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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 91 Brother Against Brother, is now posted.

Episode 91 Brother Against Brother

The last sky-pirate ship aloft rams the Watcher dreadnaught, and immediately the deadly infantry battle is joined across the burning and broken decks of the aerial ships. The Swift Death runs through the foe like hellfire, but the Dark Conquerors emerge from walls of flame with their shape-changing weapons agleam. The one-eyed giant Tlatoc steps forth for the final and deadly duel with his brother Grind. 

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 90 Ships of the Sixth Men, is now posted.

Episode 90 Ships of the Sixth Men

An unexpected ally rises from the deep, and the most monstrous of all posthuman races shows itself to be the most civilized, therefore the toughest. The omnipotent and invincible dreadnaught of the Watchers is halted in mid-flight, and the vengeance-mad Captain Grind Goldtooth orders his pirate warship of the air to ram the foe in a final and reckless ploy! 

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 89 Ever Defiant of Entropy, is now posted.

Episode 89 Ever Defiant of Entropy

Colonel Lost, longing for his true love, and Captain Grind, longing for fratricide, set off in hopeless pursuit of the swifter, larger air-fleet of the Watchers. A stern chase is a long chase! 

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 88 Ravage of the Red Tower, is now posted.

Episode 88 Ravage of the Red Tower

In this exciting episode, the Corsairs, led by Colonel Lost, once more turn to the attack, only to discover that the Eighth Men had another reason to launch assaults on the City of Swift Death than what seems. The invulnerable defenses of the city of corsairs are turned against her, and the Tower where Cynisca is safely ensconced is not safe at all.

Lost’s worst fears come to pass! Woe and alas! 

My trembling pen wilts above the tear stained manuscript! What author can continue such a tale of hopeless grief?! How terrible! There is no way for Colonel Lost to recover! What a horrible turn of events! Begin the lamentations! Let the virgins wail! Burn the viking ships!

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 87 Man is Man, is now posted.

Episode 87 Man is Man

In this exciting episode, unexpected allies, old enemies turned friend, make an appearance. Captain Grind faces a dread decision, perhaps beyond his moral strength to make: why should the final pirate captain of the doomed Corsair City continue the fight, when to flee with his loot is the more convenient and prudent course? What makes this, or any battle, worth the wounds, bloodshed, loss and death?

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 86 Decimated by the Dreadnought, is now posted.

Episode 86 Decimated by the Dreadnought

In this exciting episode, the eerie Eighth Men retaliate to the devastation wrought by Colonel Preston Lost and his Twenty-First Century weapons and tactics, replying with the superweapons of circa A.D. Twelve Million. Down from a dark heaven the warship Ever-Defiant-of-Entropy descends in her strength, like a warrior queen adorned for battle, fair as snowfall, deadly as hailstorms.  

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 85 Fall of the Fortress of Phthia, is now posted.

Episode 85 Fall of the Fortress of Phthia

In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost displays to the military men of a posthistoric age the advantages of gunpowder. All hell breaks loose. 

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 84 Death of the Dark Conquerors , is now posted.

Episode 84 Death of the Dark Conquerors

In this exciting episode, after long delay, Colonel Lost unleashes the horrific secret weapon of the Sudden Death of Threno. Yet this is not the sole weapon at the command of the man of the Third Millennium. 

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 83 The Seventh Men Strike, is now posted.

Episode 83 The Seventh Men Strike

In this exciting episode, unexpected allies unforeseen arrive in the last moment of defeat and reverse the fortunes of war! Why are the mighty beasts of battle trampling the golden men of Elelin? Who has summoned wind and whirlwind to vex and scatter the levitation vessels of the Watchers?  

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 82 War in The Wind, is now posted.

Episode 82 War in The Wind

In this exciting episode,  the sky-ships of the corsairs, after long delay, enter the aerial fray, and fill the sky with death! But now the foe commits its reserves: prehistoric man-eating birds, lumbering ungulants, giant ground sloths, and brontosaurs big as living fortresses afoot! Grind Goldtooth orders retreat, giving up the city for lost — but Preston recovers his hope, and sees a last, desperate chance! 

A reader named Zjerzy asked for a map of Threno. Unfortunately, unlike my map of Pangaea Ultima, which is, or, rather, will be, a real place for which ready made maps can be found, this result is crude.

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 81 Massacred by Morlocks, is now posted.

Episode 81 Massacred by Morlocks

In this exciting episode, his secret weapon, and all hope of victory, now gone, Colonel Lost, the Roman Legionnaires, and the exiled giant Grind Goldtooth, trapped aboard the wreckage of their crashlanded sky-pirate ship, must battle desperately in hand to hand combat against the overwhelming numbers of subterranean albino cannibals from the 8028th Century, who advance through clouds of poisonous gas with pincer-blades clashing and lunging! 

And yet what is the sudden alchemical apparition of fire, long forgotten since the days of the glory of Byzantium, which comes to the aid of the doomed corsairs? 

Is there evidence for Christ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHo-_VR_N50

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 80 The Skirmish on the Sky-Ship, is now posted.

Episode 80 The Skirmish on the Sky-Ship

In this exciting episode, The pirate warship of the air bearing Colonel Lost is rammed by a flying saucer, and is boarded. Colonel Lost, sword in hand, along with the Legionnaires of Rome, must fight giants! Then the sky-ship crashlands, the city gates are stormed, and all hope is lost.