Mornington Crescent

[pistachi0n]

Player 1, Turn 4
Starting Position: Upminster
Current objective: Mornington Crescent
Starting time: Dark

Movement

1. District Line: Upminster -> Upminster Bridge -> Hornchurch -> Elm Park -> Dagenham East -> Dagenham Heathway ->Becontree -> Upney -> Barking -> East Ham -> Upton Park -> Plaistow

"Purchases"

1. I steal a bottle of water and a coffee table book from a shop nearby. I drink the water and keep the empty water bottle as a storage container.

I take a nap on a bench, when I wake up, the sun is shining bright.

Ending Position: Plaistow
Ending possessions: Empty water bottle, coffee table book
Ending time: Noon

[Lambda]

I believe the CTO is as follows:

1. pistachi0n
2. jalapeno_dude
3. Nemo Consequentiæ
4. Lambda
5. Alicorn
6. AndaisQ

[jalapeno_dude]

[Indeed. I won't be able to take my turn until much later tonight, unfortunately.]

[jalapeno_dude]

Player Two, Turn Four
Starting Position: Mile End
Current Objective: Mornington Crescent
Current Possessions: no towel, trowel, cowl, Caliph Archimedes the horned owl (species unspecified), 37975227936943673922808872755445627854565420638199 Karma, the Pillars Shahadah, Salat, and Hajj, £10,483, small wheeled cart, The Last Mitre (worn), Boar's head caboshed, Title of Nobility (at Landgrave level or above; otherwise unspecified), Permanent and Retroactive Tax Exemption, Little Red Book
Current Status: Possessed by the Spirit of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walking on Air, Rumored to Have Unpalatable Political Leanings

Resolution

A) I've already incorporated my trade with Nemo Consequentiæ and the results of AndaisQ's action above.
B) I [stupidly] forgot to discuss the particular Title of Nobility I wanted before Nemo Consequentiæ declared the Trade complete. As per Aminev 73.483.5C, I am forced to adopt the lowest allowed Title, namely Landgrave itself. I therefore assume jurisdiction over the Landgraviate of Zutphen, and as consequence am granted Imperial Immediacy. [I rolled randomly on Table Q of the Sidebar to 7.486.]

Movement, Part 1

1) Flight (by Status): Mile End -> Seven Sisters

Actions, Part 1

I) The Last Mitre enables me to immediately assume control of the Rectory established by AndaisQ on Turn One. I am now its Rector and thus entitled to the position of Archbishop. I am now the Landgrave-Archbishop of Zutphen.

Movement, Part II

2) Teleportation (by Religion): Seven Sisters -> Bow Church
3) Out of Station Interchange: Docklands Light Railway (Bow Church) -> Hammersmith & City Line (Bow Road) [I'm using #70AFAF for the Docklands Light Railway, which doesn't seem to be in Alicorn's list of color codes.]
4) Hammersmith & City Line, Eastbound: Bow Road -> Bromley-by-Bow -> West Ham -> Plaistow

Actions, Part II

II) Seeing pistachi0n napping, I plant the Little Red Book on her and use my Titles to Make A Commotion (Aminev 5.3.11), Drawing a Crowd around her and transferring my Rumored to Have Unpalatable Political Leanings to her.
III) I remove my Mitre, put on my cowl to become Disguised, and slip away, passing pistachi0n in the Turn Order. [This is the second time I have become Disguised, and I will have to pay the Penalty next turn. At that time I will also update my Karma to reflect my actions.]

Ending Position: Plaistow
Ending Possessions: no towel, trowel, cowl (worn), Caliph Archimedes the horned owl (species unspecified), 37975227936943673922808872755445627854565420638199 Karma, the Pillars Shahadah, Salat, and Hajj, £10,483, small wheeled cart, The Last Mitre, Boar's head caboshed, Landgraviate-Archbishopric of Zutphen, Imperial Immediacy, Permanent and Retroactive Tax Exemption
Ending Status: Possessed by the Spirit of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walking on Air, Disguised

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CTO:
1. jalapeno_dude
2. pistachi0n
3. Nemo Consequentiæ
4. Lambda
5. Alicorn
6. AndaisQ

[Nemo]

I'd like to remind everyone that there's a monarch in play, so the effects of all the political modifiers are the ones listed in Arc 8. I'm sure everyone was already assuming that; just wanted to avoid confusion later.

Anyway, I request a boon from the Wish Queen. It becomes a mere Queen, but I am now in second place and cannot fall below that without interference from something of omnipotence level of at least 0.2.

I hear the Words that Humankind Was Not Meant To Speak, which teleports me to Tottenham Court Road. (Book 7, Chapter 9.) I board the Northern Line, Northbound, but I'm Perplexed on a square-numbered turn, so I accidentally inflict a random status effect on myself. Having rolled a 119, I am now Cryonically Frozen. I become incapable of movement at anything other than my current train's normal schedule, and am dead for all purposes listed only on odd-numbered pages.

Movement: Tottenham Court Road -> Goodge Street -> Warren Street.

[Lambda]

Player Four, Turn Four
Starting Position: Edmonton Green
Starting Objective: Mornington Crescent
Starting Possessions: portmanteau, corduroy skirt (worn), Oyster card (£16 12s)
Starting Status: Refreshed

Movement

1) I take the Overground south from Edmonton Green through Seven Sisters to Hackney Downs.

Purchases and Exchanges

I) I invoke my portmanteau to form "Hackney Downs" into "Downey", collecting a goose-down feather (Volume IX, table 7.a) and -20 Karma for the strained wordplay.

Ending Position: Hackney Downs
Ending Objective: Mornington Crescent
Ending Possessions: portmanteau (tapped), corduroy skirt (worn), Oyster card (£11 18s), goose-down feather, -20 Karma
Ending Status: Biding

[Alicorn]

Starting Location: Vauxhall
Starting Possessions: Strings: 'call icy dip' | Other: His Holiness The Reverend Doctor Saint Father Soft III the lucky cat (in abeyance in Libya in an activist capacity), magic mirror (left half), one Persian rug, bowl of petunias [this transformation was Inexplicable and therefore was not reversed with the rest of andaisq's turn], zakkat (slightly used), fasting, Certificate of Good Credit
Starting Status: irregularly baptized

Movement:

1) Victoria Line, Northbound, Vauxhall -> Warren Street, paid in Good Credit. [I am able to escape baggage handling issues at Green Park via deployment of fasting according to an unorthodox application of Little Used Options And The Dances To Do Alongside Them, 64.88.]

2) Transfer to Northern Line at Warren Street. I can do this as a free action without racking up more credit draws because Warren is my father's middle name. [f I need to get another vouch from my sister let me know; my father himself would be somewhat more difficult to get ahold of.]

Actions:

I) I powder my magic mirror to turn my Persian rug into a flying carpet.

II) I mail my petunias and the flying carpet express to His Holiness The Reverend Doctor Saint Father Soft III the lucky cat, who reads in them the flower language meaning "your presence soothes me", delegates the management of Libya to a trusted ally (19.15), and takes the flying carpet to be at my side in Warren Street.

Ending position: Warren Street
Ending Possessions: Strings: 'call icy dip' | Other: His Holiness The Reverend Doctor Saint Father Soft III the lucky cat, flying carpet, zakkat (slightly used), fasting (gently deployed), Certificate of Good Credit (55/407 points accrued)

[AndaisQ]

As three days have passed without a response from andaisq, he is declared missing, presumed dead. This may be related to his setting a polyester baseball cap on fire in the middle of Stratford. His turn is vacated, and the next round may begin.

[Lambda]

[Two down, five to go.

I mean four. Four to go is what I meant.]

[pistachi0n]

Player 1, Turn 5
Starting Position: Plaistow
Current objective: Mornington Crescent
Starting time: Noon
Starting possessions: Empty water bottle, coffee table book

Movement

1. Hammersmith & City, Westbound: Plaistow -> West Ham -> Bromley-by-Bow

Actions

1. I get off the train at Bromley-by-Bow, and soon notice that everyone is staring at me. "There's a rumor going around that she has unpalatable political leanings," I hear someone whisper.

2. I think for a minute. Nonsense. I'm not even registered to vote in this strange country. Alas, I am too ignorant to have political leanings, whether palatable or not.

3. I observe other people pointing and whispering. I nervously squeeze my empty water bottle.

Encounters and Conversation

1. A stranger directly approaches me. "We don't like it when people with unpalatable political leanings come round near our train stop."

2. I respond by explaining my ignorance.

3. Stranger: "That's not what my sources tell me. We like to punish those with unpalatable political leanings by making them tow a wagon with 37 kilograms of bricks at all times."

Ending position: Bromley-by-bow
Ending possessions: Empty water bottle, coffee table book, wagon, bricks
Ending time: Early afternoon
Weight of bricks: 37 kilograms
Status: Rumored to have unpalatable political leanings, confused, and dragging around a wagon full of bricks