A little Mornington Crescent - anyone care to join in?

[OverAndAbove]

I just fancy a change of focus.

I'll jump right in with Great Portland Street - I think I'm entitled to do that, with it being beyond the autumn equinox, but before Halloween?

Any takers?

Thank you. I feel somewhat overwhelmed, as I've never called MC before. Gosh.

And whoops.

So overwhelmed you can't start a new game? Or are you just thinking of your first move?

[hopeful]

Good stuff Maud!

I think I started the last game. Would MooncupGoddess like to do the honours now?

Gosh Maud... this is a real honour.

I'm going to start with the station where it all began in 1863:

Paddington

LOVELY start, Goddess!

May I suggest a Down-Up Response to take us to...

Westferry

Excellent move! Redolent of the Cumberland Championship winning move of 1954. As dusk is now falling

Waterloo

Did we x-post, Maud?

Either way, the Tuesday Frowling allows a quasi-plump through to Aldgate (Metropolitan NOT Circle, obviously, before anyone waves their copy of Tripp at me!)

So we did - three seconds apart!

Tricky. However, all is not lost - my battered copy of the 1909 Imperial Manoeuvres suggests a subterranean slide to Rotherhithe.

Rotherhithe is a cheeky move in a game like this when the early signs are that the Mousetrap Continuum will have to be considered.

For the moment it seems obvious that I must make a Brill to enable me to say Mudchute. I say that with slight reservations as to the above, though, as I'm sure you'll all appreciate.

In which case, I'll attempt a Sub-Lateral Chim to

Theydon Bois

I think an early Grimmal may help here to free up the whole Central line and block the District for eight minutes at least:

Bond Street

A Grimmal? Well, I assume that all current players are domiciled in the EU and so it's permissible until the 18th of this month. Anyway, I'll risk a Triple Thrip to

Chancery Lane

It's the 16th, realistically, with lead times being what they are... Still OK, but tight.

Chancery Lane plus a Grimmal allows me to play one of my absolute favourites – a mid-Bartlett to ...

South Harrow

I'll complete the Bartlett and offer a reverse semi-bind into Willesden Green...

You're very good at the old sharp intake of breath, Headless Lady, especially considering you haven't got a head.

Still, I am undaunted! We need to open up the game a little... so, a counter-play to Haggerston.

Nice and simple: lateral biff to Marble Arch.

Must say it's a pleasure to watch you guys Crescent. My family always play according to Priaprims rules, but it's so refreshing to see a modern game.

Welcome, Kate - always nice to see an MNHQer drop in.

Your family must be more civilised than ours; my relationship with my cousins has never recovered from the great Priaprims fiasco of Christmas 2004. The issue as I recall was whether one can legitimately make a diagonal undershift from Monument when Bank is in alt. Suffice it to say that things got nasty very quickly and one of my cousins made a comment about the quality of my Seville marmalade that I will NEVER forget.

Anyway, mustn't dwell. Given that today is 13.11.13 we can glide elegantly to Kentish Town.

The joy of Priaprims, though, is that you can actually integrate them (well, most of them: doesn't work with the Halfwards) into more modern procedures.

If Kentish Town is in play at this point I assume we're observing Krepp? With that in mind I'm going to Sloane Square.

Who's observing Krepp??? On a Wednesday, this close to Christmas!!!

Mad, I tells ya!

Well if we're using Priaprims, I take it no-one will mind a diagonal shit to

Morden

Kentish Town after my biff to Marble Arch, Albert, clearly indicates that we're using Krepp. I'm saying nothing about the timing.

Now, a diagonal shit and shift are two very different things. If you definitely intended to play the former then I can only applaud. The latter, with Osman & Pupp ascendant as they obviously are here, would be more difficult.

Assuming it's a diagonal shit, I'm saying Finchley Road & Frognal.

This is what happens with Priaprims. Tone-lowering all over the place. Don't say I didn't warn you.