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Mornington Crescent: All bow before visiblehowl and ChooChoo Bear!
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Mornington Crescent
Yes, Mornington Crescent, the forum game with rules dating back to the Tudor regime. Over the next several days twenty forumers will vie for the chance to be the winner, winners, or possibly even intermediate success buddies depending on the rule set.
RULES:
You should all already know how the game works. In the off chance you don't, please check your local book store to see if they still have a player's manual (preferably color version) still in print for the details. Each day a variant of the fifth edition rules will be introduced and at the end of the day the appropriate scores tallied. The end will occur when I or one of the judges declares Mornington Crescent. Lowest score shall see a player eliminated as well as an adorable animal entombed in the fashion of the judge's liking. Players can also be eliminated through other means such as disqualification for getting caught cheating or being eaten by a puma. Players are allowed and encouraged to sponsor their own cute animals. Time looping is strictly forbidden.
The judges will post occasionally to critique performance, offer suggestions, and add in the occasional rule. I suggest not crossing them as they're all well versed in puppy crushing. The judges are as follows:
Head Judge/Co Host: Frosteey
Judge #2: Gim
Judge #3: Senjutsu
Feel free to manipulate the judges to your own ends. Due to a much busier schedule than when I signed up Frosteey will be cohosting should I not have the time because I am defending the free world or getting it on.
Signup posts in bold lime, clarifcations in bold orange, new rules will be posted in bold blue.
Spoiler for those with no sense of risk or humor who have to know exactly how to play:
Roster:
1. Oboro and Shnukims
2. Feral and Miguel
3. Aegis and Hoot
4. James and Bird
5. deadonthestreet and Fluffy Orange Thing.
6. Elldren and Skippy
7. duallin and Fluffers
8. Malkor and Crab
9. Daedalus and Clippy
10. visiblehowl and ChooChooBear
11. Kilroy and Clippy
12. eeccccoo tthhee ddoollpphhiinn and Kitty D. Kat
13. Variable and Kotchka
14. Medopine and Osh Kosh
15. BobCesca and Farah
16. Cyvros and Dibblin
17. Gosling and VEU
18. Arasaki and Barley
19. cj iwakura and Nemo
20. MrMonroe and Douglas
Entombed animal example:
If you don't hate cute animals you won't screw up.
Clarifications:
Shanks are a type of meat pie pound in the lower Brooklyn area that are excellent hobo bait.
Day five variant:
Lightning Round
No holds bar
Animal required for all pictures
Playing dirty is highly encouraged
The stage is Paris. Snobbery, wine, and arbitrary judging shall reign
Day 1: Barley pays up
Day 2: Oboro resigns and a tie results in dead kitties.
Day 3: Unfortunate events and grues.
Day 4: Light treason and dead geckos.
Day 5: Debauchery and police brutality.
Day 6: The Indecent Behavior of Owls.
Day 7: Lots of eating.
Yes, Mornington Crescent, the forum game with rules dating back to the Tudor regime. Over the next several days twenty forumers will vie for the chance to be the winner, winners, or possibly even intermediate success buddies depending on the rule set.
RULES:
You should all already know how the game works. In the off chance you don't, please check your local book store to see if they still have a player's manual (preferably color version) still in print for the details. Each day a variant of the fifth edition rules will be introduced and at the end of the day the appropriate scores tallied. The end will occur when I or one of the judges declares Mornington Crescent. Lowest score shall see a player eliminated as well as an adorable animal entombed in the fashion of the judge's liking. Players can also be eliminated through other means such as disqualification for getting caught cheating or being eaten by a puma. Players are allowed and encouraged to sponsor their own cute animals. Time looping is strictly forbidden.
The judges will post occasionally to critique performance, offer suggestions, and add in the occasional rule. I suggest not crossing them as they're all well versed in puppy crushing. The judges are as follows:
Head Judge/Co Host: Frosteey
Judge #2: Gim
Judge #3: Senjutsu
Feel free to manipulate the judges to your own ends. Due to a much busier schedule than when I signed up Frosteey will be cohosting should I not have the time because I am defending the free world or getting it on.
Signup posts in bold lime, clarifcations in bold orange, new rules will be posted in bold blue.
Spoiler for those with no sense of risk or humor who have to know exactly how to play:
Mornington Crescent isn't a real game per se. The rules are made up by the "players" and the only way to really win this is to impress the judges with clever posts or use of the variant rules given each day. There will be no clarification on this particular point. This game is about having fun making shit up, not scoring points or paranoia. Whiners wanting detailed structure will be maimed accordingly.
Roster:
1. Oboro and Shnukims
2. Feral and Miguel
3. Aegis and Hoot
4. James and Bird
5. deadonthestreet and Fluffy Orange Thing.
6. Elldren and Skippy
7. duallin and Fluffers
8. Malkor and Crab
9. Daedalus and Clippy
10. visiblehowl and ChooChooBear
11. Kilroy and Clippy
12. eeccccoo tthhee ddoollpphhiinn and Kitty D. Kat
13. Variable and Kotchka
14. Medopine and Osh Kosh
15. BobCesca and Farah
16. Cyvros and Dibblin
17. Gosling and VEU
18. Arasaki and Barley
19. cj iwakura and Nemo
20. MrMonroe and Douglas
Entombed animal example:
If you don't hate cute animals you won't screw up.
Clarifications:
Any accent other than your own.Would those be accents other than your own, or any accent whatsoever? Or is the rule merely referring to grammatical accents?
What is a "three quarter shank"?
Or is it three "quarter shanks"? If so, what are those?
Shanks are a type of meat pie pound in the lower Brooklyn area that are excellent hobo bait.
Day five variant:
Lightning Round
No holds bar
Animal required for all pictures
Playing dirty is highly encouraged
The stage is Paris. Snobbery, wine, and arbitrary judging shall reign
Day 1: Barley pays up
Day 2: Oboro resigns and a tie results in dead kitties.
Day 3: Unfortunate events and grues.
Day 4: Light treason and dead geckos.
Day 5: Debauchery and police brutality.
Day 6: The Indecent Behavior of Owls.
Day 7: Lots of eating.
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I'm also going to invoke my status as a ranked player on the official circuit (http://morningtoncrescent.com/registry.php, look for 'Emily "Orthogonal" Watson,' there's a picture of me with my Bowler's Cup trophy you can match up to my Fashionstravaganza posts). As a ranked member of Crescent-Hoppers International, I reserve the right to hinge my participation on whether or not the Dictum of Three Lefts is in play.
Now, I'm sure you're well-aware of the game's rules, but maybe not of the floor rules, but in any event you can just consult the CHI organizer's manual to read up on the Dictum and whether it's appropriate for this particular showing of ye ol' Crescent. I trust you'll see the light of reason and be including it (is it part of fifth edition canon now? Apologies if it is, actually, I honestly don't know -- it's not my intent to be presumptuous), and in including it also allowing the participation of myself and any other registered CHI members.
EDIT: Oh, shit, right. That website is hosted purely on the Tube intranet, so ... short of anyone at the Tube Museum in London proper getting on one of the display computers, you won't be able to cross-reference that. I trust you trust me, though. I mean ... Emily "Orthogonal" Watson is pretty much a household name.
I've used up most of my wit for the day. I need to let my wit reserves recharge for a few hours from the energy emitted by the particular wavelength of light that passes through a glass of frosty beer.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
That is all.
It's awesome to play beside such a legend, slightly less-so when he's one of the officiators.
I see that your avatar is continuing your namesake, eh?
But I do still enjoy closing down a pub or two. Not a keeper from Welcome Inn to Llandoger Trow that can eject me before I've run the place dry. Ha-HA!
Never heard of this game, but it sounds fun. Here's to hoping I don't fail horribly.
Currently DMing: None
Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
Let's see how you hold up when the lights go off, and you're just another faceless sardine packed into that tube car hurtling through the underground. It seems simple enough to remember rules like, "traveling as the crow flies in weather not conducive to the flight of crows earns one demerit," but applying them under pressure, in the dark, while being catapulted forward at speeds of almost 110km/h in the company of other hoppers just as feverish and panicked as you?
Yeah, we'll see how you fare, freshie.
Which dollar? Some are better than others and I'd hate to come here using a crappy one.
Currently DMing: None
Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
I am pretty confident my cleverness will outclever the cleverness of my unclever opponents. I am a master of custom rules, and they will not throw me.
I fear, however, that I have a case of scurvy creeping up upon me and I may not be at my best for this competition. I will, however, grit it out.
Especially if Orthogonal is playing.
As far as sticking to the canon rules, the 5th edition clearly stipulates that when running a forum version the organizers may opt to use any one (and only one) of the variants presented in the Pendleton summary.
That said, the LMMCS bylaws require me to state that I am a fit player, of reasonable sanity, and willing and eager to abide by the rules and laws of the appropriate governing society for this particular game.
So, what is the governing society present?
a lot of good it did you guys there, right? e-7 to e-5, rofl
You will know if you are using an unofficial currency if and when you find yourself disqualified and branded
We have a virgin here, friends. How delicious.
[STRIKE]The Tuvaluan dollar.[/STRIKE]
Forget that I mentioned the Tuvaluan dollar.
Yes, yes, I know. Thank me later, plebs. For now, just bask in the glory that is Orthogonal ... once the game starts, you won't be able to do so for long.
Look, the LMMCS is a society! That's what the S is for. And the governing is mostly of it's members. That's what the bylaws are for.
You're just jealous you aren't a member of the nicest organization in international play.
You know full well the record cannot be stricken so easily.
Cliquish? You obviously haven't seen the game run well, or possibly at all.
So you're a Tuvaluan sleeper agent eh? How very interesting.
Currently DMing: None
Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
Crescent isn't for nice people. I don't just move Orthogonally, I kick asses on those same axes. Don't think I think twice about it.
And for all your sakes, let us hope that the notary republic is not asleep at inappropriate hours.
Currently DMing: None
Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
That's a significant advantage over the professional louts
Diagonal movement is superior.
The diagonal is the desperate invention of a man who couldn't be traveling in two directions at once. Emily Orthogonal changed all of that. Say what you will about diagonals in general, but no matter what I cede I'll always be an exception to the rule -- I never said that what I do would work for anyone else. I'm not going to make that claim.
Emily Orthogonal is Emily Orthogonal. No one else can do what I do. No one!! :x
Losing through winning My only chance and success (and failure).
I will think in an English accent to gain an edge.
Judgees caught judging is an instant forfeit
The activist group of ' '' ` ^ would like to formally declare their opposition to this repressive regime.
Currently DMing: None
Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12