And so it was a Sunday night at the Gentlemen's Club (well it is now modern times and ladies are members too) and in the Vin Room a group of members consisting of nouveau riches and old money sat down to discuss matters on trading and properties.
As the hour was already late with Sir Soldat arriving last after a family gathering, and thus discussions started quickly with everyone showing forth some properties rather than starting from scratch. Lady Lin, CEO of Lin Enterprises took the aggressive front and brought out..., had hotels built and proclaimed them ready to accomodate our needs. It's no surprise that Lin Enterprises is very focused on profit, and their company logo of a Sack Of Gold shows that just as much.
Much as Lady Lin calls the hotels the 'Mediterranean Avenue Hotel' and the 'Baltic Avenue Hotel', we all saw it for what it really was - accomodations for the ladies of the night. And to our shame a few of us were caught in Mediterranean Av. Hotel a fair number of times.
Soon enough negotiations began when all properties were revealed to belong to different members. Lord Lad and Viscount Vin settled into partnership for the development of Park Place and Broadwalk, negotiating on shares and development costs. At last a deal was struck with Viscount Vin managing the properties and Lord Lad taking a 40% cut from profits.
Sir Soldat suffered in the early stages as he owned the least properties and did not bargained well, but eventually struck a deal with Lady Lin when she gave him the rights to manage the Water Works in addition to the Electric Company which he already owns for a 50-50 partnership in the utilities monopoly.
Later then, in order to survive the upcoming influx of hotels, Sir Soldat agreed to join forces with Earl Otousan to build up St. James Place, Tenesee Av. and New York Av. Sir Soldat was given management for the properties as well, as Earl Avenue busied himself playing with trains, especially since he owned all the stations.
Datuk Shelton (pronounced 'Shell-Tan') Esteban also brokered a deal with Viscount Vin, predicting that Viscount Vin's properties would bring in good profits and it wasn't long before Kentucky Av., Indiana Av. and Illinois Av. (aka the Red Zone) sprouted hotels to lure the unwary. You could have imagine the scandal when Lady Lin was spotted in Hotel Indiana Avenue and unable to pay her rent!
You can see how the game is now played at the Gentlemen's Club. Gone are the days where the game is more on exclusive ownership - now the game has partners and shared ownership with the objective of bankrupting someone to end the game, haha.
8 comments:
Why am I not playing!
Prefer the Brit version though! Where is Piccadilly!
such an ancient game! one of the first board game ~ eh?
doesn't sound like the monopoly i know. is there shares now ala 18XX?
I have never finished a game of Monopoly I think.
at least this way the game will get finished. In Scrabble, most of you will be arguing about the validity of the words played.
Interesting! never knew it had changed that much. My first board was a reward for getting 1st place in class :) and I still have it now.
interesting way of putting it. but i get bored easily. phuh. not fun.
Savante: Let's play during Christmas!
Fable Frog: One of the early few we played, yes! :D
Aik Yong: There very well could be with house rules!
William: It would take ages to bankrupt someone unless hotels come up!
Henry Yeo: No, most of us would have died of brain drain thinking of words we think.
Jason: Cool! Introduce to friends and let the cutthroat experience begin!
Medie007: You won't be bored when you're charging rent and taking a walk on the Broadwalk!
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