Mornington Crescent

[Lambda]

Player Five, Turn Two
Starting Position: Upper Holloway
Starting Objective: Mornington Crescent
Starting Possessions: portmanteau, change of clothes (corduroy skirt), £20, towel
Starting Status: Grateful [thank you jalapeno_dude]

Movement

1) Hitchhike to Cockfosters (Aminev 9.13.b, Transfictional Artefacts). [invoking the towel but not expending it]

Purchases and Exchanges

I) Purchase: £20 -> Oyster card (Aminev 5.5, Public Services). [I wanted to do this at the beginning of my turn, but after dropping in the turn order my delay was too high.]

II) Exchange: Linguistics (Aminev 14.15, Lexical Transformations): Grateful -> a grate, which I open to drop into the sewers.

Ending Position: Cockfosters, sewers
Ending Objective: Mornington Crescent
Ending Possessions: portmanteau, change of clothes (corduroy skirt), towel, Oyster card (£20)
Ending Status: Smelly

[jalapeno_dude]

Have fixed the inexcusable typos in my post above; thanks for pointing them out, Alicorn. I suppose that's what I get for attempting to spell things myself late at night instead of copying-and-pasting.

[Alicorn]

It has been mnemosynoid's turn for six hours and no post has been made. As what I believe to be an unobjectionably straightforward online adaptation of the Scottish Precedent (appendix N) I challenge mnemosynoid to a Chocolate Duel for this place in the turn order (which will, incidentally, technically place me "after" jalapeno in turn order for the obvious consequences wrt S'chism Tango).

My opening volley in the Chocolate Duel, should mnemosynoid choose to accept rather than default or invoke handicap rules, is six coconut-milk caramel drops and one peanut butter cup (artisanal). This will cause mnemosynoid to lose by default in the next one hour unless I'm misreading something about the interaction of caramel with my status relative to the British Girl Scouts (14.87). Please, no one help mnemosynoid metagame about my chocolate-related weaknesses; it would be unsportsmanlike.

[jalapeno_dude]

Ugh. It seems that, as a result of my Vaguely Guilty status, I am impelled by the Spirit of Fair Play (Appendix Q) to point out that it is Debatable (Appendix F) whether the one-hour countdown starts from the point the challenge is issued or the point the challenge is received (obviously this is not a distinction that makes much of a difference in the typical "offline" case). I am already participating in an Argument with Nemo Consequentiæ (at least potentially, pending his decision), precluding my action here, and in any case it is to my advantage that a Debate does not occur, but mnemosynoid (or, for that matter, anyone but Alicorn) can start the Debate by making a relevant offering (listed at F.7.2, sidebar, though see the added possibilities in the Errata, subsection H.4).

[Alicorn]

Consider that it is impossible to verify whether or not mnemosynoid has received the challenge at any given time! Rules that are in principle unenforceable are dispreferred under any rational reading of the Charter Document section 3. (Not Technically Debating, here, just commenting on whether or not it's really that debatable in the first place.)

[jalapeno_dude]

[I've fulfilled my Obligation to the Spirit (of Fair Play, that is, not Ludwig), and my Status will change to that effect next Turn, but with my Moderator Hat planted firmly on my head (it's the traditional propeller beanie, and it's quite blustery today) I'll say that it seems at the very least Arguable, if perhaps not Debatable, that a player who has not logged on to these Fora in (at the time of writing, according to her profile) 21 hours and 51 minutes should be considered Incapacitated and hence unable to receive your challenge; the Debate would presumably hinge on whether she should instead be considered Stalling.]

[Nemo]

Despite the fact that jalapeno_dude is in an Argument with me, I'm not going to argue with him. (Appendix 2 to Appendix F; Deloping.) Since we're on the same point it's not between according to the definition I learned in grade school geometry class, but Aminev predates Euclid so we can't necessarily rely on that. It might depend on whether you're obstructing me from continuing eastward; which direction are you facing right now? If you had taken the High Road or even taken the Low it'd be obvious, but since you teleported it doesn't even go without saying that you currently have a face. (You might be Off Your Head, page 170 of the second rule in the famous five-part trilogy of six. Or maybe just facing north.)

I attempt to summon the Spirit of the Letter of the Law to verify that the Oath means what I meant it to mean, but given my status as Perplexed it instead argues that I never specified which end. Sorry everyone, this was entirely my mistake, but if you move to or through any station on the Overground before I get a chance to declare the Oath fulfilled (excluding Hackney Central, and only if you haven't been on the line continuously since I swore the thing) then I will have to act against you or risk becoming Haunted by an ethereal stone tablet.

[mnemosynoid]

Well this is aggravating. As one of the drawbacks of online adaptions, I now find myself to be in Forced Stalemate due to plays I did not see until it was too late! I would have gladly accepted the challenge to a Chocolate Duel, but my conscience forces me to admit that I have unfortunately eaten chocolate after the time of the challenge, since I did not see it until now. As obnoxious as this adaption side-effect is, I know the relevant rules (Section 4f, Section 5b, and Appendix 8, to name a few) and know that I have no choice but to leave the game. My possessions, of course, go to whoever first takes Warren Street under the conditions listed in W.3.1.6. Well, as Causes for Downfall go, I guess chocolate isn't the worst option.

[Alicorn]

...jalapeno, put on your mod hat and tell me whether this counts as Default, Handicap, or Time Travel Obviation Of Duel.

[jalapeno_dude]

[mnemosynoid, hope to see you back next game!]

Moderator beanie on. Certainly it's not Default, since that can only be achieved by player choice (N.5), and it's similarly not a Handicap since the Duel has now ended. I do take your point regarding Time Travel, but I think the situation that comes closest here is Fatal Zugzwang. In any case, I'll rule that Alicorn has Prevailed in the Duel, and may now take mnemosynoid's former place in the turn order. [I'll let you spell out the obvious consequences.]