Conclusion of the S'chism Tango, to the Pillars Shahadah and Salat

[Alicorn, I'm of course attempting to end the Tango by Eclipsing you via passing you in the turn order (80.154.3). We can achieve this next turn if you Delay (2.4) or otherwise swap places with pistachi0n in the turn order and I then manage to pass you.]

[Alicorn]

Jalapeno, it's "hajj", not "haaj".

The turn order swap can technically kick in if I take any position that is after you in the list of turn orders. I have one or two ideas...