Who wants to play ""Carrollton, Texas International Bus Terminal"?
I recently uncovered a scroll in the west Texas desert that had an outline for the game, "Carrollton, Texas International Bus Terminal." Unfortunately, many of the rules were eaten (the scroll was on cattle parchment), but I'm certain the game is based on "Mornington Crescent." [Wikipedia has an informative article...Googling example games might help as well]
here is a rules site:
http://www.mornington-crescent-rule.fsnet.co.uk/mornington-crescent-rule.htm
Luckily we are beginning after the Winter Solstice which means that Turlinton's Reversals will be in effect for most moves. The game is on and, per Catbert's Revised Statutes we are now in:
Elko, Nevada
by
wootvan
asked 2 years ago
@prettywootprincess: Okay, since the crazy kids didn't provide a reference, before it gets to be too confusing, here's what launched the game (it's towards the bottom).
Here an excellent repository of games: http://www.phespirit.info/morningtoncrescent/
Invoking the Aero-Nautical Variation of 1933, we're moving to...
Salt Lake City, Utah
Due entirely to the natural law of Thermodynamics, and a silent invocation of Breathing Under Water Apparatus.
Just follow the Dunwich River (which is nothing at all like the Yellow Brick Road).
Dunwich, England
@shrdlu, that's a pretty sophisticated move so early in the game. I'll make a clockwise, lateral pass and hope nobody invokes The Glass Limits.
Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Good grief! And I thought playing The Game was strange. I'm going to get a cup of coffee and cluelessly watch the fun unfold.
@lavikinga: I will join you in watching if we can switch to Merlot (or champagne).
@sand4me: Deal. Merlot for me please. I must admit I have never developed an appreciation for champagne.
I would like to submerge and go to Atlantis. If that fails, then I guess I'll have to settle for Tottenham Court Road.
@sgoman5674: Hmm...I believe that the Vertical (or Anti-Vertical) Clause from the International City rule set prevents Atlantis. The same rule set limits moves strictly to cities, unless, of course, you are invoking a Location Detail exception. In that case, Tottenham Court Road is perfectly acceptable.
That leads us right to:
Mornington Crescent!
YES! No...wait...that's not the end.
@wootvan: Crap, Need to remember to refresh the page before I post.
I don't understand this game. I will try to figure it out tonight when I get home.
@jokofoto: Since the alcohol has changed to merlot, I declare a move to Bordeaux, France. A bottle of 1976 Château Lafite Rothschild anyone?
Trying to follow the rules is futile.
I would like to sail from Bordeaux on the Garonne River into the Baie of Biscay to
La Rochelle, France.
Dumas wrote about this city where the 3 (actually 4) Musketeers fought the Huguenots.
Is it too early to vote someone off? I suggest @mjc613, for violating Roget's Rule of Order of the Garter, 2nd Leg, raise you all by one bottle Château Mouton-Rothschild, and via the Germanic Hapsberg Court of England, move to the Habsburg Castle in Switzerland.
(Swiss Canton of Aargau for the delicate and less erudite)
Tais-toi @shrdlu and a bottle of Tokay to you!!!
Over the river and through the woods to [url=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szentendre]Szentendre, Hungary [/url]
@mjc613: Nice try. No bbcode, no html, just text. Hah. THWACK
second try did not work
Szentendre, Hungary (see post above for more info)
I vote for Ireland, we can dumb mjc613 off in the North Sea for some surfing. and I have no idea how to play this game........I just like Ireland...... although I want to head to Donegal......the rest of you will probably want to go to dublin to here: http://www.guinness.com/
@shrdlu: Since you cite Roget's Rule, 2nd leg, I would have to disagree.
However I cite the Law of Elba, the Napoleonic Chapter, Line 17, which states that any mention of dead French authors calls for banishment on the island of Elba, permanent lest we arrive on Elba.
Congratulations @mjc613, your not banned, just banished.
I might reverse it though if you gave me some catnip, since you now smell of yummy flounder.
@hobbit: Since Turlington Reversals are in effect that means you are correct and we are now in Donegal, Ireland.
@catbertthegreat said "I might reverse it though if you gave me some catnip..."
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your allegiance to CTG) any use of the word "nip" puts you "in knip" for three turns...you must wait and suffer any injustices for three turns and then you are welcome back.
Just to show I am not completely heartless, I will conjure up the Schwartz Algorithm (c. 1932) and bring us to Spain--specifically
San Martín de Montalbán
you will all hurt me but I think we should all be forced to find some souvenier to go with each destination to post as a deal.
Obviously, @hobbit, you have not examined the Third District Federal Court's Decision on "Hasbro v The Internet" §: 4-Óı‡ß¶®ç2-215
However, we can amend this to suggest (but not make immutable) that players either offer a deal pertinent to their location or have a link to something of note there. For my location, I will offer this:
San Martín de Montalbán
@wootvan: Montressor, the rule of the Cask of Amontillado forces me to drop off this fine and elegant Port (por le small creature de la furry feet):
Vastly inferior, and yet vageuly amusing.
The Rule of Spontaneous Combustion, presented by John Hopcroft in his examination of Polynomial Time and NP Completeness, deposits the fearless crew in the Douro Valley, Portugal.
@wootvan: wait did we move again?
this is for mine. If you are nice to me I might could even get the group to join us for a bit.
http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/c4b96d00-61b2-4c90-8602-25fefeeaa7a4/take-me-home-celtic-thunder
It is not necessary to post retroactive deals...however, I am currently being plagued by mysterious spam and a rash on my ass which spells out the letters "CTG." Please make two more moves or I fear my life will be endangered.
I cite the Raining of the Cloud phenomena, that allows me to return before I should.
I call for a search for the legendary El Dorado and move to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Carnaval anybody?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Carnival
@shrdlu: Try some ointment on that rash, it should go away.
@catbertthegreat: I claim the Disturbance in the Force, that Mystery of Anycasted Packets ricocheting in the Pacific, laughing with joy (because packets make me deliriously happy), leaving you this gift of far greater worth than that Southern Mardi Gras.
Mountain View, California
@catbertthegreat: I don't have a rash. How disgusting that you confuse me with that socially inept @wootvan, who already smells of rotten flounder.
@wootvan: here put some make up on that rash it is unsightly
@shrdlu: Sorry, the names on the side of all the comments are starting to blur together.
@catbertthegreat: Get out of the "not really" port that you just bought and find us a new destination.
@shrdlu, @hobbit: I would like to cover over the smell of rotten flounder, so I declare a move to Paso Robles, California for the wonderful hot springs.
http://www.riveroakshotsprings.com/
The water smells awful, as do parts of the town because of the underground spring bubbles up in places. I love it though.
Deals on an inn the pipes in the water for their hot tubs:
http://reservations.ihotelier.com/crs/p_index.cfm?hotelid=6528
Well, the rash has cleared and I've got a passel of cats to herd down to Lake Tahoe. Did you know that Paso Robles has a direct connect catamaran to our next destination? This is made possible by the Dwiltson Pronouncements Ruling of 1963 amended by the Dogwood Conventional Reversal Pact.
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/DESIGN/hotel-of-doom-012808
Pyongyang, North Korea
oops, just nuked Pyongyang - sorry..
@wootvan: While dreamers dream of mighty fires, we invoke the august might of the Central Intelligence Agency, and using Rule 72 of the CIA Factbook, we transform ourselves from Communists to Buddhists, gaining enlightenment, and altitude.
Lhasa, Tibet.
Om Tare Tuttare Santa Ra Hri Svaha
@shrdlu: However our monastery ran out of tea and following the orders of the long dead tea master Lu Yu, we travel to Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, for a cake of the rare purple tip puerh tea.
http://www.imperialtea.com/Imperial-Tribute-Harvest-Purple-Tip-Puerh-P814.aspx
@catbertthegreat: Some of the players are east coast, and seem to have faded away. Rather than taking a turn out of turn, so to speak, I'm completely bemused to relate that there is an actual "Mornington Crescent: Annual Get Together 2010" and I wish that I could somehow attend.
http://www.mornington-crescent-rule.fsnet.co.uk/mornington-crescent.htm
@wootvan, wherever you are, thanks. Fun so far, and challenging (although we are fast running out of cities, and it's interesting to see how we may or may not get to Carrollton).
@shrdlu: It has been fun, however I doubt that we would ever get to Carrollton. The worse part is Christmas is around the corner which means everyone will be off with their families till the 26th, with me gone till the 27th, though I'll try pop in if I can.
Would love to go to the Crescent meetup.
Still no date posted for the Annual Get Together. We must all go there to make them commit to one. So we travel to
Camden Town, London, England, UK, EU
@catbertthegreat: I think we need to go help NORAD
where is NORAD?
NORAD's Santa Tracking Workshop is at
Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
Although no player called me on it, I am back after a two day banishment (in Knip) for violating Title 28, Chapter 45, Section 673 of Lawson's Bylaws. I apologize to all whom I violated, especially the residents of the primate research center at Alvin Community College in Brazoria County, Texas.
We now must visit Provincia del Pastaza, Ecuador...here is the Governor
http://concurso2008.magazinedigital.com/media/g_387903690.JPG
Provincia del Pastaza, Ecuador
@wootvan: The violated primates insist on the invocation of Rule 17, Article 13, of the Arthropodo Phylum Extraordinaire. Bowing to pressure from Jerusalem, we are borne on arctic winds to visit another Governor, looming large in the desolate wastelands...
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/05/10/potato-bug-36/
Los Angeles, California (Home of Ahhhnold).
@shrdlu: I am bored in EL AY........ How about we head on down to Key Largo to stay in the under sea lodge
@hobbit: A command is issued and Mr. Sulu engages at Warp Factor 5 to Riverside, Iowa.
@catbertthegreat: Considering we're only a few months away from the fortieth anniversary of the immortal statement: "Houston, we've got a problem"
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/04/dayintech_0413
I invoke the Rule of Physics and the Law of Gravity (and for the sake of accuracy, point out that the true quote was "Hey, Houston, we've had a problem here").
Houston, Texas.
I am in Houston and it is MEGA-COLD here! Time for warmer weather. Let's try some virgin territory, like Virgin Gorda in the BVI.
http://www.frommers.com/destinations/slideshow.cfm?destID=305
@mjc613: Bonus points to you for observing the "Requisite Island Stipulation" after a ten day lull. The only requirement for redemption, of course, is that since you chose the Virgin Islands, you must prove your virginity.
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