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[Macavity]

Re: not Harlem 125th street

[Flynn]

There is room there for Croup-Vandemar - however, I'm going to invoke a related but slightly riskier strategy, the Door maneuver.

Skirting at the very edge of the rules, this takes us to the little known, and currently unused:

BRITISH MUSEUM

[duckiemonster]

Given the difficulties presented by engineering works over this long Bank Holiday weekend, my moves are indeed limited...

...however, as we appear to be invoking the use of the 'supernatural' rules of 1907, we'll use this lovely sunny Saturday as an excuse to zoom over to the tube station that never was for a drink in the beer garden.

BULL & BUSH.

[idlemichael]

Duckie's masterful usage of the Amphersand Engagement not only hauls the action into the game's mid-phase, but also (unfortunately) leaves me with only one viable move: ELEPHANT & CASTLE.

Damnation, I hate it when my play is oh-so limited...

[dps05]

[mac_monkey]

Which leaves me to do the Henman-Huffler setup of 2006 (This game was only played in the last month or so)


I have no choice but to call MORNINGTON CRESCENT IN 3


UXBRIDGE

[dps05]

Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't the Henman-Huffler setup was only playable when three-or-more minor royals from two-or-more different countries are present? I can't remember the exact reference at present so I'll let trust that you have it correct.

However...

I believe I can cut off your "MC in 3" and declare my own Mornington Crescent in 4 with a crisp 'Sloaney Pony' popularised by Lord Wellington-Barbour during the 1980s. I call

SLOANE SQUARE

[duckiemonster]

I believe that means that, as I know at least 3 people with fake Louis Vuitton handbags, I can play the 'Topshop' thrust, leaving us in

OXFORD CIRCUS

[mac_monkey]

But I don't think that cut off the MC in 4. Which now makes it MC in 3...



Ooooooer! :S

[myf]

Aha! I can cancel the MC in 3 with the Foss-Barton Inverse Stack (Southern Federation 1902), and will merrily trundle things off to PIMLICO

[Macavity]

Which sets things up for the Marquis De Carabas Counter, which rockets me along the Underground as if it were a rollercoaster, until we arrive at:

Down Street

And - dare I say it? - Mornington Crescent in two!

[Flynn]

"You're all very stupid, and don't know anything at all" - to paraphrase the Abbot. This, of course, does two things. The Abbot has spoken, therefore MC in 2, 3, or even 4 is no longer possible.

Second, we come to the dreaded...

BLACKFRIARS

[Macavity]

*shakes fist*

Damn you! Damn you and your Black Friar Backlash!

This calls for the License to Kill Counter-Attack - and I call:

BOND STREET

Get out of that one, will you . . . (and MC in 007)

[duckiemonster]

Elementary, my dear Macavity. I shall simply use the move made by the great Moriarty in the epic game of 1904, the "Counter-Detective".

BAKER STREET

[oliverkeers13]

Ah, but that invites me to respond with the "Hidden In Plain Sight" manouvre, and captalise on the weakness of the "counter-detective" move. I am sure that you'll remember that this same move brought about Obediah Brush's catastrophic decline in the 1927 game, played by Bernhard Schroedinger:

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE (and the motion provides MC in 5)